As the industry confuses, mixes, and interchanges the two distinctly different home types frequently, I do as well.

That’s why I made a distinction by saying most are incompetent and of little help to “ investors” .in my little experience  Realtors are great if your looking a single family  dream home for your family to live in .. but  my thing was from an investors vantage point there are other ways and it would do the poster well to use a variety of methods on his own instead of relying on a commission based system 

@Bonnie Low Rural vs middle of nowhere is a good distinction.

It's a minor difference but an important distinction

Because each market is different and adjustments are based on the each distinct market.

I'm not sure... as Baltimore has such distinct neighborhoods that abut each other.Your point is well taken about the different building styles. 

The following is what I found from Fannie Mac, which makes a clear distinction between short sale and pre-foreclosure.

You won half of the battle when you understand that there is a big distinction between someone wanting to sell a property versus someone that needs to sell a property.

Distinct advantage.

The distinction is, if they pay their rent but not the damages.