I'm in Leominster, MA a city of about 45K people about an hour west of Boston.

At this point, with the amount of stuff they had in the house and considering they had nowhere lined up to go and no transportation, I felt it was prudent to allow a couple more weeks so I gave them till the end of June.

I have two properties I'm looking at but both need to be built. One is raw land and the other is a decrepit house that need to be demoed first. I have a potential cash partner if I can present a good enough case. I pl...

Then I went a bit overboard thinking it would be pretty awesome to transport that house using balloons.

I'd be crazy to think that new models wouldn't arise, but I certainly don't know what those models are (just like I couldn't predict new methods of communication (the Internet), new methods of shared transport (Uber) or new methods of short-stay housing (AirBnB)). 

Just to add to this,  I think it depends on your area,  if you live in a larger city with a lot of jobs/transportation then as others mentioned the cash flow may not be as great.  

I use NE Design and they are in Boston but they do ship nationwide...

I am originally from Boston, and would like to get a better idea of the investment opportunities in the area.  

Yea, one of my colleagues is doing condo conversions in Boston area with great success, but in Boston the market is so hot that you can't really go wrong.

If you have no regular place of work but ordinarily work in the metropolitan area where you live, you can deduct daily transportation costs between home and a temporary work site outside that metropolitan area.