If you are willing to live in urban areas you may want to talk to a local bank in your market and see if they have any incentives or grant loans for certain areas.  

If that is the case, just let them take it to market to sell.You could offer to manage the property and have them to rent it out now where you pay them a flat rate every month and anything you make over that amount is yours to keep.

I know a little about the phoenix market and agree it is growing. 

As you embark on this journey, you'll learn the importance of market research, the art of negotiation, and the power of leveraging assets.

A true levelized cost of energy (what the true price would be if it were an actual free market) gets very complicated quickly and it's basically impossible to calculate accurately due to the energy industry being so heavily manipulated by incentives from the government for so long, across all forms of energy. 

Here’s our OPINION for the Metro Detroit market (use as a template for your target area!)

Partner with people in your market.

Being thoroughly familiar with the local market is key.

@Shane Regnier I've flipped a bunch of houses in Ocala but have yet to dabble in the rental market. 

So overall experience of your QI to work in a number of markets and locations is really the key.