I like gambling analogies for real estate because, despite all the mumbo jumbo that sometimes gets thrown around, luck is a huge factor in your actual returns.

So, that's about my minimum for buying a rental.OTOH, I don't want to be dealing with a tenant for just $10 a month, even if that is getting me a 20% cash on cash return.As to your question, the number your asking about, in gambling terms, is called "variance".

The offshore yuan FX reserves and China's selling of Treasuries to float Yan something to watch too as selling pressure will drive up the 10-yr  If people watched and understand those vs.

I took the gamble in 2011, because I knew prices were at multi-year lows.  

This sounds like it is gambling or drug related.

We travel for business; in our spare time, we gamble, visit museums, go to the beach, and watch movies and TV with video on demand via a high-speed connection.http://www.esri.com/data/esri_data/ziptapestry

@Dawn Anastasi  the reality is these lending schemes that just collect up front fee's and due diligence fee's have been around for as long as I have been in the business  42 years now.Its just now that the off shore folks are hammering us.. those guys are serial  in what they do and the word probably has spread around about social real estate networks and the easy targets.

All we have are basic markers in a persons past to measure by and I will not be forced to gamble my business on their future behaviour.

Don't gamble that this will be that 1 of 10.

The way to explain it to him is, what would I do if something happened to you and she is the one living there, I need to know what kind of person I'm letting in my rental and who I would be dealing with if you were out of the picture.Is online gambling legal?