We run as many legitimate expenses through the company as possible... health care, car payments, car insurance,  company lunches (1/2 credit for taxes on those), telephones, internet, and this year even our annual meeting of our corporation (of 2 employees!!) 

If you want "steal deals" you could employee a number of tactics but this will definitely be slower than traditional purchases.  

I had worked at Long and Foster, a traditional Brokerage in Washington DC for 15 years and they also had a full-time only policy.

You are right about most of the Facebook employees not being in that market, but there is a need for affordable housing in central Oregon in general and as people move out of Bend/Redmond, Prineville seems to be where lots of them are looking.I’m hoping to get copy off the inspection that was done recently as I’m guessing there is definitely some deferred maintenance that needs done as well.

This sounds like a question for @Dave Foster

@Dave Foster, will that also work for land, if you 1031 & purchase a land/lot , keep for two years , & then decide to utilize for personal purpose. 

I explained the win-win of their employees not being involved, gave them the inexpensive cost of my proposition, but they always say "We'll get back to you" and then never call back.The area I lived in before had a fair and equitable system where you contacted the state, sent your payment to them and they held it in escrow until the landlord complied.

@Brandon RibeiroI get it jump in 100%...when I first started we were fostering 9 kids had three of our own...

-for W2 employees the bank basically takes their gross monthly income, they cut it in half and then half the monthly income has to cover the monthly bills on the credit report, and the new payment.So getting approved for a mortgage is all about fitting a payment into your budget and then that payment will translate to a loan amountThis is in just simple terms, For self employed people the bank goes off the net on your tax returns (averages it over 2 years) and then find the average monthly net income and then that is the income used to qualifyBut because of covid, the bank for self employed people are requiring a year to date P&L, then they will use the income made this year to determine what you can use to qualify with. 

Hospital workers, and other essential services, retired folks who also have a pension, employees who can work from home, many government employees.