As millennials, like myself, graduate and as technology and real estate continue to intertwine, this seems like a great idea to me.

NC is known for it's mill town cities and a lot are turning around with the millennial's looking for something small and close to all the amenities. 

The rental trend is long and has several contributors not just millennials, but downsizing boomers which is a growing contributor not on the tail end here.

I read an article from Business insiders: The American suburbs as we know them are dyingIt's very interesting and basically talks about how the Suburbs are changing, malls are becoming ghost towns, and Millennials are move to more urban and efficient living spaces in denser areas where walkability is a benefit.Of course if all of this is true, buying into major cities ahead of the migration of younger people seems like an excellent strategy.In fact, we see this all the time and contributes towards a process of gentrification.

The ones in my area generally refer to their VRBO number as I do.I refresh the add every few days to keep it towards the top of the search results.Since it is free it is a no brainer for me to use even if it only generates one lead a year.I also sometimes get someone that just wants to send me a check months ahead of their desired reservation and I have no problem with this either.My perception is that people using VRBO are middle aged people that don't mind spending money on a nice place.The inquires I get from AirBnB are more of the millennial crowd that may not have as much to spend as someone in the peak of their earning potential.

For 2016, these were the top 10 real estate markets to watch.https://www.trulia.com/blog/10-hot-real-estate-markets-to-watch-in-2016/They looked at five metrics: strong job growth over the past year, low vacancy rates, high affordability, more inbound home searches than outbound, and a large share of millennials.

Video Games Are Often Hated On and this doesn't help in terms of your real $100, but I would point out that most of my (also millennial-age) friends who are entrepreneurial souls got their start in MMO (basically means people playing together) video games online where a vivid "marketplace" economy allowed your character to work in trades, sell goods, and make profits.

I'd love to know what sort of neighborhoods are the most up and coming for those millennial out of towner types like myself.

I'm a millennial in the internet age, so I'm just not familiar with it.

Direct mail strategies, how to market to millennials, new financing products, etc.