Personally, I would spend 1500 on a combination of locality boas and caging. But if you're just looking for ball pythons, there's a simple answer: go to an expo and pick out a couple of things you like. Look for quality morphs, not necessarily high end morphs. Take, for example, pastels. There are a lot of browned out, normal looking pastels that go for next to nothing. But, if you look, you can find some super nice pastels going for $500+, that are well worth the money. Look around, check out faunaclassifieds.com and market.kingsnake.com, and find something you like, then find a superior example of what you like.