Just obsess over it.Once you get a base of education you will be able to decide which niche you would like to pursue (house flipping, wholesaling, long term rentals, short term rentals, commercial, etc).When you pick your niche, then you can start networking and building a team who will be able to support you in your business.

Here is why:STRs aren't going anywhere and if you can make the experience unique EVEN BETTER.

Regardless of what your niche is it all comes down to what are you doing each day to get to where you want to go and repeating until you get there.   

It's easy to go after every strategy or niche.

Just do a keyword search for your area or niche.

Prices are still dropping and, because this is a unique situation, nobody can predict where the bottom is.

It's a market specific niche.

The value of the land has very little to do with cap ex.Each property has unique cap ex cost.  

Entertaining the idea of building something unique and smart for the Austin, Texas area or other parts of the country.

Once I start having some success there, now I don't look at California and get disappointed, now I just enjoy exploring creative strategies and making my network in different states, and talking with amazing people making money in unique ways.