So this year 7.9%, which is still healthy appreciation.Heck.

Which turns a healthy $75K gain into mediocre real quick.You've got a couple of options however.1.

I also think those nonvolatile markets, if you pick one with healthy rental demand, you've got a much lower chance of that market taking a turn when the economy does.

With all the developments you mentioned and with Denver affordability reaching a ceiling in much of the metro area, Elyrea/Swansea/Globeville is very much in the path of progress, but at the same time the smelting plants and refineries of ASARCO literally poisoned that area to death for many, many decades, making the soil extremely toxic. 

Stay Healthy,Doug

Furthermore, lending standards have tightened (at least from my experience) so lenders are going to want you to have plenty in reserves and healthy debt to income numbers.

I've got enough cash for a healthy 20% - 25% down payment and I'm struggling to find some affordable properties, too.

Otherwise, they are only open for him in Illinois for now.It's always good to have a healthy amount of skepticism.RESPA laws are very strict on owner occupied properties and that's one of the reasons Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac exist. 

IF you allow it, I would spell EVERYTHING out in the pet addednum including the penalty for not picking up the dog waste; no digging; no soiling in the house; must have all required vaccines, etc. 

Then there was excess soil from another remodel job and contractor was putting the soil into a dumpster to take to a landfill.