But the investment will probably pay off.
"The pressure of this will probably pay off later for us".
If they turn the house into a home and live there for several decades, their gamble will probably pay off.
Money from those deals probably paid off large portions of the advance, said Charlie Winton, chief executive of the Avalon Publishing Group.
That can be an annoyance — and expensive — but it will probably pay off once the apartment is on the market, Ms. Aalai says.
Gloomy and bloody prose might not impress the city authorities finding a writer in residence, but they'll probably pay off in the long term.
Some critics said that film, a fantasy from 20th Century Fox, was a knockoff of the Harry Potter franchise, but Fox played up the similarity in advertisements, a decision that box-office analysts said probably paid off.
Three years on, no horns have appeared on my forehead, I have probably paid off more of our mortgage than they have, and I consider it to have been one of my better financial moves.
The turmoil in the financial market may force some companies to cut back on office space for a while, but in the long-term these investments will probably pay off, said Nick Axford, head of research and consulting at CB Richard Ellis.
Credit-card companies like students "because they have parents who will probably pay off their debt if there is a problem," even though parents generally have no legal obligation to do so, said Bill Hardekopf, the chief executive of LowCards.com, which tracks credit-card rates.
