If you aren't willing to learn that investment asset, then you can either:1. find someone you trust to help you invest into that asset2. put money in low/no risk investment assets and just accept the low return3. blindly go into an investment asset and basically gamble.

With leverage you are using the houses money to gamble and not yours.

Your luck may be better and you are not assigned to the jokers I dealt with, but it would not be worth the gamble for me.

I will take less profit in a hotter area that sells faster than gambling on a small town/slow area with "potential" for higher profits.  

I don’t know the person, but I would think you could afford to gamble $525.

Better to accept today's rates over waiting and gambling on lower rates in 2023. 

Short term rental is always a larger gamble with more headaches than a long term rental.

However, we were basically gambling on every transaction at this point in our career.

@Steve Vaughan  agreed very slippery slope... we all hear about Hewlit and Packard starting in a garage with 15k of credit cards in the early days... and well look where they ended up.. so who knows.. but it sure is a gamble.

IMHO,  whats important is to walk the property, otherwise, you are taking a vegas gamble with not being able to see the inside.