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Depends on what you are leveraging.  Buying real estate or building a business with leverage is entirely different than buying stocks on margin.

You can poo poo this concept all you want, but you would have a hard time driving by any business park and finding a company in there of any size that wasn't built with leverage.  It's the entire reason that banks ever came into existence in the first place.  They weren't conceived as savings institutions but as sources of capital to enable growth.  

My company has used debt to finance our growth since our inception and you'd be hard pressed to find others that didn't do the same.  If you are putting all of your own money at risk when growing a business, you'd be thought a fool.

Despite your edits of "quickly" and "at great risk" that is not what this is about.  Using leverage to grow a business isn't about getting rich quick at great risk by default.  That depends entirely on how much leverage you are using.  There are "reasonable" levels of debt for a business to carry to the point that in some cases not only is too much considered unhealthy, but also too little.

The point of my post is that OP should look at his situation and determine if it makes sense to have all that capital tied up in a single asset just to make 14.5%.  First, I bet his numbers are naively optimistic and second, that's a lot of exposure to take just for whatever that real number actually turns out to be.