I have found houston area is tougher for flipping.. but can be done.

Not to say there aren't great pockets in Center but overall, that's a tougher area to make work - especially remotely.

If mortgage insurance is involved, it is tougher.

the training as an aside.. private money lenders are NOT looking for newbies generally and are not sitting at home waiting for a guru to call and say they have a new student.you can simply talk to your local HML which is who you would use anyway if you need capital.as for learning the business there are a myrid of ways to do that.you can go to e bay and buy any and all guru course and videos for pennies... spend a few hundred on those and sift through the information.there is just so much hype that people can go from not knowing anything about real estate to be financially independent in a few short months.. and folks simply don't know what they don't know this is a long game a very long game.. and depending on were your living and working it can be very very difficult without substantial cash already.. areas of the North east and mid west you can deal in SFR's like used cars because they sell for that. if your west coast based.. much tougher

If your going to keep it for yourself it makes it a bit more tougher to answer.

Making it tougher to get ahold of private flip-able assets down here.

Accessibility options that will work for everyone in the household are definitely tougher to come by.

Being an STR is going to make ratios to get 80LTV even tougher if you aren't going through a true STR lender who used AirDNA for rental income. 

Banks tend to make the lending process a little tougher when buying through your LLC as opposed to buying it under your name and then transferring the property over to an LLC.

Basically my two cents: cash flow is tougher around here as rents are usually around the .7% - .8% rule (impossible to find a "1% rule" without serious rehab anymore).