i console myself by reminder that at least its toward investment as opposed to gambling or drinking etc, mehhh

It sounds like a dice throw to me, and I hate gambling on factors out of my control.

She may not but it is not in your best interest to gamble once a red flag has gone up.

No it doesn't make those choices correct when gambling.

Exactly right,Appreciation=Gambling  To be honest no one has a crystal ball and knows exactly what the market is going to do in the future.

Its super walkable, safe, architecturallly beautiful, there's great food, constant source of tenants due to the universities...I am not familiar enough with the other neighborhoods of Providence to take a gamble there yet, but am interested in studying Cranston.

Our agent is saying that there is pretty much no data to estimate what the appraisal will come in at, so it is completely gambling without this contingency in.

This also poses risk for short-term mortgages or ARMs.If you're going to hold rentals, my suggestion would be to set a longer-term time horizon unless you feel like gambling...

Not only are they scammers, but now they have some form of contact info of yours and can spam you to do death.There are more than 2 ways to fund deals. 

Contact Pataya Investments management Kindly Regards, Mary Ferguson    I took the hyperlink out so no spam could happen... you send these guys a business plan and within 48 hours you will be approved for 20 million just send us 50k for due diligence LOL