1. When you buy a foreclosure or other home, even if the sale price is less, you usually have to come out of pocket 20% plus closing costs. On a $300k home, that is $60k, who else is going to cover your down payment? This allows you to buy more investment properties while the market is down.
2. A new home is less likely to have problems, so no immediate maintenance costs. You know a foreclosure is going to need work before you can turn it into an investment.
3. New homes with new appliances and fixtures are more desirable to renters.

The difficulty when buying land in a high market, but selling in a low market is it makes it difficult to regain actual costs. 

However, when this program proves successful, I will open up 3-5 more Manassas lots and 7-9 more Quantico lots for this program.