It also affected vacation patterns, with people choosing states like Texas with less restrictions.

At this point I am trying to do the "Who, not How" approach, but I admit to mixed results (it is hard to break the pattern of doing everything you have the skills to do). 

That said, IMO there is zero excuse for doing poor quality work whether you're laying Italian marble or cheap vinyl.It's really not hard to make low-end materials look nice and fresh for long enough to satisfy a new tenant.

Their thinking is that this person may have a pattern of reckless, irresponsible behavior if they have a lot of speeding tickets.

While class C SF/MF would be supported by migration young-folks pattern (they are also GenZ but from different country). 

You can also see why we as tax professionals are really compelled to use general language like "it depends" etc to fact patterns and questions, especially on these public forums where often times there are assumptions that have to be made and maybe only partial information is provided.

I've never purchased a HUD property before and was curious about any potential patterns or rules of thumb regarding accepted offers.

I don't know about this cap rate projection, at least in CRe-Retail we project out a 10 basis point rise in cap rate for each year the property ages, so the Cap rate may be 5.5% assuming interest rates don't budge, (probably heading higher as US Govt has to deleverage its last 40yr debt run-up, like we did between '45 and '82, and we did again btwn 1899-1920, same 30-40 pattern going back to mid-1800s)I watched all their videos/podcasts/available webinars.

Spatial analysis comes in handy with  real estate for looking at spatial patterns and trends although I know the crappiest parts of the world probably better than the  United States.

See a pattern emerge?