If you are buying smart, your exposure to risk is quite small - if that wasn't the case, no one would buy houses, period, whether to live in, hold and speculate, flip, rent out, etc.

No idea.. just speculation on my part.

Appreciation in any market is fairly speculative.

I don't want to be a speculator with selling prices.

Brandon always mentions that appreciation is like gambling and a speculation.

Markets are unpredictable, so it is hard to speculate what something will be in the future.

Lastly my advice is always dont invest for appreciation, its nice to have but its largely speculative think of it as the icing on the cake if it happens thats great, but don't bank on it

I would speculate that Seattle doesn't have that same landscape either with there being a high 'floor' present in the metro area. 

I got awesome deals, but I was also speculating on the Beltline (major project in Atlanta) coming in across the street and making the prices shoot up.

You’d borrow 203k in hopes of making 197$ a month .. that’s pretty pathetic of a return This idea of making 23 grand in x amount of years is speculation because You have no idea that is going to happen sir .