This was a no money down deal was a tri-plex, duplex, SFR and studio all on a few city lots.

Unless you have a specific monthly target for your payment you can spread that out to make it a Win/Win.There has been a lot of growth in Denver over the last 2-3 years and new builds as well I just closed on a home for a customer in commerce city they also moved from CA and needed a fresh start. 

If I google his name just right, with the city he was from, there's the newspaper articles too.

It takes me 10~ minutes to get on Lake Shore drive, then it's pretty easy to navigate the city. 

My wife and I have loved real estate for a long time and invested in other areas, but are focused on building our portfolio in Kansas City.

A lot were doing air bnb up until the new rules came in place for the city of San Diego but you can still find a property outside the city that you can potentially do STR with to cash flow. 

The STR needs to be licensed with the city and can be rented out for a maximum of 180 days in STR format for a calendar year. 

@Bob Asad I have rentals in a city that requires separate accounts for deposits.

As @Robin Smith mentioned, for assessing demand I used FurnishedFinder.com/stats; you can see demand data for a given city and some pricing data too.

And now cities in every state are crying about a giant homeless problem.