Good deals (great deals) are WORKED - negotiated, bartered, set up creatively, and necessitate understanding the opposite parties motivations, desires, needs, pressures, etc.

I'm new to the real estate investment world, and I have a desire to learn more about the best practices in the market.

@Sabuj Banerjee generally Buda is seen as more desirable than Kyle but both areas are growing like crazy.

Something that is not easy to identify with the owners if desired (aka don't use your initials)5. 

Will it be a property to live in yourself or to rent out, have you thought about any desired ROI, your buying power capabilities, etc.There are a lot of people in this post that can give you a hand of direction towards certain places/markets.  

If you have the time and desire.

However, since Ive never done this before I decided that the amount of capital needed in my desired markets was too great to risk testing my strategies here.

BiggerPockets is a guru at what it does for BiggerPockets and it's free to chat and explore new ideas and relationships.  10K is a drop in the bucket if you have the desire and will to make that turn into 500k, so don't get twisted as passive income you will not work for and make mistakes.People charge 10k for single-family wholesaling I have looked at many programs as I didn't know where to start and think of the mistake I would have made if I bought the wholesaling program. 

This is an all-too-common mistake: a rental sits vacant, less-than-desirable tenants are approved, and then those tenants don't pay and cause issues.You have to rip the bandaid off and ask them to leave.This may sound harsh, but it's not entirely the tenant's fault.

Selling to him sub to allows the seller to get out of a property sooner rather than later (if that’s what’s desired) and have the loan paid off when the buyer has his liquidity event. doing any CREATIVE  real estate deal SUCCESSFULLY requires the knowledge, experience and capital to be able to set up the transaction properly, with safeguards in place, and structure the transaction so both parties have positive reinforcement to “make it work”.