Obama library, casino, etc.) in conjunction with affordable prices and no rent control regulations. 

Do the experts here think the real estate values will explode with the arrival of a casino in Madera, CA?

There are some lenders nowadays that will lend to non-entities.

In reality, SEO (in terms of optimizing your pages) is only a small piece of the puzzle nowadays.

For #5, note that there are nowadays "tech startup" solutions to financing one's primary residence (see Unison and Point.com), but the money comes from private institutions or private sources--the money is not "crowdfunded" for many reasons--in part, because there are a lot of strange privacy issues (imagine if your home was partially owned by 50 other people.

mainly to have something to do if I find myself board on a rainy day in PDX which is pretty often... also I don't generally drive at night so I would only work mornings for a drive or two.. when I take Lyft in Vegas I talk to the drivers most really don't like the night or pick up or delivery from casino as the riders are half the time pretty wasted.I use it in Vegas to from our kids house and the airport.. so that's a pretty easy drive for the Lyft driver . as well as I live in the number one income area of our state so if I only take rides out of this area I should pick up some successful people and we can talk business if it gets to that..

If he is not he should be .. then he can see its nit all biscuits and gravey .. it takes hard , hard .. work to make it in the business .. people nowadays watch a TV show and think ..hum.. i can do that .. and most can but they have no idea how things can go wrong so quickly .. and costs.. dont even get me started on the possibility of overages .. and hidden damage ..

There is a good amount of competition nowadays in the campus town area with all the new units built over the last 5 years and if you don't already have leases on all the units you could be looking at some vacancy for the first year of ownership.  

Hope it's not like going to the Casino and hitting it on your first slot roll. 

It's like going to a casino.