I like gambling analogies for real estate because, despite all the mumbo jumbo that sometimes gets thrown around, luck is a huge factor in your actual returns.

This means that someone took our rent check and deposited it or cashed it fraudulently.  

So, that's about my minimum for buying a rental.OTOH, I don't want to be dealing with a tenant for just $10 a month, even if that is getting me a 20% cash on cash return.As to your question, the number your asking about, in gambling terms, is called "variance".

Much of the price run up at that time was due to fraudulent, or artificial demand.

The money is swept out of the deposit account and placed into a different account of your choice to keep anything fraudulent from happening.

I took the gamble in 2011, because I knew prices were at multi-year lows.  

This sounds like it is gambling or drug related.

We travel for business; in our spare time, we gamble, visit museums, go to the beach, and watch movies and TV with video on demand via a high-speed connection.http://www.esri.com/data/esri_data/ziptapestry

Many of those sites take those claims seriously and can ban users posting fraudulently like that. 

There are two articles:  Link 1 and Link 2 At least 200 families in El Paso might have fallen victims to a real estate scam by an unlicensed company that is buying and selling homes without clear liens, according to Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, which is representing at least seven affected families.Texas RioGrande Legal Aid claims that brothers Geoffrey and Thomas Schober, owners of El Paso Home Buyers, buy and sell houses fraudulently through “wraparound” mortgages, which means the original homeowner's name is never taken off the mortgage."