Mortgage or bank fraud is different from civil  or criminal customary fraud matters where intent for some financial gain might be required.

A) Proactive year-round tax planning & strategiesB) Maximizing retirement plans and investmentsC) Financially planning to intentionally free up your time and do more of what you enjoyD) Real estate investment Analysis & StrategiesE) Business Planning & Practice Management to help you drive revenues/reduce expenses

You are basically giving the seller the "illusion" of buying there house, when in reality, you have no intention of closing on it yourself.

If you feel you must alter the terms of the lease, consider:if you announce your intentions to all at the same time, you're likely to get a mass exodus.consider staging the notices one per month starting with the lowest rentsIf they bolt, you can cleanup and re-rent as you please. 

Intent is evaluated on a property by property basis.

But I have some questions.......1)If my intention is to flip, is there anyway around being considered a dealer as opposed to an investor especially if I don't intend for that to be my primary source of income?

Intent is more important than length of time held, and if the intent is to flip, it's not capital gains, regardless of whether you held one month, one year or 20 years...

This situation is what causes people here on BP to go off on wholesalers who write purchase contracts with no intention or ability to perform on the purchase.  

Our intent is to reenter the real estate business, probably focusing on mid- to up-market rehabs and teardowns.

The Mortgagee can ask for lift of the stay in the event the borrower has made intention in the plan to surrender the property.