Take for example, how the AT&T break up worked out many decades back OR more recently eBay which was broke into 2 separate companies - thanks to activist investors - the market value balooned from 50 billion to 300 billion spread across two companies in eBay and PayPal.

I have researched that the Salvation Army has a real estate portfolio upwards of $4 Billion and seemingly there is little to no room for price negotiation after their official appraisals have been submitted (which happened).

s $17 billion plant — one of the largest foreign investments in U.S. history — by approving a slew of incentives for the company.https://www.bizjournals.com/au...

However, what was done is that the Fed bought hundreds of billions of dollars of bad assets from the bank - i.e. made their bad debt disappear!

Don't forget Bush and Cheney have large stakes in companies that were awarded tens of billions in defense contracts thanks to the war.

One gentleman used to be a hedge fund manager for a multi billion dollar company & he owns a lot of apartment buildings in CA.

I would argue those people maybe shouldn't have bought and maybe they would not have even qualified for a fixed so the "choice" was moot.I shudder to think of the billions (maybe trillions) that Americans have spent in interest on their fixed mortgages over the past 30 years because they felt like fixed was what they were supposed to do.

They did a total of 17 transactions with book values ranging from about $100 million to $1 billion.

It may just brighten up your day…. http://www.forbes.com/sites/randalllane/2012/03/26/warren-buffetts-50-billion-decision/

I have a friend who has a buyer that's looking for 1 Billion REO Tape in CA!!!