If you're curious, I'm looking around Greenville, North Carolina, which is home to a decent sized university and a popular hospital. 

State Farm offers it regardless of breed.OH man your going to be very popular with your fellow owners directly next to you.. but i get the Niche  .. and maybe in the right setting IE homes that are on a more rural type area and larger lots.. etc..

Facebook groups are popular or certain websites are used as well.Our company has grown so large we get inqiuries from the following:-Facebook groups-Our Instagram page-Our website-The school advertising site-A secondary site-Word of mouth-Our property management signs

It's called Landlord's Cash Flow Analyzer Pro and it costs $99.95 (it includes everything but the IRA module).https://www.rentalsoftware.com/real-estate-investing-software-features/Another really popular one that a lot of syndicators use is Syndicated Deal Analyzer, which was created by Michael Blank. 

Absentee Owners have been popular for a long time, and are apparently still somewhat effective (people are still mailing to them) but they are getting multiple offers to buy their home.

Yes there is, it will typically be in the form of an unsecured personal Line of Credit or the most popular of Credit card stacking and cashing them out to use the cash to purchase homes. 

I assumed you were talking about the BWI meetup as that one seems really popular.

And that's why buy/hold/rent is so popular among REI's.

The popular POV is to leverage as much as possible.

It's close to shopping and 5 minutes away from a very popular beach/tourist area/vacation spot.