Meta ads in Grand Rapids look cheap, and that is the trap. A single audience for the entire metro puts a Kentwood renter and an East Grand Rapids homeowner in the same ad set, and Meta's system learns from neither.
West Michigan has strong local loyalty: neighborhoods like East Hills, Eastown and Creston have their own identity, and suburbs such as Ada, Cascade and Rockford read as separate towns. Seasons drive the calendar.
Fall is furnace and gutter time, spring brings basement water and lawn work, and summer near Holland and Muskegon brings seasonal property demand. The housing is the material for the ads: bungalows, older Heritage Hill homes, midcentury ranches, new builds toward Byron Center, and lakeshore cottages.
Michigan contractor and broker license lines work well as proof in ads shown to visitors again, and they are held by your firm, never by us.