If you look at net migration patterns especially the senior population that is in the tens of millions and more most are moving to warm belt states.Some urban core areas of cold belt states are doing well but the burbs and rural locations in a lot of those areas are dying off.I would not be excited about investing in such places even if the prices were low for long term success.Their are local investors in cold belt states creating legacies investing in those areas that never plan to leave but for an outside investor looking for a possible target market it doesn't seem to make sense.

More and more people are migrating to Chelsea because of the proximity to the airport.

Not familiar with the Texas requirements, but the California ones are super easy and can be done online and California is known to be a over-regulated state compared to Texas - the #1 destination for California businesses to migrate to.When you buy properties at auction, you need to have a cashier's check ready to pay the full amount at close.

It severed as way station for settlers along the Vincennes Trace (a trackway made by migrating bison through the Midwest. 

The warm belt states experiencing high growth from baby boomers retiring and migrating out of the cold belt states have plenty of retail tenants small and large with expansion plans ready to go in those spaces.Typical time in most warm belt states to re-tenant and get rent coming in to dark STNL could be anywhere from 3 months to 1 year depending on box size, location, mom and pop versus regional and national tenants who tend to move slower and be more methodical.We are not moving to a society where people sit at the computer all week long and stay in a house and drop ship 50 packages by drones.

I lived in Milwaukee for a few years for college and hope to eventually migrate to investing there once home base, so to speak, is taken care of.

Looking at growth trends, migration patterns, new tax laws etc.

You might also consider investing in a data migration tool like propertyradar 3) ASSIGNING THE CONTRACT The biggest frustration I have with wholesalers is valuation ignorance.  

Sounds like your position is that strong migration trends, limited housing supply, lots of companies in the area means house prices are unlikely to fall right?

Oregon is seeing significant in-migration from a younger population and those people are here to stay for the long-term (think about all of the Portland millennials who are now living in apartments who will want that white-picket fence single-family home one day).In my opinion, what @AndrewJurinka said above is correct in that duplexes and multi-units are better cash-flowing deals than single-family homes.