That may also be an avenue for you to explore.

Doesn't seem to be an issue. 

Take your time learning here and try taking some local real estate investors out for coffee/lunch/dinner and picking their brains.

To qualify, a home must meet the definition of a residence homestead: The home's owner must be an individual (for example: not a corporation or other business entity) and use the home as his or her principal residence on January 1 of the tax year.

The others have chimed in already, but a little piece of advice that I have for you if you intend to be an investor friendly agent is to start building up a basic knowledge of both landlording and flipping.

This often may be an intensely heated subject.

My guess is it has to be an arm's-length transaction but I am no VA loan expert.  

To this detective he knew this could be an estate or probate sale and the home could be owned free and clear with motivated heirs. 6.

They are too expensive to be considered as buy and holds, so this all came about in a conversation over coffee.  

I think you may just have been talking with someone with a poor grasp of prepositions.Here's a quick bit on townhouse firewalls: http://www.inman.com/2013/01/29/is-your-townhomes-firewall-code/I'm no expert, but I don't think this would be an expensive or complicated thing to address.