I am looking in the surrounding areas outside the actual city of Hartford.

On grid-  learn the island water and sewer infrastructure capacity.  8.  

And while it's all coming together, I saw a lot of things that I liked - job growth, planning and development, infrastructure improvements etc.  

Those recently built homes start to lose value because the comparable sales surrounding them that are "Not" new builds and are selling for less causing a standstill on those new homes.

Not sure if you mean the town of Catskill on the river, or the mountain area, but This thread has a bunch of folks talking about the town and surrounding river towns.

This raises a critical question: Is there a genuine rental demand in these areas, despite the city's ongoing efforts to enhance infrastructure?

A very large portion of the tax base has left and moved to lesser taxed surrounding counties.

You'll have to pay many multiples of that.I don’t doubt that, 18 years is 18 years . . . although it does show that the high value competitively priced infrastructure is likely to already be in place. 

I'm a wholesaler located in delaware, I'm trying to network with investors, agents in the surrounding areas.

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