For example, in Jersey City, it's Cat Paradise...and if you leave food and temporary shelter in your backyard for them, they will come and spray the wall to mark their turf.

Key syndicators can come in a variety of roles from lending their portfolios to shore up lender net worth requirements, to bringing significant cash to the table, to bringing other investors in (what I do), or that have experience in flipping / syndicating homes that can help shore up gaps, gain credibility to accelerate your growth.  

Besides the south shore, Lowell, Lynn, that area too...

Tapping into our own and our networks' expertise, consider holding seminar(s), online and/or in person to provide information on things like:-  involving our favorite real estate agents to give people general guidance on:-  where/how to find long-term temporary housing or purchase a new home, and what they can do with lots they may not want to rebuild on-  how to know what fair market value is right now for purchases-  providing guidance on how to watch out for the scavengers that may surface. 

Seems like who can boast the most about their Midwest location...LOL6 professional sports teams, regional health care center in a 4 state area, federal reserve is up in KC, more shore line on lakes than the Pacific coast in Cali, oh, and I live in the area, LOLHere's an odd stat, most who moved out of MO a few years ago moved to Cali and then, most who moved out of CA moved to MO, guess they decided to come back.....actually not, more moved out of CA and came to MO.Center of the US population is about 50 miles east of me.To housing, it's pretty affordable, tons of 3/2s 90 to 120K, but you can certainly go up, one of (or the) largest home owner occupied is about 10 miles south of me, some tech billionaire building a rock castle.Look for a diversified economy, health, education, manufacturing, tech, financial services and retail to drive your economy, pretty well in that order and growing here.I also think we'll see much smaller less expensive homes built in the future especially in more rural areas, post WWII tract houses, 1,000 - 1,200 sq ft.

There are lots of other ones all up and down the North and South Shore as well.

Understand your point about its desirability from a temporary user (rental) perspective.

Hey AllNew investor/flipper here from the Jersey Shore area (working with my family).  

The schools are lower on their list for the exact reason they are renting- its temporary.

Why should you have to spend time doing a temporary repair to hold them until you do a permanent repair with your own time for their negligence?