UPMC is booming everywhere too.

However if that fits your strategy, due to time/skill constraints, then out of state is your best bet, Kansas City is booming, if I were to buy and hold.

We are Atlanta's little teenage brother growing up (fast) We are all lucky to be in a booming city basically still many years of growth left I have to disagree on this being a good buy and hold market on most markets.

Castle Rock, like everywhere else in the CO Springs, Denver, Boulder, and Ft Collins Front Range area is probably going to grow as a result of the incredible population and economic booms going on in our region of the country.

David Krulac - possible book titles for Todd Hutcheson: "Got that sinking feeling" "Cures for Sinking Thinking" "101 Uses for a Sinkhole" "How to Hide Your Motorhome from Debt Collectors" Be nice, or I'll post more!

I have some construction background that I use to do back in 2006 when new construction was booming.

2) Tuscaloosa seems to be in a development boom right now with all the student housing and tornado damage repair.

Thanks Jay.Seems like a boom building cycle for the houses now.

Boom!

But we knew several neighbors that lost serious money when they moved in during one of the boom times and moved out during the subsequent  slump.