Out of your list, I suggest the Northern and Western cities you listed (Conroe, Montgomery, and Katy).

Any suggestions on areas?

@Vijay Singh SambasivamI would suggest speaking to local banks, and credit unions.

Any PMC suggestions for this area would be great.

See if you can get a copy of The Millionnaire Real Estate Investor by Keller.The Slight Edge and Atomic Habits too.Awesome board with many smart people having own suggestions and ideas to grow wealth!!

One thing I suggest doing as you do your research as well is to find a property on AirBnB that you like. 

Brown, I obviously don't use other registered agents so @Nathan Gesner suggestion is pretty good. 

Most properties are remotely managed by owners/PMs and what was suggested would be an impossible and unrealistic standard to set - much less enforce. 

Thus, when a foreclosure sale is held, you can set the bid amount up to the amount of the total debt, which would likely increase from 80K to include the legal fees, receivership costs(we suggest 5 - 10% of the rents collected), repair costs, additional accrued interest, minus rents collected.

I always suggest buying fewer but better properties.