You swap them out on a fairly regular basis either as preventative measure when they are nearing the end of their life, or as a restorative measure when they break.  

We all go to the same trade shows, use alot of the same vendors, swap employees, sit together at educational seminars, etc.

I want to swap wholesaling ideas with other investors.From what I understand, I do not have to use any of my personal information to wholesale.

There are all sorts of potential scenarios you could do for this one.Yet another option would be to do a straight swap.

have you looked on different book swap sites to see if there are any real estate ones?

., owned by Leon Black's Apollo Management LP, has at least $875 million of debt that has an 89 percent chance of defaulting within five years, credit-default swaps tracked by London-based CMA DataVision indicate.

The pain cannot all fall to the banks.Or, we have to find anyone who sold a house at a bubble price, or a dot com stock at their bubble price and get the money back.Again, I'll say I'd rather see the feds buy equity in these companies than buy their crap bonds, CMOs, CDOs, SIVs, debt swaps, or whatever they call them.

They do have to mark it down to reflect the reduced value.They've further complicated the picture by putting CDS (credit default swaps) into the mix.

the house swap thread?

They use terms like securitization, deleveraging, structured investment vehicles and credit default swaps.