While most flipper would give advice on the technicality, i would say flip reward/risk is created when you purchase and the future market trajectory based on external factor, such as inventory and/or future interest rate movement. 

Per the IRS web site ...

I’m a software engineer (frontend web dev) working remotely in Berryville VA.

There are too many external forces right now to guess what will happen - what will fed do, what will congress do, what will happen globally.

This is a fall of 13% so far.The lack of coherent thinking in the text of the article contrasts with the interview with Ara Hovnanian that appears on the same web page.

When the buyers scatter, you need to look at external factors as well. 

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It would be a match up.hot dogs vs hamburger.bread vs frosted flakes.a pound of butter vs a pile of miracle whip.fajita meat vs chicken breasts.etc.I'd take a picture and post these food competitions on the web and people would vote on what gets eaten first and what animal would eat it first. 

It’s an negative externality aside for maintaining the property.

The Washington trespass statute specifies: “In any prosecution under RCW 9A.52.070 and 9A.52.080, it is a defense that: (1) A building involved in an offense under RCW 9A.52.070 was abandoned; …”The other links to Cornell University web pages that you provided about Real Property or Adverse Possession do not discuss nor even use the words abandon or abandoned.