I was told that the producers of the show got very annoyed because the work at one of the houses was going very smoothly and there was no drama, so they manufactured a "water problem" to get things a bit more interesting.

I looked at all the window manufacturers and decided to go with the Viewpoint window from Lisbon Screen and Door.

There are also opportunities to set up your own second units on acreage properties -- normally by moving a used manufactured home onto a permanent foundation.  

And city was also known as a hard working manufacturing city, but many of those large organizations have long since left Rockford.

What type of product is being built in each submarket (e.g. distrubitution vs. flex vs. manufacturing etc.)?

A $100k purchase in King or Pierce county seems to suggest a manufactured/mobile home.If they need some cash now and you need some time to figure out your financing for the entire purchase, a lease option may also work (instead of seller financing), and you can give them some money up front as a deposit to help with their cash needs.

Hospitals, manufacturing tied to GM, colleges/universities, and government jobs.  

Also read Manufactured Insecurity by Dr.

If it's in a lower income area, you might be able to do a manufactured home on a permanent foundation.

It remains to be seen whether this will take off or not, but there is a major $1bn state of the art processing chip manufacturing facility that was completed in the last 3 years or so up there, and SUNY Albany is pouring resources into nano tech.