http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/07/garden/small-scale-developers-big-dreams.html?hp

from today's NYT. 

Micro development, one house lot at a time in Buffalo New York.  Interesting concept & the prices are certainly right if you have enough sweat equity to put into it.  Certainly beats absentee landlords & this, is also a good, if small-scale contrast to the developers cited in the article in the Times from a month ago about national  companies buying up great swathes of foreclosed homes & installing renters in them. 

  Now, if only the Bills could start winning on a regular  or even semi-regular basis...