As the 10th largest media market we have all major sports leagues, arts & theater, great schools, major and stable corporate employers like 3M, Target, Best Buy, Honeywell, Boston Scientific, Medtronic, St Jude Medical, Cummins, and many more. 

I've been wholesaling  houses for serval years now, but now its time to step up to the big leagues.  

Currently looking in the SE Houston area (Pasadena, League City)

Specifically: Webster, League City, Friendswood, Southbelt/Ellington, Clear Lake.  

If you're starting out, I wouldn't try going against the major league players.    

But I also know that commercial is the big leagues, like needing significant capital (30% down most of the time), it can be riskier, and requires much more experience.

It has been really lucrative for the past 2.5 years, but I am ready to jump into the "big leagues" once I move up to Connecticut.

Multi-family is really the only answer and there are two options, stay on the 2-4 unit playground via residential financing or play in the big leagues with commercial financing. 

Zach Elcott a 30k down payment on a 100k turnkey is how I started but you might be better off based on how much time you have to just start out in the major leagues.

They just built a huge tennis center near berry college and the ACC tennis championships were just played there, some movie filming, minor league baseball and they're getting better with promoting our rivers, hiking trails and historic downtown.From what I've read I think Huntsville is similar in that it's a bit undiscovered because it's in a weird spot in NE Alabama but has tons going for it because of the Aerospace and other manufacturing and it also has the education and medical draw for the area.