He should learn to invest locally, rig up his own lottery that he can actually win, and become a rock star.

Or commercial printers rigging the paper cutter safety switch to free up one hand so they can work a bit faster.

To unlock a door and fill out the same cookie cutter contract with a new address for each offer?

I saw an interesting thing the other day and am curious if others have seen it too and know how to set it up: some vacation rental PM rigged it up so that their vacation rental properties show up on Google maps, just like a restaurant, hotel, or other business.

You would not have cookie cutter apartments, it is likely you would have units per floor and fire separation might be difficult as well as utilities.  

.* improvement in my spouses RE brokerage due to REOs* increased rents received and lower mortgage payments* the fact that Dallas did not have a housing bubble and thus the correction has been mild* having never invested in the rigged casino, err - I mean US stock markets.

I was first stationed in Virginia and did 9 deployments all over the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic, and Pacific on a 270' Cutter for 2.5 years doing drug and migrant interdiction. 6 months of aviation maintenance school followed and afterwards, I transferred to my first and final aviation unit in Cape Cod, MA on H60 Jayhawk Helicopters.

FTHB don't know that I'm beating them up early for their own good (even if it's a cookie cutter deal, they're going to have enough on their plate with inspections, etc, that they will be glad I took this mountain of paperwork OFF their plate early on), but people that have owned homes before get pissed at me and say "WTF, we're not even in contract yet?!"

I work on a drilling rig in Milne Point, my employer just signed a contract with Hilcorp to drill 9 wells.

Zillow in my opinion is good only in the cookie cutter neighborhoods.