A reply on another thread made me wonder about something. Mikeoh mentioned fannie mae is showing 5% appreciation annually over the past 50 years on average. The Rule Of 72 says that to find out how long it takes to do...

Mathematicians work for the government so you can't trust them!

You don't have to be a mathematician, The investors will throw a number at you...... it's up to you if you want to take it or not.Eric H., Instead of presenting YOURSELF, PRESENT DEALS INSTEAD.

I was just stressing the point where the math in some states works against in the overbid (I'm no mathematician either.). 

Some of them are even true.Landlords are immersed in the human experience every day.Landlords are required to be a strange amalgamation of amatuer mathematician, contractor, lawyer, counselor, arbiter, designer, landscaper, mediator, administrator and bookkeeper.Landlords have watched the deal of a lifetime turn into an infinite chain of problems after the ink is dry and the money is long gone.

Those types of questions would likely help you find a reasonable upper limit on how much you should reserve.I would love to a large PM share their data with a mathematician, and probably a professional poker player :), and see if they could come up with some guidelines.

I think this field is very well paid but you better be a great mathematician, like the best 1-2% of your graduate class to have a chance.

Our society is to the point where we pay such an absurd amount in the financial/business industry that our engineers/mathematicians go to work for Wall Street for financial engineering (and creating NO VALUE!

And, just another thing about me, if I could pick any job in the world, I would be a mathematician.

I've always admired Mathematicians though, they can be experts in a lot of different fields.