.- I understand your frustration with your $50k properties - I started investing in the worst areas in Houston's worst "wards" and slowly transitioned my properties through the same 77373 zip code you are probably currently invested ---- now I have almost all of my property in The Woodlands - Easy tenants, steady rent income, and decent appreciation.- You are on both ends of the investing world and the sweet spot is right in the middle.Think of the Monopoly Board - the best investments are the Orange and Red properties around Free Parking --- Go to Jail cards and the Go to Jail spot jump players over the high rent properties and the low rent properties in a way that mimics the supply and demand principles of the free market --The Orange and Red properties represent the highest rental demand segment of middle class America -- In my opinion that is where you will most successfully invest and if I were in your shoes, that is what I would do.Good luck and Happy investing -jeff

West Sac is growing, Yuba City, Woodland, Placer county, etc.  

Woodlands, Sugarland, Austin, Mckinney, Spring, Katy, etc.Meet with your banker and then give me a call. 

I have rental property in the area and have been able to raise the rent but it was a big remodel. 1905 woodlands.

I would say Sugarland, The Woodlands and Katy would be good suburban A markets. 

@Andrew Taylor, I'm not far from you in The Woodlands.

I love this target rich listing in woodland park Colorado.  

I'm planning on focusing on SFR in Montgomery, the Woodlands, Spring, Conroe, and Magnolia.

You aren't far from me, I'm very familiar with Woodland Hills.

I see you're in the Woodlands, are there any good REI clubs up that way.