Contract for Deed is popular here now and well its hard to make money on the deal if your deal goes to the court house steps.

South Shore has always been a bit more popular to invest in, because of its proximity to Lake Michigan. 

I'm not personally familiar with the OR market, but the South and Midwest and popular regions for REI, as you'll see in the forums. 

Mid-term rentals are a popular strategy.

I don't think that many people on BiggerPockets have the money or the willingness to do that and, if they do, they have access to much better resources than the Global Property Guide website.If you want to get great cash flow and capital gains, you'd invest in places that are popular with tourists and where properties are relatively cheap and you'd rent them as holiday rentals.

Hi due to the rising popularity of sites like 'duproprio' where homeowners can list their buildings directly, i was wondering if anyone know how to make an offer without going through a real estate agent? 

Almost none of these places are in the list, even though they're more popular  for real estate investment than most that are in the list.2.

For the reason Jon pointed out above, his popularity is due to the fact that most people are living pay check to pay check to pay off that truck which is worth 8 month's of their salary!

However, seller financing is very popular here in the DFW area and I think that would work on a build to seller-finance business model.

That book is an insanely popular motivational pamphlet and not much more.