I will agree with the general sentiment that you can get WAY better bang for your buck in many other markets throughout the country.

Conflicts are difficult.Anyway, I agree with the sentiment of "winning the war, not the battle".

Stock market soaring, homes selling like crazy, home prices up, 195k new jobs created last month, corporate profits healthy, consumer sentiment at multi year highs, etc, etc.

I would express these exact sentiments to him and ask him what he thinks would be an equitable compensation based on what he has brought to the table.

I sense some anti-apple sentiment in some responses.

Thank you for your sentiments!

See investors can be sentimental about properties they hold after all.

So the loan portfolios are priced according to the market expectation of future defaults.With the current sentiment in the toilet and pricing of default swaps sky high, I can not see that the actual defaults can exceed the current expected defaults.

I agree with Ron Paul's sentiments about foriegn policy.

Clearly we are on a real estate site and the sentiment will flow toward the real estate side.