I used to live near Pasadena and absolutely LOVE the charm of all those historical craftsman homes, especially the Gamble House ... unfortunately, this was before I became a RE investor.

I knew I was gambling when I mentioned money but I've seen plenty of posts asking for advice and only receiving welcoming messages with no substance so I wanted to get some response, even if it was just fishing. 

I use my car for a lot of personal and a lot of business use as well - however, I would not be willing to gamble that I use it more than 50% for business - we do ALOT of road trips year round.2.

In fact you will be in a position where you will need to keep feeding the beast from a thousand miles away to not lose your total stake.Or everything could work out perfectly but do you really want to gamble on that?

I've seen writing contests for properties but never a raffle which would (in NYS) be considered gambling (games of chance) and also involving US Postal service which gosh they have rules about all sorts of stuff you can/can't do via mail. 

Having an ARM, you might be taking a bit of a gamble and hoping that the Fed will not increase rates.

The average DOM is 30 days and 30 days to close with a conventional buyer.Bob has a gambling problem, and Guido is going to break every bone in Bob's body if he doesn't cough up $50,000 by Monday.

I went in and truely gambling with appreciation for 2 years, bought 315k live in as primary residence,exactly 2 years I sold it 550k tax free 2005 .

I am particularly happy with both Freda Davis and Brittany Gamble who encouraged me and assured me that I could be successful as a real estate investor.

That means, I would be gambling on the NOVA/WDC appreciating, but never a gartunee.