If there's no job growth, then the appreciation is going to stop and not sustainable.

You can explain it to him, if he is a resonable guy he should understand.

While Denver, CO was the best performing city in the U.S. in terms of 2007 peak-Current price performance (whopping 79%), it is in fact still fairly valued at ~0% valuation vs historical sustainable level, as based on incomes.

Counter tops in the kitchen are typically laminate though we recently found a source for counter tops made of recycled glass and wood/paper which we are testing in a unit {with our student units we have begun incorporating more sustainable finish materials and have found it to be well received}.Finishes aside, all of our student properties come with complementary Internet (Fibre-Op) and non coin-op laundry.

@Matt Smith What strategy resonates with you the most? 

Not sure if this helps, but I wrote this a while back...it talks about what I look for in a turnkey market-https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2015/12/2...As far as meeting the good folks, a lot of it will just be a matter of shopping around different companies and seeing who you resonate best with.

Any decent economist will show you that anti-trust is a sham and that the only true monopolies are created and sustained through government force.

Here's a question for you all.What would a resonable goal be for the first year of real estate investing?

That is not sustainable and VERY concerning!

And meanwhile your portfolio is becoming self sustaining all the while.