He is victimizing a seller.  

One of the recent potential victims sent me the email communication she was having with the "owner" of the property.  

I don't see any banners on the TK companies websites pointing out these potential pit falls. and you buy a home and its your home that is screwed up and your only out is to sell to someone like you who is going to hammer on the fact that its a failed foundation and its going to cost thousand to fix ... sorry you paid 100k for it 2 years ago but I can offer you 50k today because of your foundation issue..

I currently live in Falls Church, VA (suburbs of Washington, DC) and am planning to get into flip business in the DMV area.

It looks the feds are now considering a mortgage collateralized by a residence (SFRs and 1-4s) as a consumer loan that falls under the Dodd Frank regs.....regardless of occupancy of the buyer.  

It should be expected that these areas would have the biggest gains as they are the areas that took the biggest falls during the downturn

Unless it's free money that just falls out of the sky, yes.

I don't view the first as coming down in price just because you fall into second position, so the first becomes a bit of a static number and you have to work on the second as the variable.  

If the property is "up north" you might have more luck renting to snowmobilers but they can me rougher tenants and that market is entirely dependent on snow fall.  

All of our properties fall under one commercial property policy.