The agent may, in fact, be telling the truth and working in the buyer's best interest if the buyer doesn't want to gamble on a short sale.  

None of these specialties really relates to RE investing per se.What you do have are people skills and perhaps a nose for scammers, cheats, fraudulent low life types, that are in RE.

Same rules apply to your first deal as they should to gambling: only risk the amount you can afford to lose.

I worked in KC with Shaun Gamble from Veteran Home Inspection.

I don't gamble on future appreciation.

Appreciation 100% based on NOI.For a 5 year time frame I would not gamble on or rely on SFH appreciation.

Generally speaking, a primary residence shouldn't be considered an investment, as the cash flow is always going to be $0 in the best case (and if you purchased hoping for appreciation, you were just gambling).So, assuming you like your house, plan to live there long-term and it's paid off, why be concerned with the short-term valuation?

General consensus around here that I have seen is that:Buy and hold guys don't want the liability of a tenant getting sick or claiming to get sick from exposure to some area that missed treatment, or the soil in the yard if it has some unknown contamination.And flippers aren't willing to gamble that they got it waaay low enough to take the back end discount that they will need to likely take to get a end buyer to purchase.That is what I've seen pretty much every time this question has been posed in the past.

Everything is a gamble,, just be ready.

Hello everyone,How do you decide whether a deal is fraudulent?