I just try to buy properties where the land value alone is significant or speculatively will be.

Though that's all pure speculation on my end.

Quote from @Leo Ray:Yeah, I agree it's possible to make reasonably accurate appreciation projections (though, even experts get it wrong)...either way, the bigger the speculation, the bigger the person's net worth needs to be to absorb the hit if the speculation is inaccurate.Warren Buffet can afford some speculative plays...most of us are not Warren Buffet.I agree this is not for everyone.

Investors get nothing but coins for their investment and can only receive what the speculative market pays them. 

This is not the time to be speculating and making Lowball Offers.Your Realtor is wasting a lot of uncompensated time with you.

However, what we can do inside HomeVestors is give data to backup the ability to be successful over time, and what a given advertising spend should relate to leads/contracts/purchases in a given area (plus all the other benefits)  Nothing is perfect, but in any speculative industry knowledge is power, right, and certainly allows for increase in probability of success.I wont apologize for stating a fact about someone who spent 7k on advertising without receiving any leads.  

They cried and got Hundreds of Billions of dollars because speculative and honest home buyers can not pay their mortgage.

Make no mistake: syndications are highly speculative investments in a PROMOTER with limited upside, but the very real chance of losing your entire principal that are suitable ONLY for highly-experienced investors who understand the risk level and what it means to have no access to your capital once invested for 5 or more years after the investment.

There’s no point in buying on speculation that it’ll appreciate at this time.

I've been in the industry for over 20 years now and every so often there s speculation of a threat just like this.