I am unwilling to gamble 20 years of slow and steady building for a shot at a quick profit. 

My parent's home is across the street from an elementary school, and it has since become an extremely valuable place to live.High schools are more of a gamble.

They are gambling purely on price appreciation and they are doing it BIG TIME!

I am getting spammed with other must have products that will save me from the end of the world.

Craigslist produces too much spam and folks who aren't familiar with the area.

To me, that's the same logic - you may eventually sell the house as a FSBO, but do you really want to take the gamble that the carrying costs on a FSBO won't exceed the realtors fees?  

Account ClosedThat sounds more like speculating/gambling - I am not looking to do that.  

I got into a fantasy football pool with my real estate agent and he self appointed himself as the treasurer and held $480 to pay out the winner. I won the championship and he now owes me $280 and has not paid me in tw...

Been getting spammed lately with fake Docu signs and fake huds... anyone getting these.As I get docusigns and Huds to review pretty much dialy I open them by accident now I just delete them

Low quality assets in okay locations throw off cash flow (sometimes) but generally do not have long term appreciation or high quality dirt value for redevelopment in future years.Some areas do have massive transformations but those are big gambles over time.