Or there are areas in central Houston in the $400-450k range where I see higher appreciation.  

We are in N Central Florida.

Finding a house to rent or buy in Japan and Latvia you have to go to several realtors to see what is available because there is no central repository. 

I'm a RE Agent and Investor in central Houston (one of our houses is up in Spring) and I use Hemlane.com to track and manage payments, maintenance requests, ect. 

And know I could earn an extra 30-45% more with this property due to that fact that it has 4 bathrooms and 8 bedrooms and is centrally located as well. 

CFRI (Central Florida Realty Investors) has a county meeting for Volusia and you could come to the general meeting in Orlando too.

Also keep in mind that without agents inputting their listings into the MLS, and NAR creating these platforms and central databases to begin with, there would be no Redfin, Zillow, flat-fee FSBO listing services etc. to populate that data for the public to use.

Central Indiana is a great market to start in, we've seen a ton of growth over the last ten years. 

Google voice, ring central or Vonage Business can work for this,

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