Either way is a gamble but if they are a legitimate business you may have a chance at 25-50 cents on the dollar or more and that's a better return than zero.

You will generally find that almost everywhere, including unincorporated counties that house urban cities, rooming houses or border loging is specifically prohibited OR includes specific permit regulations like obtaining a Conditional Use Permit.

It is border line blasphemy to call the Amarillo area North Texas, that is the Texas Panhandle.

Personally, I'd never write anything like this in a public forum (I'd never think it in the first place) as I think it dangerously borders on racism but to each their own.

I gambled what I could afford to lose, just I don't like losing.

Gambling on yourself in REI by liquidating your retirement without first having any experience, is very bad advice, imo. 

So I don't gamble on it. 

If you want to gamble on appreciation just go to the casino and put it all on red or black at the roulette table. 

Greetings all,I'm finding some good low cost, cash flowing properties in St Louis and on the Il side of the border.

If you follow the US-Canada border west, it's a straight line until it hits the Pacific, where it hooks down to accommodate the southern tip of Vancouver Island.