If I lose my money in real estate, I want it to be my fault, not just sitting by watching some equal idiot make bad or fraudulent decisions.

Things seem a bit fishy and some yellow flags that I always see on websites like this one that are possibly either scammy/fraudulent or, at best, just brokers without direct access to capital, are things like:  - All stock photos and not a single team or officer photo - Range of loans that are super small ($100 was listed as payday loan in the FAQ) all the way up to $30M.

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.

I reported the listing as fraudulent to Zillow, and they quickly removed it.

We will not help Shady Steve or Fraudulent Frank. 

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