The next deal you might buy 3 sight unseen condos and it goes BOOM.   

But echoing what everyone else has said, get out there, meet some people, look for deals, do grunt work, and one day you'll come across a deal good enough and take it to one of your investors and ask for a piece of it maybe 5 or 10 percent as a fee and BOOM, you're on your way.Or of course you could get a job and save $136/month for 12 years to buy one house.

As I'm sure you know construction is booming wait till it slows down....Plus is there even a demand for this in your area?

Big housing boom in the 70's followed by the Savings and Loan crisis in the early 80's.

The area may be losing population but certain sub markets are just booming.

LOLToday, I set all the room rate be $1 per night, boom, all the housing price fall to $10k each house, then I can buy all the cheap houses.  

Resulting in the owner being unable to refi as he has no cash to make up the difference.....and boom. 

@Robert White Sweetwater County has been a series of booms and crashes. 

All capable licensed contractors even from Central California are booked solid by housing construction booms here.

And boom I get email alerts from private & public investors having filled the capture form on one of my websites.