just asking  I think a lot of potential customers nowadays check online reviews before deciding whether to do business with a company or buy a product.

One big help is that a broker's license is basically required nowadays is to do property management so you are earning income outside of the brokerage.Being a full time realtor would make you eligible as a real estate professional.

That said, online banking is pretty mainstream nowadays and most banks do it well.

Nowadays a quick video with a smartphone is simple enough to make. 

Even flippers nowadays are targeting high end projects in order to make a nice spread.The 1100-1500 rental will remain in high demand for the foreseeable future.

They're less common nowadays but still exist.

Particularly nowadays we all should be earning our dues.

10% returns are a lot harder to find nowadays.

My thought is that if a neighborhood were treated like any other product to be sold, it could be actively marketed to create buzz and entice more people to visit, move into, and invest. 

Nowadays the prices generally rise to above what an investor would be interested to pay for a property, though sometimes properties will come back to auction quickly for follow-up rounds since either Auction.com placed a bid for the seller and bid it up too much, or it didn't meet a high reserve (which is almost always well above the stated starting price), or the auction winner didn't perform.