Many of my neighbors are legal immigrants (doctors) and are EXTREMELY intelligent and successful.

There have been plenty of horrible people who have been tremendously intelligent and we have the ability to learn from them.

Great book on financial intelligence.

Obvioulsy, any halfway intelligent investor will be quite leary of taking any position beyond 2 and 3 would be the tops in my opinion. 2.

In the front plant some evergreen shrubs (I buy them at the end of the season for $9.99 for the five gallon) and plant an invasive groud cover around it (packasandra or something like that).It would help to know where these properties are because you could use Xeriscaping or artificial turf if you are in Vegas or AZ.

Let the lemmings run gold up to $2,500 I will be buying real estate in 2010 and then when the lemmings come back in 2011 or 2012 I take the artificial pop in my net worth ...

Now, setting aside what an alien race would think of our intelligence level as soon as they starting picking up stray transmissions of Three's Company and The Love Boat, we have to assume any aliens capable of traveling to our planet are far more advanced and most likely have been sending THEIR radio waves into space for much longer.

In fact, “the main reason for the drop [in REO inventory] has been the artificially low pace of REO acquisitions associated with increasing foreclosure timelines/delays.”

He's just really intelligent, helpful and knowledgeable.  

Daniel Toshner at first glance it would appear that that is an artificial limit based on the jumbo loan threshold, however, if your primary is in Seattle, the jumbo loan limit is much higher than that.I'd recommend shopping around and seeing who is able to meet your needs at the best price.