The best way to explain it is thats its like playing poker for the first time. since its your first time you wouldn't just walk up to a poker table in a casino and drop 50 grand right off the top right?

What's your end game? Rent

I gave up writing, guitar, time with friends and family, video games (laugh if you must), poker, vacations, pleasure reading, dating my future wife (we live together but date nights are far and few). 

Fundamentally, the problem is that the model allows for "lenders" to dump loans to GSEs with little or no skin in the game. Rational

While gambling, I bring only waht I am willing to lose and have as much fun doing it as possible.On the other hand, when playing poker (which is not gambling in my book) water and red bulls rule.

Scott, the toker king......or was that poker king?  

A friend of mine showed me this website and I've been obsessively listening to the podcasts and lurking the forum for a couple weeks now.I'm from the west in the US, mainly Phoenix and Las Vegas, but have lived in a suburb of Madison, WI for the last 6 years.My wife and I have no debt, good credit, a little wiggle room each month, a few thousand cash, a few more thousand open credit cards, and a will to learn with a drive to succeed.I'm planning on attending the August 8th meeting at the Madison REIA and have reached out to a Real Estate agent and Lender in my area in an attempt to start building a network in this community.I'm a veteran of the 82nd airborne with a strong work ethic, and I played poker full-time in Las Vegas for a few years.

I get it that everyone wants to come to the party, especially now with prices having risen fairly dramatically, but sometimes I wonder if the Bigger Pockets room is akin to standing on the floor of a casino where a few people have won dramatic sums in some of the "skills" games (poker, blackjack, etc), and everyone else starts running out into the hallways begging for money to drop in the slot machine so they can get theirs too.Anyway, it seems an interesting philosophical question to ponder, and I'm curious what others may think!

Scott it's available, looks like a great poker house!

Im a poker player and am not adverse to risk.