You get a bit of a rental boom when people can't live in homes anymore, etc but as soon as the flood starts to plateau people will shop around.Also a lot of people are now moving out of Michigan, granted not everyone will move out, but that should also play into things.

The reason why these homes are great is they were built during the Las Vegas boom from 2003-2006.

Tampa (Central West Florida) is booming right now with hundreds of cash purchases.

As the real estate market boomed the last couple of years, the locations for some housing developments started to become really whacky; out in the middle of nowhere, down one lane roads, and with the barest of infrastructures, housing tracts sprung up like mushrooms after a rain storm.

Multi family real estate is booming right now because many people who were owners at one point in time are now being forced into renting.  

Forbes ranked San Antonio as one of the next boom towns (Jan, 2016 link below).http://sanantonio.culturemap.com/news/city-life/01...

Find the treasurer/tax-collectors website and you can poke through there.  

Then if he likes it, boom: you now have a real estate mentor and you just rinse and repeat moving forward.It doesn't matter if you're new to the game or not, we all can gain from having someone help coach us to the next level.  

Make enough during the booms to cover your losses when you get stuck;2. 

Google "TOWN, TX TAX COLLECTOR" or perhaps its done by county in texas.