thing was a line that baby boomers needed to be fed to get them to stop opening new Macys and Target cards every time they walked in to "save 5% today!"

When the 100k income earner gets layed off...they will likely cut the gardner and cut thier own grass. 

Look for junky houses (tall grass, overgrown landscaping, bad roofs, grass growing in driveway, emptiness through windows) combined with no garbage out.

The Fed raises the interest rates in an attempt to hit the breaks.

Ok before I went on vacation I was at the house unclogging the sink, the house was a dizaster pencil and crayon markings on every single wall in every single room and hallway, the privacy fence had spray paint all over it, the deck had the same spray paint where her kid was spray painting his toy guns, there was a mattress leaning against the fence, a mountain of trash, door handles broke in one of the bedrooms, grass hasn't been cut since she moved in. 

There were some plastic planter boxes on the ground and an open bag of soil on a deck box, a bottle of insecticide in the grass where I fell and 2 partially empty water bottles thanks to kids.

The kid that cuts the grass for my company makes more than $10/hour.2.

Thus, I would assume @ 31% (25% Fed and 5.75% VA)" for flipping.  

I was looking for overgrown grass and dilapidated appearance mainly.

Where we live (a set from the Stepford Wives), I'm sure that the city would be finding that our grass was 1/8" too long or some such nonsense if we rented to S8!