This is because it's more risky for them because YOU have less skin in the game and are more likely to skip out on the payments statistically.

As a disclosure, I'm living in West Africa (I'm a New Englander) and serving with the Peace Corps, so I am getting constant updates on the Ebola situation and consider myself pretty well-informed on the disease and statistics, especially in the most recent outbreak. 

Originally posted by @Tim Key:Tim,Zillow uses a statistical formula for coming up with a value. 

It is always very satisfying to know that my 2 cents helped somebody or just made them smile.I try to reciprocate as much as I can by voting on posts that I find as helpful, informative, those that give me a chuckle and others that are just laugh out loud funny whenever I find them....whether I know the poster or not and whether they have ever voted for one of my posts or not.Having said that, it seems rather difficult to actually find the statistics on who voted for one of my posts in my profile data since I do not usually save the email notification.I have not found a way to find out who I voted for or what post or thread it was in unless I really spend some time trying to backtrack to find out that info.Is there a way to put these two bits of info at our fingertips within our profiles?

Guidelines are statistically valid based on large populations of data, those who learn to underwrite within parameters, while given some leeway, are not as well versed in the micro analysis required to identify acceptable risks that fall outside the norm.

Given the statistics of landing just one deal, I'd rather have many people to market to in order to up my chances of landing a deal.As far as the subsequent months, keep mailing until you land the deal or they ask you to stop mailing them. 

Metropolitan Indianapolis has 3 of the top 50 fastest growing counties in the country in a recent statistic I found.

Prohabber, The current company I teach at tracks statistics like, "most common causes a house reaches foreclsoure."

You can talk to 20 professionals locally per week in less than 5 hours and statistically 1 out of 20 will likely turn into a good referral source for you continually.

The loss of control or lack of control leads to the fear---as to you other point, it's statistical fact that the majority of us invest the lionshare of our nest egg into some derative offered by Wall Street...I was trying to draw a parallel, you can't touch, feel, see or control anything on Wall Street, but that doesn't stop trillions of dollars from flowing in and out of it on a daily basis.