So on the one hand, betting only on appreciation is a gamble (and that's why I mentioned that you need to determine whether you can survive a market downturn) but on the other hand, you can use market and economic trends to get a certain "feeling" of where the market will be in the future.

If you're looking for an I-F agent, here are some characteristics I consider to be important:1.

It just has one unique characteristic I haven't come across before, it right next door to a funeral home.

It’s the government’s right to take private property for a public purpose, like widening the street, or building the Barclays center 😀.It’s a gamble to decide if the city will actually decide to use the land.They usually provide a “fair market value” and it’s inevitable with time that the property will get acquired.

You would be gambling that rents and home prices will go up enough to make this a good deal. 

Characteristically, I choose the 30 year and pay it like a 20, but that extra cash you have to lay out for the 30 doesn't make sense at that loan amount.

If you’re putting in offers without running your numbers you’re gambling.

The decent producing Realtors, the ones that sell a fair amount of homes, already know what's up and aren't doing a lot of hands on hips drama routines with pointless threats and all that (top producers never do drama routines anyways, it's a characteristic of being a top producer, and in case someone takes this as gendered commentary because I referenced hips, it is decidedly not gender specific, drama propensity is equal opportunity in this case), but the lower producing realtors are all working on their Ph.D's in Drama Llama Sciences. 

There are ways to join tables using a data bridge if the data has similar characteristics.

dont you love appreciation ( oh wait on BP its gambling and who in their right mind would invest for that :)  )