Will a billion followers on twitter ever equate to more business (especially in real estate) or am I wasting energy focusing on this?

You can't start self managing and control the cash etc. with no track record versus a company with 2,000,000 sq ft under it's portfolio and 30 years in the business and expect the CMBS lender to go for that.Some of the larger CMBS lenders we have worked with do billions a year in CMBS.        

The "sell my house [location]" ones tend to be more people who are less motivated and will likely go the agent or FSBO route first.... but def could down the line when they can't sell end up working w/ you (but now you're competing against a billion agents for that phrase which is a bit more difficult). 

Over the last five years ago our government has been pumping in billions of dollars into the economy.

"Corporate landlords have raised more than $20 billion to buy as many as 200,000 homes in the past two years, creating a new institutional asset class out of the traditional mom-and-pop business of single-family rentals."

She is my hero she took a 1,000 loan and created a half billion dollar real estate empire.Later this month I am meeting Kevin O'Leary, Mr Wonderful in New Orleans.

Portfolio: 400 resiential properties mostly single-famly house spread across California with current market value of $1.2 billion (as of Feb 2008).

The current low rates coupled with the 100s of billions of dollars that the feds are going to print this year is setting us up for some scary high rates in the future.

We didn't invade Chicago, we didn't destroy it, We're not spending billions of bucks on it.

. $2 billion+ from Manchester developments, $1 billion+ on seaport village (including a proposed beach downtown), ~$800 million into Horton Plaza, plus a couple of $100 million dollar developments (such as ritz at 7th and market, and 3 similar developments I know of).