I am a Realtor in Sacramento and I can honestly say we have appreciated the boom out here as more and more Bay Area resident move out this way due to affordability. 

Belton's Booming School District NewsMay 29, 2018BELTON – Belton Independent School District officials broke ground on the $125.6 million Lake Belton High School.The 394,000-sf campus, near the intersection of Hwy. 317 and FM 2483, will help the district ease overcrowding at its only high school.Lake Belton High School is expected to open for classes by fall 2020.The campus, which is being built to accommodate 2,500 students, will have baseball and softball fields, tennis courts, and areas for career and technical education.Currently, the district has nearly 3,300 students enrolled in its high school and expects that number to rise to 4,500 by 2023.Templeton Demographics created projections for the district that showed new home sales in Belton have more than doubled since 2014.Source: KWTX TV

Northern panhandle is also good with the current gas boom and the cracker plant that is coming. 

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I am thankful I avoided the monster boom towns like Douglas and Casper. 

Schwed said is so succinctly: "When there is a stock-market boom, and everyone is scrambling for common stocks, take all your common stocks and sell them.

The massive boom in spending on oil production in the US will also likely come to an end.  

Sale price from wholesaler is $406,000 (he has it under contract at $395k)Rehab breakdown (based on bids):  - $6,100 on foundation- $89,500 on cosmeticsAnd here's where the confusion comes in:Wholesaler is advertising an ARV of $600kMy realtor is telling me we can get more like $625k based on his research.A seasoned investor I'm looking at buying this thing with is saying we can't sell it for more than $500k due to the market.As most of you know on here, Dallas is booming and this is a nice older neighborhood that has a lot of older people living there.  

So, the ones that could began to move back to the South of Kennedy Blvd. and the building boom was on.

I am in Arizona a market that dropped significantly since the boom, and I’m starting to think some investors are buying at FMV simply because they expect appreciation.