I think you'll do better a bit further north.  

I've been reading a guy's blog who can't understand why north easterners don't move to CA.

Jon Klaus - The duplex is in North Dallas, near 635 and 75.

I'm originally from just north of you, in North Branch, MN (about half hour north of the Twin Cities.)

Just as a barometer here north of Dallas is a very nice city called Plano.

Hey Gerald David I'm just north of you, up in Washington!

Hey Brian welcome to Bp, My girlfriend lives on the North Side of long Beach so I am there a lot.

Hi, my name is Neal and I'm located just north of Boston.

You generally won't achieve 2% on houses north of $50,000 except in some war zones and distressed regions.50% guide simply states that 50% of your gross rents will go to expenses over the life of the rental, of the remaining 50% take out debt service then you have your income.Rent $1600, means $800 a month will be eaten up in expenses, capital, maintenance, insurance, legal, accounting, utilities etc.If the area isn't too bad (no bars over windows, you feel safe walking there) it seems pretty decent to me, then again I am comparing that to whatever you can get in SoCal right now.Andrew

For instance here in North Texas the primary MLS is NTREIS.