Growing your referral base is key to your success as an investor.

Denver is one of the better national markets and it not only growing, but attracting educated, young migrants. 

My husband and I were looking for commercial real estate office space that would allow my medical practice to grow. 

Please understand too that we have no issue with a service dog or our tenants having one, we were just concerned that they would have every intention of training this dog, but then grow slack on its training and ending up with just a pet, and for free, no less, in our home and causing potential damage. 

I personally use all of the following:COC Cash on CashROI Return on InvestmentROE Return on Equity (specific investment)RONW Return on Net Worth (am I growing my wealth?)

Appreciation is limited as it is imploding demographically.Countries like Canada, Australia, NZ are well positioned for long term demographic and economic growth, but they are not as affordable as growing US cities like Charlotte, Atlanta, and Indianapolis at the moment.

A lot of the parts of Atlanta which are projected to grow significantly aren’t necessarily in the best part of town.

At some point, the current 10-20% yearly bumps become unsustainable and rents will fall as the number of renters decreases.Meanwhile, investors/developers might seek other markets, but how many markets are growing rents at more than 9% per year? 

@Jay Hinrichs there is value add in every market but unlike yesteryear when value add meant buying at half of rebuild cost and pushing rents a modest $100 yielded 15-20% cash on cash on the hold, today its forcing rents up to top of the market (and historically adjusted highs) and hoping and preying that those rents stay there and continue to grow (not to mention interest rates).

At some point you WILL need to connect or work with people who do have the money in order to really grow & scale things up but as you're getting rolling you won't necessarily need the money quite yet.