Quote from @Vince Scipione: Yes, they are a popular choice where I live and work, however with the ever fluctuating cost of oil heat, many people have swapped over their boilers/furnaces to what is called a "Propane Gun" essentially it is a device that is affixed to the front of the furnace/boiler that injects the propane and ignites it.

Also Mid-Term Rentals to traveling professionals, people displaced for insurance reasons, or doing a renovation to their home and needing a place to live for  3 months or more are also possibilities.

Starting to get competitive though for investment properties because of that reason you have more and more people entering the market from out of state.

It is an amazing city with great people and plenty of opportunities in the real estate space.

As long as it meets "minimum" size standards it can look like a broom closet and be considered a bedroom... ridiculous, but it's out there, and in a tight market people will pay for it... 

I haven't heard of any, but met with a few people in the twin cities last year.

(The same reason many people (maybe mostly men?)

There are plenty of people looking to deploy cash into real estate but don’t have the knowledge or bandwidth to run a successful flip or BRRRR.

It's slower, but patient people tend to make wise investments.

Now here is some advice many will disagree with me on but I firmly committed to this:  Most people that use a VA loan shouldn't.