Yet, many still gamble.We've heard businesses like In n Out was coming to town, Silverton Casinos promised a new Casino coming in by the Spring Mountain Racetrack as you enter Pahrump, and there's been talk of Harness Racing coming to Pahrump since Nevada is a gaming state but there's no horse racing anywhere and Pahrump is an excellent locationf for that which would bring in lots of revenue and create lots of jobs.

I can't promise that I'll be able to publish any conculusions - BUT, I will point out some very public data about the site, and let you draw some conclusions on it:The "New Member Introductions" tab has less than 15,000 topics.BiggerPockets boasts over 218,000 members on its homepage.One may infer that under 7% of members have introduced themselves in that forum.What does that tell us about the success rate of that 7%?  

Also, is it a hassle to park at casinos?

These homes boast so much history, that we fall in love with that, but the "integrity" and the cost to maintain that, may outweigh the lower cost.

@Jason White,My first impulse is to say no matter how much you have available you'll want to invest for income in retirement to ensure that your money is growing at such a rate that you drawing your living expenses from it will not deplete the principal during your expectable lifetime.You may want to read up on self-directed retirement accounts and other ways of being a private money lender.My personal thoughts on buying property with no loans is that its roughly equivalent to gambling in the Wall Street Casino.

The only shortcuts are ones like walking into a Vegas casino and risking way too much.

those areas are closer to the river (casinos), closer to 95...northern liberties is a trend thats on its downside considering the amount of money pouring into the area over the past decade is just criminal....kinda tough to get in there for a profit.if you are stuck on a multi-family in north philly...look around temple.

My friends sit around and smoke cigars with me and we ***** about living in Cook County when free America is 30 minutes away and they ***** about their job at JP Morgan Chase and I ***** about no profit in contracting and we both ***** about how we're not getting enough cashflow and they ***** about how their Logan Square condos that aren't performing and then we ***** about the new Bond theme song that isn't as good as the one from Casino Royale and then we see a hot girl walk by and then we ***** about why hot girls congregate in blue states and then we talk about guns.

I could however as you say ,put effort in taking a test rather than boasting a guru, but that's not a viable option for most people and for me.

No doubt, the majority of these posts are written with good intentions but we all make mistakes (including me) so as the old axiom says, “trust but verify.”Be especially careful of undaunted advice and knowledge spewed by people who boast their credentials via “personal testimony,” because that is just what it is... personal testimony.