Find an agent who can answer your questions, a property manager, and see how the property would work for you.Living in Orlando I see Altamonte as a great area to invest in, large growth with much more to come and fairly family oriented. 

If you are seeing population/job growth along with new development in the market, it might be something so look into.

Is their still room for growth?

There are also very local factors that affect each market, meaning the local economy, job growth, demographics, local lending, insurance costs, property taxes etc. and these have an equal or greater affect on prices, inventory, rental rates, etc. in each respective market.For more info on the market cycle and what stage some of the major cities are in check out this article below:https://joefairless.com/what-stage-in-the-market-cycle-is-your-target-apartment-investment-market/

Many midwest markets are seeing solid population growth and are still attractive.

(Read as lots of growth)The down side is I would be making about the same as I am at my current job with the potential to move up quickly.

I'll also try and look at high growth areas I've lived in before (in different states) as it's hard to manage property there remotely but passive investing should be ok.

I.e. your $30k down could be enough for a $200k or $500k property.Next, I'd agree with the above posters, decide if you want to fix/flip for short term profits, or buy and hold (rental/landlord) for longer term wealth growth.

Jobs growth should only continue to ramp up as the projects currently underway get completed and new jobs hit the market.

This begs the question, is the average BP investor jumping into a SFH investment because that is what is available to them based on capital, and if so, that's totally fine IMO... or is there a population of investors that fundamentally prefer buying SFH in deteriorating economic markets for short term cash flow over the longer term, risk adjusted growth of a successful syndication?