Finding or negotiating qualified contractors among the different home repair groups helps. 

Portland, Oakland, Brooklyn, and my own Jersey City are among the latter, driven by real gentrification and demographic change.

They are re-sellers.They post a house for showing one day only, limited window of time to see it (I’ve seen less than 30 minutes so you have no time for inspections), specify no contingencies will be considered, require large earnest deposit and want a considerable amount over what they have contracted with the seller.This creates a frenzy and urgency among the buyers as they see the crowds crawling all over the property during this viewing period.

Also, don't forget the network you will be building there among the classmates.

Odds are all the seller will do is get a handyman to get up on that roof and diddle around with his caulking gun loaded with roofing cement among the existing shingles.

Seattle also caused some of the problem with their minimum wage laws, the job losses among the struggling class were devastating. 

Cleveland and the Quad Cities are among the most affordable markets.

I realize that real estate laws vary widely among the 50 states but could you please cite your source for them being fraudulent.  

The trick is to find the diamonds among the coal.

That would be restraint of competition among the cable/satellite providers.