So that's the gamble part.

Here is a link to what I am talking about on HOUZZ (the biggest, most popular source for professionally designed interior photos on the web).

I could see Saugerties becoming more like Rhinebeck in the future (a place for people with money to retire after living in the city), but that would be the gamble...who knows how long that will take, if it ever happens (and I'm not saying I'd necessarily WANT that to happen to the Saugerties community - it's great right now in part because it hasn't become a "village disneyland").One thing I'm noticing is that a lot of places currently on the market in Saugerties were bought in the early or mid 2000's, before the crash, at pretty inflated prices.

I could *potentially* understand holding onto a property that breaks even after ALL expenses (P&I, Repairs, Cap Ex, Management, etc) if there's a good possibility of appreciation due to some sort of gentrification in the neighborhood but remember appreciation is never guaranteed so it's more of a gamble. 

Its hard to tell the real from the fake on the web.

If your not in control of the upswing what you buy is a gamble.  

I don’t consider what I do gambling.

Holding for appreciation is always a gamble but with the run up in values in NYC and surrounding boros... holding now and counting on much further appreciation is an even bigger gamble. 

I wish that freely available education materials on the web could someday lead to dramatically lower costs of higher education here in America.  

In fact I can’t think of any RI-specific sources that would only apply to RI and not other states.Classic strategies for finding motivated sellers include direct mail, SEO/web advertising, telephone pole (aka “bandit”) signs, door hangers, driving for dollars, etc.As far as getting lists to direct market to, buying them from list brokers is popular, as is driving around yourself, trawling public records sites (see ripropinfo.com) etc.