@Irene Morgovsky what you are experiencing is that rents do NOT increase linearly with property values.Or look at it another way, the pool of renters that can afford higher & higher rents, shrinks faster than a corresponding pool of buyers.You could look into making it a short-term rental to try to improve rental income, but:1) Is it allowed in that area2) STR rates are coming downYou may have to accept "negative income" or sell.

Just sayin.. if shoe is on the other foot and your running credit on someone and dont realize its not real ?? 

If anyone has any advice or can point me to a portion of this forum that would help me get my footing, I would greatly appreciate it!

Hope I haven't shot myself in the foot by giving out the location but I'm thinking you all have bigger fish to fry anyway, lol! 

And I definitely don’t need to get off on the wrong foot with my first rental.

Just buy your first rental as a house hack to get your foot in the door and get some operational experience owning/ operating Multi-family.

Then decides who he is going to assign to fulfil those parts- such as the six foot fence, and the security guard company. 6 foot fence rental can be expensive, security guards 24 hours a day can be expensive also, and on top of the contractual requirement, some security guard companies will require two or three guards on your site plus a supervisor visit due to its remote location or fear of the guards of the local bad guys.

I wanted to introduce myself as I am incredibly anxious to step foot into the incredible world of REI and would love to know if there are any local investors that meet/would like to meet on a semi-regular basis.I currently have a full time job in outside sales in the Arvada area so I do a lot of driving around which enables me to spend a lot of my time listening to podcasts and educating myself but I would love to get to know some players within my local area to really dive deep into the subject and in which I could potentially be of value in the future.

I just need to get my foot on the bottom rung of the ladder. 

Architects and builders in the area are quoting 2000 per square foot, but I am seeing new construction builds in Martis camp selling for 4 million for 4000 square feet, just wondering why I am being quoted double what other builds are being sold for.