He started spamming me texts announcing when Dr.

@LaTonya Clark “One  can’t tell but I do know part of me is willing to take a chance”…You make it sound as if real estate investing is no different than gambling….

@Barre Gambling I am curious... in your opinion, is our area in central NC underserved outside of the Raleigh-Cary-Durham MSAs?

Our goal with this policy is to accomplish several things: - Encourage these "wholesalers" to bless some other real estate investing community with their presence- Stop the SPAM- Offset the several hundred thousand dollars per year in costs that spammers, too often "wholesalers" bring to the platform. 

2024 v 2025 is a gamble.

It is very much case-by-case and requires understanding of the current regime for personal itemized deductions, as well as gambling on the proposed changes to this regime by the current administration.

Craigslist wasn't pretty, but it was easy to use, and it worked (I found lots of great tenants via Craigslist) ...unfortunately, over the years, Craigslist produced fewer and fewer tenants, and more and more spam.  :( These days, nearly all my new tenants come from Facebook Marketplace.  

Quote from @V.G Jason: Quote from @Jay Hinrichs: The mindset of cash flow is everything and appreciation is just luck or gambling or whatever these folks say is one of the worst mindsets I see on BP.

Simple appreciation is a gamble because you have no control over it, so don't consider it.

A big question is do you have the $25,000 to gamble?