Flood owner's insurance is practically  a business in itself, there is a great video by Jon Oliver on last week tonight detailing how this works, I highly recommend it. 

The short term rental space is becoming very popular and a good chunk of my clients are actively involved.

Check out some of his blogs, videos and books.

If it copies the development trajectory of Chicago, then I would expect further urban growth as older neighborhoods return to popularity. 

In his YouTube videos he makes it seem so simple to find a house with equity then quickly flip it to purchase another house.

if your an accredited investor the syndication approach is one that is quite popular.. and of course those deals the sponsor frankly is more important than the asset most of the time. a poor operator can ruin a good project a great operator can save a struggly project or one that has some bumps in the road.crowdfunding is an option one thing though that I don't like about crowdfunding at least on smaller debt deals is there is a huge heard mentality and the debt deals once posted sometimes are subscribed in 30 minutes.. no way anyone can do due diligence on those.. its like throwing darts at a board..

Now that's a popular (and difficult) question.Properties like that aren't on the MLS every day (or even month).

This can be anyone with a camera and basic real estate knowledge. before you pay your contractors schedule this person to take pics and shoot video of your property to be sure your contractor has done everything they are requesting funding for.

Popular rule of thumb around here is that 50% of the gross rents will go to vacancy, expenses and capex. 

I will send you over my video we made on wasp st. today for you to check out.