The "half assed rent collectors" you alluded to - while I don't advocate for that approach, and it's not what we do - have figured out that there is a market for exactly what they are doing.The real question is, is there a market for what you're proposing?  

The pandemic spurred a multifamily construction boom (condos, apartments, townhomes etc.).

I guess that was what you get from a China fuel commodity boom over the past decade.I would not buy a property there for all the Vegemite in the world!

Funny that we've been conditioned to expect everything to be "boom or bust".....exactly the wide economic cycles that the Federal Reserve was created to prevent.

Then you basically put the panels together in order, install the doors, the truss system, sheathing, and boom, a watertight frame.Concept is that you can go from zero to frames in a week or so, instead of several.I have a lot here in the Central Texas area that I'm trying to figure out how to develop and the price point for the area proves to be a little challenging.

If we want to grow up and become a functioning metro instead of Seattle's little sister, are we blindly chasing the low lying fruit that comes from the population boom and not thinking long term?

Columbus seems to be continuing to be booming with home value appreciation so I do hope you all are getting a piece of the pie. 

@Donny Smith,Have you tried the county collector's office / website?

I could go rite down the road to Northside where there is a bit of a boom going on, but the housing stock is mostly much older. 

The boom we are seeing now similarly is the result of the federal governments attempt to prop up the mortgage market by buying up loans that Wall Street bought a decade or so ago.