We do a mixture of 2 and 4.

A guy who buyes your corn at the silo could be an agent or broker, while he sells commodities like we sell homes as wholesalers, we don't use the same terms since that would imply a real estate agent.

As I said above, you can seel an option to sell or buy anything, gas, oil, wheat, soy beans, corn, steel, coal, etc.

Real estate is not corn, this is not a futures market!

That's why the senator from Iowa rallies for the "corn syrup" growers.

You'd learn more about the fundamentals of real estate investing from a corn farmer in Iowa than one of these cognoscenti.Tim

Owens Corning, which are cheaper yet.

Bryan and others I can help you understand this more.When I worked on the residential side I completed thousands of BPO's over the years.BPO's are completed for many different reasons such as bank bulk sale of regular,non-performing,or a pooled mixture of loans,mortgage insurance drops,insurance damage claim,refinances,short sales,etc.A BPO can be an exterior bpo whereby a broker or agent is asked to take 1 pic of mailbox,1 of street,and 1 of the subject and give usually 3 actives and 3 solds with pics and occasionally the comps are without pics.This report usually pays only 30.00 to 65.00 depending on how fast the BPO mill wants it turned in.Usual turn around times are 3 days and rushes are in 24 to 48 hours.An interior BPO is where you do everything listed above but also go inside of the property at take at least 8 interior pictures including any damage noted.An interior usually pays from 60 to 105 per order.The reason BPO reports take so long is say I get a bpo interior order for 50.00.The turn around time is 3 days.If everything goes perfect I turn the order in to the BPO mill who then puts through a quality control review.

I'm familiar with this in soy bean country, but I think you'll be wanting corn.....what's up?

Yes, it would be impossible to find a CD at 5%--I was just assuming that I could get 5% in a mixture of investments.