Blackjack may have a 99% payback.

The answer was to lower expectations to reality or play 10 perfect hands in a row of blackjack or 10 perfect futures contracts in the market. 

If you're some kind of real estate genius and know how to time the market so you can sell your properties before a down turn, value-add on each buy to get a permanent YoY return of 20%+, or happen to know how to count cards in blackjack, ignore all my prior advice.

Just my two cents based on my 20 years experience in the field of forecasting and money management (I was also a semi-professional Black Jack gambler).God Bless You.

I have looked at a few different coatings such as Blackjack and wondered if anyone had any suggestions or experiences with different roof coatings?

As Charles sort of suggested, there's probably some sort of economics-based differential equations that could be used to model return vs risk vs time in various investment activities.While it probably wouldn't be useful in real life (not sure you could tune the inputs well-enough to be meaningful), you could probably play around with various inputs to get a feeling for their sensitivities to one another.If I were smarter, I'd probably be able to apply some of the utility modeling work I used to do as a poker player to real estate investing...Which actually reminds me that I've been meaning to start a really geek thread on a related subject...a bit off the topic (or maybe not), but if you've studied card counting in blackjack or were ever a geek poker player, you may be familiar with the Kelly Criterion...I've recently started thinking about whether there is a way to apply the concept to portfolio real estate investing:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion

I used to have a Blackjack and it was actually a very good phone!

This isn't black jack where the rules always statistically work.

It is Casino Rules; play a risk happy game is sitting at the black jack table trying to end with more than began.

Hopefully, luck isn't needed.....I'll save that for a trip to Vegas and an hour of blackjack.