@Nathan BrooksI am not local to Richmond, but have several clients who work in that market.Welcome to the community and be ready for a huge amount of information at your finger tips.

Can a Freddie Mac home be purchased as a rental, BRRRR, or fix & flip?

That's a great idea!

Quote from @Monish Anand: I'm a fan of the low prices and my plan is to STR since I currently run a short term rental business.

But 1000$ to find a hard money lender, or find a deal you want to lend to seems pricy.

@Shuvrajit Mukherjee - You have to be able to scrape that data from some where pretty easy...a lot of that property specific info is public record.There is a website called chicago cityscape...I am decent friends with the founder....it is sourcing a ton of data that might help. 

We are looking to purchase a fix and flip.

I would think about having a local broker/agent give you a BPO on it and see what the number comes back in at..Think this might be where Chris was going, but depending on your area and what sales look like in the end of the year months, usually sales are a lot slower, that might be a driving factor.

That is luck.Now, for every 5000 mailers you send (let's say) you get a deal.That is a 99.98% failure rate.

And 2, that the property with 100k down will have a 400k mortgage and will net you 5k a year.