Finishing our first fix and flip and need referrals for a staging company in the metro Denver area. 

You may already be aware, but short-term rentals have been the subject of much debate in Metro Council.

Low income and high crime do not necessarily go together - especially outside of the metro area.One thing we have found to be an issue is insurance. 

It’s “stupid on Steroids “as Dave Ramsey likes to say .or the office staff in high rise buildings I see in major metro areas with their two a day starbucks habits costing them 10 bucks a day for coffee or more. 

Traffic has always been the major challenge & with the metro south of DCA shutting down this summer, I might have to only have meetups on Sunday morning.

The issue / question I have with your suggestion of buying multiples in that on a 1031, I can only identify 3 properties (or the 200% rule), but in my market (Denver metro), unless I am doing fix and flips, I'm not going to get multiple safe investments that I know I'll close on, for that money. 

I too would have been selling last year if we had anything in a metro area, it's all rural here and that's on purpose. 

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So I'm a SFR investor and realtor in the greater Des Moines Iowa metro.

It was the only metro area listed as being in a recession  as far as I can remember.