More news from Wall Street JOurnal todayWall Street is betting that more well-off Americans will want to be renters.Financiers who loaded up on homes after the housing bust for pennies on the dollar are buying yet more—despite home prices in many markets being at all-time highs.Their wager: High prices, higher mortgage rates and skimpy inventory are making homeownership harder.

I'd wager the major VA colleges -- VT, UVA, VCU, etc -- are well saturated with investors.

I'd even be willing to make a small wager that honestly reported he is making maybe 2- 3%/ year on that property as an actual return if he hasn't kept up with rent increases. 

Those that exist are super pricey and the cap rate is super low for even blue collar areas.So right now given the lack of realistic multis to parlay into, I'm considering just eating the tax.

Would love to Transition into some house flips and parlay the cash into buy-and-hold real estate. 

This push parlayed with residents looking to escape higher-priced neighborhoods/taxes to the East, has driven JP home prices at a 17% higher clip than Chicago's average residential increase - stat from the above article. 

I'd wager that a high percentage of evictions are due to health issues.

But I’m willing to wager that with the same amount of effort and cash, you will be able to leverage the experience of professionals, to build something of your own that perfectly fits your financial goals, limits risk to you and your family, and is repeatable if you somehow lost it all just because you chose the “hard” route.

But for every success story of buying on credit I would wager there are ten where the buyer was under capitalized/ over leveraged and unexperienced and got left holding the bag.

We parlayed up until we have a nice, paid for home and now use the line of credit on it to buy flips.