While it is capital intensive. I recently purchased a foreclosed home for $63,500. I only put $11,000 down. Everything Elise was on a line of credit. I made the repairs and sold the property within 8 weeks for $125k. I leveraged everything from most of the purchase to the improvements and made 300%+ on my measly $11,000 cash.
Now, I will say, I didn’t plan on making that much, I understand the market I’m in, and I also had an exit plan plus a contingent plan to refinance if it didn’t sell and just rent it out.
To your overall point, there is risk in any investment we make. But there is also reward.