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20 June 2020 | 15 replies
With all the competition from DC, MD, PA, NY, DE they are doomed until they find a new business model not involving gambling.
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9 October 2018 | 9 replies
Seattle especially is pretty much all gambling on appreciation at this point, as the properties are valued so high that cash flow is extremely low to actually being negative.
3 March 2018 | 7 replies
The weird thing was the fraudulent emails had my closing $ amount exactly correct.
14 March 2018 | 6 replies
That is gambling.
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18 March 2018 | 4 replies
"Gambling" that the value of the asset will increase also has its risks.
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20 March 2018 | 3 replies
No way to make money on that deal if there is no equity and if it is underwater.If you could get it for $0 down with her carrying the mortgage, and it would cash flow well, it would still be a gamble to consider but the risk would still be on her.
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22 March 2018 | 10 replies
If you really want to gamble your risks would be lower at the race track.
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16 April 2018 | 41 replies
Try walking into your bank and asking for a 30 year loan to buy some bitcoin lol.Personally feel like bitcoin is nothing more than gambling.
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22 April 2018 | 9 replies
If my card is stolen/fraudulent charges, then I don't have any capital (only that credit amount) tied up during the dispute period.
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30 April 2018 | 3 replies
You can somewhat 'play' with that scenario by upping your appreciation input, but to me that is gambling if you push it too high.