I have always thought that was a gamble not worth taking, and it is even more risky in this time of rising interest rates. 

Yes things do fall out of the sky and no matter how much attention you pay to detail Murphy is bound to be around one day - so protect against that instead of gambling (*like some share investors do) 

I would follow it if i were in the US or Uk, but im in the Dominican Republic (island in the carribbean next to Puerto Rico and Cuba) and here nobody cares about the amount of cash you are able to pull monthly, if it isn't a fixed income, getting house buying level laons will be hard... banks will only give me the kind of loans i want if  they see i have a stable job (fixed income monthly) .

It was a bit of a gamble up front because I paid for it myself entirely while pretty much all of my classmates had tuition reimbursement through their employers (for instance, a few of my classmates worked for Disney,  who pay their full-time employees 75% of their education costs.

To gamble on appreciation like many are doing in Dallas here now.

It is the myths of a deeply misguided society that spends its time keeping up with the Kardashians and spends billions of dollars a year on online gambling that tells us there is such a thing as life happiness and contentment, and my personal favorite, becoming "a success."

:) Suggested above was to get a couple winners first and then maybe take the low end gamble.

I bought them on the gamble that I could get them reduced.  

In Vegas, you at least know what you are gambling on.

How many investors out there have let fear of losing money, stop them from taking a gamble on a property?