We explained this scheme by banks to limit the amount of available for sale inventory as follows: "since the properties not entering the foreclosure pipeline are effectively kept out of inventory, even shadow inventory, and thus the distressed end market, the monthly drop in foreclosures has acted as a form of subsidy to the housing market, as month after month less inventory than otherwise should, enters the market....

Craigslist is pretty effective!

I'd confirm it doesn't have a ripple effect on insulation, sheetrock, trim, etc. and that's the full cost of the change so you know how much contingency you've chewed thru.

I recommended actively changing the environment around him, which he isn't the rightful owner of, to effectively make the shed an undesirable residence.

For fun/exercise I might fix up a single run-down property at a time myself to either hold or flip.

That could really effect what you're able to build as far as structure and density are concerned.

However, when they do contact you they require all of the properties you have done and related entities since the law took effect."

Warran Buffett: It's a way, in effect, to short the dollar because you can take a 30-year mortgage and if it turns out rates rise, the other guy's stuck with it for 30 years.

And Mel Watt is now the effective head of both.

Efficient and cost effective strategy.