To me it seems like a gamble.

Church Hill is one of the top up and coming neighborhoods but the deals are in the rough sections, which may get gentrified but it's a long wait and sort of a gamble in my opinion.I'm looking for a SFR now to live in and rehab, preferably in any decent area.

I like the concept of real estate being able to control a tangible asset that can have multiple sources of profit where as stocks is slightly above gambling. 

(BP does tend to shake its collective head at such a "gambling" approach).Me?

So, if you are comfortable with month-to-month and gamble on what happens after closing, then do nothing.

Stock and crypto are legalized gambling, as far as I am concerned and, like @Scott Trench, I am sure glad that my retirement is based heavily on real estate. 

I don't chase other women, go out drinking all night, spend money on gambling, or things like that. 

@Sheila Campbell I'm risk adverse... read that as willing to gamble.

@Andy Rousch Branson is like old-people Vegas in the Midwest...except instead of gambling they have an excess of theatres, and amusement parks hahaha.

It could appreciate but I consider that gambling.