but in my view it makes a relatively "safe" investment in cash flowing real estate into a gamble on appreciation.    

One learns very quickly and unfortunately usually the hard way that cash tenants are a huge gamble and that section 8 is the only way to find healthy, consistent, positive cash flow in Detroit and many of the other inner cities accross America.

I can still tell who is spam and who is real.  

I hear what you're saying about the cost to make them habitable but I don't think that will be considered a gamble when you're looking backwards a few years from now. 

But these come rarely.Do you really want to gamble with your money time and effort on luck?

I can’t stand spam calls or texts and they have gotten out of control in this country.

All recent increases and near-term future increases are just gambling.

We specialize in taking on the calls/texts/emails/spam/solicitations so landlords don't need to. 

Don't know don't care.You are gambling with a lot of time and effort and if you are anything like me?

These "wholesalers are bad people" threads are so very similar to spam it's scary.