I recently started getting into land flipping, so I don't have concrete answers to all your questions, but can pass along what I do know or have observed so far.1.

As residents of South Forsyth County for the past 9 years, my wife and I have observed many of the same phenomenons that you and others have described with both demographic changes and school performance in previous posts.

All of the above, together that this was a $248 cash out of $263K loan situation would convince most observers that the borrow doesn't--and probably didn't--plan to pay.But the real points here are these:1.

But truth be told, we can only observe and make reasonable assumptions.

If it's a matter of winning bids, I have won several on HUBZU, however, I always wondered the same thing as to whether the bidding war is against other real bidders or simply the site operators. at least with HUBZU, no such abnormalities were observed, where the rules say $5k increments but a winning bidder does it by $1k :-)

I want to formally introduce myself after years as a casual observer. 

A few observations.

I'm not saying it's a bad move, and this was just my single observation.

(How creative, LOL...ask me how the city of NOVI was got their name).Now, if you looked at this info above, most outside observers could come to a rational conclusion about property values, areas to buy for rentals,...flip, and so on...and, most would be wrong. 

I just want to observe and get experience on the process.