Do not kill the golden goose, pay tax on the gains, and then let the rest sit in a savings account. 

Marc,I'm also based out of Golden and grew up in Arvada.

The golden rule of investing should be: HAVE EQUITY in the asset. 

@Rosa Sugo-Golden - copy that. 

Hi Jeremy,You have a Golden rate at 3.25%, so I would stay way from refinancing.

On the North side of University Ave you're golden west of Lexington all the way to Minneapolis.

@Genna Golden : I completely agree.

@Johnny Espinoza I think the short-term vacation model is golden right now in places it would not have worked previously...my partner and I are converting a 180-yr old hotel into an Inn right now, we've done a ton of research over the last months...we found some good resources, but AirDNA was pretty affordable with good insights.On Cleveland...we use data to inform decision making...on a lot of different levels...lots of data and analysis...Cleveland is a beautiful city with lots of good things, but speaking from data, it's one of the worst locations in the US...I really wanted to find something good there out of virtue of proximity to our home market, but I can't...to be honest, it has an identical fingerprint to Detroit pre-collapse.

Right away we knew this guy is golden if he has such rapport with the city inspection office!

Our golden rule: max 70 LTV.