As you already know, the DFW market is super saturated with investors crawling and overpaying for deals, so keep to your plan.

If your market is saturated with agents who don't market themselves well, you can spend this time seeing what agents are not doing and start adding that to your RE plan, if you choose to go into it.

I had an idea that Houston would be a super saturated market, but I'd like to keep my focus on an area that I have at least a basic understanding of with my limited knowledge base.

I'm sure there are strategies that still exist to make a buck, but man is this area saturated and competitive!

In places like southern CA where it's so saturated, it'll be tough to find the deals.

Maybe the market isn't saturated with tenants and it will take 6 months to relent the premises plus turnover costs, so evicting a recidivist last payer is not the right option?

I would even question whether zillow is worth it any more as popular zip codes are becoming quickly over saturated and expensive.

I can't say my journey is much different; saturating myself with learning tools for about a year.

That market is over-saturated in this market, and you sound like you're new, and you would be playing against pros.  

"Listsource" and other similar companies has been a good concept, but because of over saturation in the market with those particular lists, it becomes obsolete.