What most don't, realize, remember or know is that Denver was one of the 1st markets in the country to get hit in 2007 - so it is one of the 1st and strongest in the recovery.

The only time I see "selling to buy" as a viable strategy is if there is some degree of certainty that my sell property is going to suffer some type of economic set back, and my buy properties are going to return at least as much cash flow to me (including the recovery of sale costs and loss of cash flow from that asset) , appreciate at the same rate or above as the asset I sold and the by assets are NOT going to be exposed to the same degree of potential economic set back as the sell property. 

In foreclosure recovery!!!

We've been looking in FL and KC  simply because they seem to be a bit behind us in recovery and the prices are much more affordable. 

In my market I deal with CEO's, Athletes, and high ranking individuals so I am dealing with assistants and people that could generally care less about a review but if you make it easy you can make it happen.

Yes, the market is better now but what I stand to gain now is only a partial recovery of the years of losses.If it isn't going to make money now get rid of it, even if you have to pay a little.

Also mentally if I can give them what they want and they think they have won then really I have won if it's just money etc.Just like athletes on any given day no matter how well trained anyone is someone can get lucky and take you out.

when u wake up in the hospital recovery room after a 2.5 hrs hernia surgery and tell your wife "we should lowball that dump we saw yesterday at 20k". of course, the first sentence was "I love you, shnookums".  

I currently live in Denver, Colorado but my wife and I will be moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico on September 1st, 2014.I have spent the last eight years training athletes for a career, however the last few years I have been longing for something with a better life/work balance.

Hi Erik,Here's a brief overview of our investing career to this point; it's kind of the Tale of 2 Cities, as Denver home values were much lower in 2010 than they are today, and I've been the beneficiary of a nice tail wind during the recovery.