this is one of the billion threads on BP regarding this topic. just letting you know.

You can compare a book to a multi billion dollar company and pretend that they are the same thing, but they are not.Marketing is my thing, I am very good an owner financing, and other parts of real estate investing, but marketing is my gig.

I started at $900K, the realtor accidentally countered at $1,900,000,000.00 (1.9 billion), I still have that paper saved, haha.

Hoping to find a company that does direct lending and 100% of the servicing (cause working with a billion companies after the deal sucks) but I'm not holding my breath. 

The Miami Dolphins were the only team to vote against the move, a source told Schefter.The Raiders will still play in Oakland in 2017 and possible longer.With a 65,000-seat, $1.9 billion domed stadium to be shared with UNLV not expected to open until 2020, Raiders owner Mark Davis has told ESPN he plans on staying in Oakland the next two seasons.

One economic study expects that 66 percent of the population, or 2.5 billion people, will reside in urban areas by 2050.As young people finish school, they are increasingly delaying marriage, kids and mortgages, which had been seen as a rite of passage into adulthood for previous generations.

Look at it this way, If you bought a bought a billion dollar property and didn't sell it before year end would it make sense for you to declare a billion dollar lose this year?

Facebook has over 1 billion users on it, I'd say it's time to take advantage of that!

To provide every American household with decent, affordable housing, given the large and widening gap between incomes and housing costs, will require vastly more government subsidies than we now devote to housing - the exact amount of course depends on what kinds of programs, what systems of financing, ownership, development and management we choose (the more market-oriented, the larger the cost; the more we create a social housing sector, the smaller the cost), but think along the lines of $80-100 billion annually.

So, why is McDonalds still spending billions on advertising?