A friend of mine had a landscaper randomly do work on their property while they were out of town without being hired.

Brokered a client this 5br 2ba house in Portage Park neighborhood of Chicago but the cheaper less nice side of town for $350,000.

Just last night I was having a hard time finding rent data on a smaller market and Googled *town name, apartments for rent, and got a few listings that weren’t on the main sites.

Rent Like A Champion:Specializes in STRs near college towns and big event areas.

It's a cool town. 

Eugene is a very small town of around 200k+ people.

It was a pretty beaten up Duplex in an area of the town that I was told it is a "C" neighborhood by a local RE agent. 

I’ve been hitting dead ends as far as finding funding options being an out of town investor in the Pittsburgh area.

Typically where the builder goes into a smaller town or area build a small phase and then moves out to another county or town leaving not many new builds in that area to offer new future construction home sales.

One is in the country, one is in town, etc.