Never in a billion years would I have thought my first post would be in the COMMERCIAL section.

OK, so now the conversation just got extra interesting...You're thinking that bigger players will come in with their billion-dollar funds and just start buying in bulk?

This meaning investors in the millions not the billions.

At the Craigslist forums they are closing in on 2 billion mostly useless posts. 300K here is FAR more valuable.

From the link in his signature, his site says "Our professional, experienced home buyers have processed more than $100 billion in property since 2002..." so maybe his intent is to pool large amounts of private investor funds and behave like the busted investors in your post http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/50/topics/55532-please-be-careful-when-raising-funds-sec-cease-and-desist-letter-.

"High frequency" trading firms use super-fast processors and trading algorithms designed and tweaked by PhD's in real time every single day to rake tens of billions of dollars out of the pockets of average investors each year, through manipulation of bid/ask spreads and direct data pipes into the major exchanges.

So this scenario can be an great investment for flip and rehab people plus manufacturer of mobile homes.I heard today over $1 billion damage, thats huge.

I have extensive experience in real estate investing- started a national mortgage bank in 99 grew it to 1.6 billion a year in loan volume- during that time i also grew title company.

I think a lot of this will have to do with the type of BP member.For me being a commercial real estate broker I have massive technology I am already using for SEO.A friend of mine has his own technology company and is a broker in another state.He has sold billions of real estate.I have contact manager,posting to 50 social networking sites at once,videos,blogs,article content submissions,texting platform,unlimited websites and lead capture pages and on and on.The benefit to me with BP is to hook up with quality individuals.

When billion dollar account managers can use computer programs to execute trades in micro seconds, (took some knowledge to put that together!)