Note that it is my impression the maintenance is lower due to factors such as no need for house electric, tenants shovel their own driveway and mow the lawn, more straightforward construction and usually better designed heating systems.

Simple rules apply - like don't let your day laborers near anything more expensive than a shovel, and nothing smaller than the same.

My services could be anything from unclogging a toilet, changing brakes on your vehicle, or mowing your lawn/shoveling your driveway.

a developer by definition does not buy shovel ready lots for SFR contruction.. that would be a builder.a developer in the SFR realm creates the subdivision and sells lots to the builders or builds it out themselves.in the commercial world a developer will buy shovel ready and develop a commercial site.that's kind of how I view it.. its semantics for sure

Do they reside FL? Are

what part of FL are you in?

My post just offered more of a, as the saying goes, "Don't Dig For Gold, Sell the Shovel" kind of option that no one else put forth.

Childhood - cut lawns, shoveled snow, baby-sat, cleaned and painted my mom's apt. houses, had a bait stand at the lake (to make gas money for the boat and water-skiing), lied about my age at 15 to get a cashier job for 30hrs/week in high school, had a full-time summer job and worked another 30 hrs all through college.

@Steve BabiakMost courthouse/foreclosure auctions in FL are hosted online nowadays, so generally all the data is posted on the hosts websites.  

However, I happen to like 300+ days of sunshine and I'm proud of the fact that I don't own a snow shovel.