Individual homeowner insurance is a gamble too. 

@Brandon Connell  you can call them marketing techniques I call it bait and switch and spamming and such.... but to each his own...

@Matt Sterling you took a gamble and Michael end up with the 8 that got away.

I'd imagine you'll do this just to find out if a LOMA is possible so it could be a gamble unless you've done research that other nearby properties have been removed from the FEMA floodplain.

I shared a blog post of mine that mentions all the local clubs but it got removed as "spam" I don't represent any of these clubs but rules are rules. 

Long shots are like gambling.

Flipping is a speed game, it's not too dangerous to project the sale price of a house 90 days out, but 3 years out is a gamble.

My inbox gets spammed by someone who posts the same information on the marketplace just about every other day and I would love to figure out how to stop getting those particular notification.  

Until that happens, it seems to me that the average investor not willing to comb through 200 pages of disclosures are just taking a gamble by "liking the theme" and hoping that the underlying management company knows what they are doing and executes the plan well w/full integrity.  

BTW I don't think that higher interest rates is going to lower the demand for rental units.Waiting to time the market down turn is a fools game just like gambling on appreciation.