@Ashraf Martin it's a gamble on whether it's worth it or not.

In my area buying at auction is somewhat a gamble.

If they refuse, you will sue for everything owed and send them to collections so it sits on their record.It's a gamble but it works most of the time.

A person I have talked to a number of times, a lender, feels like syndications are just too distal and uncontrollable for his liking, perhaps not unlike Rome venturing out so far that it couldn't manage the provinces effectively.

Not because they are both forms of gambling. 

@Joshua Baker, Definitely you make a good point about retail being harder to lease these days, and I can see how building 250k of office/retail would be a big gamble.

The biggest reason is that we have changed to a global economy, and internet economy, and a virtual economy...all of which is unpredictable, and also uncontrollable. 

Highly recommend.Didn't David Moudy gamble away a quarter million dollars of tenant's security deposits? 

It seems like gamble today but at the right price, I think it might be worth it.

.% payment is ultimately a gamble on the conventional interest rates in the future and assessment on whether the extra 6.6% in downpayment is more useful elsewhere.