The primary reasons being the recent openings of large steel manufacturering and automotive assembly plants.

I think a lot of investors are revisiting what their assembly line looks like.

Interestingly, if you start as an investor by assembling a comprehensive underwriting package for a potential funding source, you'll learn a lot in the process because you'll be researching sales comps, rental comps, packaging scope of rehab work, assessing and communicating risks, budgeting and turn-time forecasting, and considering worst-case scenarios.

Privacy laws in Canada are a little more stringent and do not allow for the assembly and sale of such information without explicit consent (which is seldom forthcoming).

Be careful, I went to a class in April presented by the Hampton Roads Realtors Association, and We had Chip Dicks an Attorney from Richmond ( he helps write new legislation for the general assembly) come and speak to us on the changes in the laws, and one of the things that they hammered on was the Airbnb.  

I looked at an SFR in southeast Wisconsin that superficially looked like a good deal, but on further examination the structure itself appears to be a "prefab" house, i.e. the type of house that was built in a factory somewhere and then trucked to its final location for assembly and installation of mechanical systems.  

I am weighing the pros and cons of different size DADU buildings as well as pre fab units that are assembled on location versus traditional building methods. 

A lot of agents assemble a database (over time) of investors that are always looking.

You also have a ton of ways to find information/reviews to assemble your team.

Real estate isn't an assembly line, it is not a statistically valid process, it is not a liquid asset or market.