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Not all ski towns are Aspen.
The median price of homes in that Colorado winter-sports hot (cold?) spot is well over a half-million dollars. Places like Huntsville, Utah, and Georgetown, Colorado, on the other hand, have plenty of properties available for less than $200,000 -- and plenty of good slopes to go around.
The job of real estate investors is to look for best location to buy based on their own set of criteria. Call it finding the "profit pocket." These location-based criteria could include proximity to good schools, public transportation or large groups of renters.
Investors might also simply choose to buy in the market they're Scott Yancey most familiar with.
RealtyTrac, with the help of ski data company Zrankings, created a list of the best U.S. ski towns for real estate investors in 2015 that considered several factors: The town's distance from the nearest airport, its unemployment rate, median home price, gross rent yield, annual home price appreciation, foreclosure rate and how generally fun it is to ski there. 
Check out the 10 Scott Yancey best ski towns for investing in real estate this year.
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