The point is that there is no way to "predict the Market" in the Future.

If you had a crystal ball and could predict that it would be in the future, it would be worth buying all these cheap properties in Aberdeen.

What are you predictions? 

People have been predicting a crash for three years.

I agree that doing your due diligence upfront should allow you to account for majority of the costs to ensure your going to make money the second you buy, but what about some of the hidden unexpected costs that you can't always predict?

Always tough to predict so early

We're predicting that the worst case scenario within the lending industry is that investor loans will be at 70% full doc, in which even our properties will require 10% down (And t-bone- in this case- after putting $16,000 down to get the loan, your BMC Atlanta property will most likely have your $50 positive cash flow).

It involved rental of a time share via the management company that sold the time share to the taxpayers and screwed the taxpayers by renting their units (predictably) last.

After all, we're talking about predicting the future here, and I don't think we're disagreeing that much.

We can somewhat predict worst case scenarios and insure against them.