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By:  Skyler Moore

The price correction in the Denver real estate market has created a lucrative investment property opportunity for real estate investors.  Properties can be acquired at distressed prices through public trustee sales, short sales, or directly through asset managers at banks.  Often, the acquisition price is below replacement costs to build the property.
Seasoned and new real estate investors have been flocking to public trustee sales to learn more about the process and the opportunity at hand.  What most investors find, is encouraging, but also discouraging.  The encouraging part, is that deals …

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Investors all across the country have been burnt by purchasing a proforma, rather than an investment property.  I personally have seen this happen over and over again in the Denver market for both residential and commercial investment properties.  Sure property values have dropped, which has caused real estate owners to become upside down, but often the proforma numbers they were given were set up for failure.
Evaluating real estate is quite simple once you know what you are doing, it just takes some experience.  One of the first things that …

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A huge factor of success in owning investment property is keeping it rented with tenants that pay on time.  The dream tenant seldom calls the landlord, pays rent in a timely manner and well maintains the property.
The reality for real estate investors is finding all 3 of these attributes can be very difficult.  It does happen and is ideal for investment property owners, but waiting around for a tenant that possess all three can result in vacant months, leaving the landlord with negative cash flow.  If an real estate investor can …

Every real estate investment market is unique and has it’s own thumb print.  Denver is no exception and often surprises prospective buyers or real esate investors when they see the Denver real estate chart.
It surprises them, because the media leads most people to think that the entire country was experiencing a massive housing bubble from the early 2000’s through 2007.  This was true on a US macro level and in specific markets like Las Vegas, Phoenix and Cape Coral.
What most people do not know is that only 25 of the roughly 400 major …

Investors Cash in on Denver’s Price to Rent Ratios
Investors all across the country are capitalizing on great price to rent ratios in the metro Denver area for strong cash flow.  Denver real estate was hit hard like most major markets during the housing correction, but has seen an increase of 12.1% from June of 2009 to an average sales price of $190,500.  The key to avoiding negative cash flow properties is to stick with numbers based on sound due diligence of the local market.
The Denver area varies in price drastically by …