Otherwise, you can get overly conservative and talk yourself out of an otherwise viable class-c investment.Personally,  I elect to treat is as the "anti-up" cost to enter the poker game and thus my ROI is an actual year/year result.

Just like at the poker table or when you're dealing in real estate, if you don't know who's the sucker, you're it.

I have been playing poker professionally for the last 10 years and am looking for something new.

Keep in mind that these attorneys probably play golf, poker, gym, whatever with 1-2 realtor friends who also have cash buyers. 

I got my money the same way as HokieGreg, through poker the last year or so.

Not unlike poker, you want to make decisions that bend the odds to your favor, jumping in and blindly buying just because you want to get that first investment under your belt does not stack the odds in your favor.Being young, this is the time to make mistakes and learn from them, but it's also the time that will be most difficult to recover from mistakes. 

Of course, I am not interested in something that is risky AND requries a high degree of technical knowledge because I just dont have it.I've been playing poker for 4 years now, and I have no symptoms of degeneracy.

I've had moderate success as a poker player and as a currensy trader.

Like poker, if done correctly, real estate is a grind. 

Rehabbing is a lot like poker.