So yes geographical restraints play a roll but JOBs and ethnic diversity also was a huge driver...

It's also a college town.Denver (and I'm referring to the whole metro area) is very diverse.

This is a great bunch of people with a wide diversity of knowledge and skills!

AVM's therefore tend to be very good in large subdivisions of homogenous homes with regular sales activity, and get increasingly bad as surrounding homes get more diverse, or there are fewer sales on which to base the estimate.On the debt side, each loan made against a property is public record, including the loan amount, and often, the basic terms of the loan are available as well.

It's kind of shocking to ride through what used to be some of the rougher parts of the city and see such a diversity of people living there now.

They have a ton information about different strategies from a huge diversity of people.

What I can tell you is overall it is a solid market both by characteristics that are important to me in evaluating markets (strong economic growith / momentum for the city, diversity of business, high amount of renters, low property taxes compared to purchase price, solid neighborhoods with tenant quality etc) as well as it is a market that I believe over time the long term will have small but steady price appreciation.  

Diversity is the (not so) secret to reliable income from investments.

Check out quality of posts, websites, LinkedIn and any other background information.Since I'm new to the REI arena, I've spent considerable time learning, observing, following and reading select member posts on BP that I've come to trust, just to understand the nature of this diverse business. 

I'm probably one of the people you mentioned that avoids the "****ty" little towns because they don't provide a diverse enough job base/stability I'm looking for.