@Bill Coleman, As Jay was saying, wetlands are hyper local & definitely a bugger in CO (a high desert).

I have been painting all my units in Home Depot's Behr Gobi Desert eggshell, in all rooms.

And Global Warming is a reality, which climate scientists predict, will lead to the southern parts of North America, will be turned into hyper-dry deserts.

The desert is beautiful and you can still get to a ski area in a couple of hours.

Even if I go all the way out to Victorville, which may as well be another state, I'm looking at 150k dollar houses in the middle of the desert.

After graduation and looking for opportunity and something other than the desert of Las Vegas I moved to Indiana.

I've lived in another part of the Inland Area (part-time, anyway) for well over 30 years and am a semi-retired real estate and note investor.There's an incredible amount to learn however, if you have the right attitude, are willing to study (a lot) and do some driving down the mountain to some reia meetings, your learning curve will be helped greatly.Here are some challenges for you to consider: do you intend to invest only locally in the mountain communities or surrounding areas, perhaps including the desert cities?

Law says you can only build a medium size sfr on an average size lot and then they wonder why the sprawl reaches the desert, and why the city is broke having to pay for thousands of miles of unnecessary public infrastructures 

I know Stone Mountain is kind of frowned upon- but these subdivisions (mountain oaks and also waters edge a little further north) look like oases in the desert.

I guess this old news but Desert Hot Springs went for the grow business in a big way ,Indio soon to follow http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-marijuana-culti...