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12 February 2016 | 32 replies
The ones that do great are buying deeply discounted properties and adding value or gambling on price appreciation in great RE markets that have benefited from the market rebound following the recession.
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21 April 2016 | 61 replies
I was a renter in Minneapolis for ~ 6 years, the biggest thing for me was location.I would gamble on the Blue Line Light Rail expanions, as it will allow better transport in and out of downtown to those further out.
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14 February 2016 | 7 replies
I also think it would be pretty nerve-racking to take that money with that guaranteed return and gamble it on the uncertain.
9 February 2016 | 5 replies
Don't want to gamble $500 to just inspect a property.
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16 February 2016 | 12 replies
., generally-speaking, the populated areas of Riverside and San Bernardino Counties and maybe some of the cities in Los Angeles County that border San Bernardino County.
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13 February 2016 | 2 replies
It seems the cost of re-financing the mortgage is a gamble as to whether I could re-coop those costs by going this route.Has anyone been in a similar situation, or have any suggestions on how I could get started?
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28 February 2016 | 37 replies
I want to impress upon real estate investors that there are no certainties only probabilities and to assess the probabilities you have to consider the macro as well as the micro...investing without probabilities is gambling.
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15 February 2016 | 18 replies
Completely off topic, sorry.We are nothing like you big guys Jay, but I am looking at an area that is a definite C on the border of D and B.
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17 February 2016 | 14 replies
Austin is a bit more like gambling right now.
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12 May 2016 | 4 replies
I live about 10 minutes from the Indiana border which has very low property taxes, but our realtor says there's no point in trying to invest there because the market is over saturated with investors making it nearly impossible to obtain a property.