Finding the most profitable market for investment across USA

[Sunal Gupta]

Hi, I am a newbie, as you can tell from the title of this post. I have been researching on and off over the past 6-8 months, but can't really answer my first basic question, what is the most profitable / right market to look at and start researching in depth for investing in cash flowing and high appreciation properties. I am based out of California, which makes me think if California is not the right market then it can be anywhere across the country since it doesn't matter. But the real question is, what is the, THE market to start researching the neighborhoods and properties and contacting realtors to take the first step.