I guess, more about me, I said I ride a motorcycle, ride a cruiser and a twin engine honda dual sport.

I would say that buying in a market like this is a huge gamble, but you can't deny that along with skyrocketing purchase prices, rents have also gone through the roof.

As a fan (nerd) of sports statistics, maybe I should have stopped with this one call and finished my career with a 1.000 batting average...but I digress!

Friends, family, schoolmates, religious friends, frat brothers, sports buddies, people from your neighborhood, teachers, and anyone you do business with now, barber, preacher, car mechanic, professors, etc. 

They seem to have no problem gambling, but putting money on their own investing ability seems to give them all kinds of self doubts.  

You should know better.Let me again show you exactly what DMM is and how it traps you into bankruptcy especially for beginners.Orange line is your potential profits,  and the blue line is the potential Cost/deal.Unless you are sending 10,000 mailers, you are gambling and you know what they say about gambling.

A land of sports teams and broken dreams.

Wanted to introduce myself in here and see if anyone in the Tampa area is wanting to connect whether it is about real estate, life, sports, etc.

Very inspiring thread. and to me the theme is the money is made buying low value add sell high.. and or the dreaded APPRECIATION .. who ever coined APPRECIATION is gambling needs to read this thread.. 

Possible downsides include putting all of our initial investment into a single property, we might not be able to find a property in our price-range, and taking a bit of a gamble on occupancy.2.