As they say in poker, if you're at a card table and you can't tell who the sucker is within the first 30 minutes, you're the sucker.

It's like sitting at a poker table. 

Poker players call it rat holing.Everyone of your choices is incredibly valid and incredibly wrong depending on the market.  10 years is probably way into another market. 

I used to do this when I was playing poker, where I started a $200 bankroll and by playing $2 tourneys I ended up playing a lot higher stakes to $215 tourneys.  

It is a lot like sitting down to play poker in Vegas.

Holding onto a bad deal, throwing more money at it, wishing and hoping your luck will change it, isn't a plan....for success at least.REI is a lot like Poker in the sense you don't lose money when you lose hands...you lose it when you run out of money and are out of the game.  

I am a "retired" professional poker player, I have been fortunate to do fairly well over the years in poker, but I have become disillusioned with playing the game for a living, and feel like it is time for a change. 

Private Lending can be an interesting way to make a good return on your money for short term loans - and you'll generally have a 1st position lien on the property so if they skipped town, moved to Vegas, and became poker players - you'd get the house.

I've seen this all the time in poker.  

I also have played poker for some side income for about the same amount of time.