It sounds like a dice throw to me, and I hate gambling on factors out of my control.

She may not but it is not in your best interest to gamble once a red flag has gone up.

No it doesn't make those choices correct when gambling.

Exactly right,Appreciation=Gambling  To be honest no one has a crystal ball and knows exactly what the market is going to do in the future.

Its super walkable, safe, architecturallly beautiful, there's great food, constant source of tenants due to the universities...I am not familiar enough with the other neighborhoods of Providence to take a gamble there yet, but am interested in studying Cranston.

Our agent is saying that there is pretty much no data to estimate what the appraisal will come in at, so it is completely gambling without this contingency in.

This also poses risk for short-term mortgages or ARMs.If you're going to hold rentals, my suggestion would be to set a longer-term time horizon unless you feel like gambling...

I like to INVEST in real estate, not GAMBLE.....

They must have visited Philadelphia wearing apparel from non-Philadelphia sports teams; that will get you mistreated in many places in Philadelphia.

Happy long-term tenants are worth their weight in gold, so making that move before the impact of this new company is truly known is a bit of a gamble.