Eight billion dollars are withheld each WEEK by employees IRA/401k's!

Bill Lange siad he got one billion from Desmond TuTu from Africa..

I go to sales and bid on behalf of the bank, backed by $4 billion in assets and as many cashier's checks as I want but, if the mom and pop first time investor come to bid, and bid more than I'm willing to spend, I walk away.

@Lois Read "When Genius Failed"   Synopsis:  Two Professors who won the Nobel price for a nifty financial theory blew out a $4 BILLION dollar hedge fund.

@Joshua Dorkin so cool - I'd like one in my NYC apt - probably would command 5 billion dollars in more rent. :) 

But there is about 2 billion dollars of RE development going on right now (mostly east toward (and over) the Schuylkill River and Penn/Drexel Universities)... so the secret's out!  

If we are talking markets like CA, HI and NYC it is probably more like $1 billion that you would need.

You would need to know the credit of the bank, cap volume ( example is at a 100 million bank,10 billion, 100 billion etc.)You need rent increase for a bank which is typically 2% a year.

Wachovia just raised $7 Billion from existing shareholders and cut their dividend.

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