I think you would be better to work up to new construction maybe build the cash to build a spec home, it is still a large gamble as you will often be the nicest home on the block.

Stocks and bonds are gamble.

This is a huge gamble for the buyer if the markets turn in the interim.

Or you can run the gamble of not informing the bank and hoping they never exercise their due on sale clause.

If you are offshore and plan to continue to be offshore.

He was talking about gambling, however this rule can be applied to REI and other informed business ventures.Just the two cents of a newbie with a extremely conservative view on REI.

You're gambling with your "seed money". 

I'm not interested in gambling where if anything goes wrong (and with notes there's almost always something going unexpected) you break even or lose money.The fact that most small-buyer-friendly companies closed or aren't selling is hurting, too.

We gambled with the hope of profiting from Appreciation.

It would be a gamble because I dont have a lot of capital to cover the potential vacancies.