Thank you all for your input and advice.

To the previous poster, I do want to get into it slowly. Only planning on getting one or two, however I wanted to get one or two that wouldn't depreciate on me over time if I decided to sell them because I wasn't into ball pythons. I.e. it would make more sense for me to get a normal female ball python over a male normal, because over time the female would gain more value and male would be next to worthless. That's sort of where I was going with this thread.

I am now considering just getting a male albino and then picking up adult female normals locally and have them ready for when he matures.