If we are to be heard, understood, and eventually embraced (or more likely, at least disliked less) it will start with our ability to publicize the redevelopment of communities, the increase in property values, and the stimulation of the overall economy that investors and investors alone are able to provide.The thing is...

RE Investment awakens a sleeping giant, kills the dormant ignorance, and stimulates a passion for lifelong learning.

Counterintuitively, quantitative easing has not been very successful at stimulating inflation.

Of course your plan will be different but this might stimulate something.

Let me know if you have questions, I've done a little bit of everything - rentals, flips, now in development - and I've really enjoyed sharing ideas with members on BP to stimulate my thinking.

However, if you really want some more stimulating reading on the topic, you can go here: Understanding California

The issue has more to do with getting the right message in front if the right person at the right time and stimulating them to take a certain action like call you.

My philosophy in business is to always be thinking differently and outside the box in every aspect and provide all my resources to anything we may be invested in to harbor a positive relationship to stimulate growth as an activist investor.

@Jay S. who knows, it's possible that HomePath loans have had poor performance (delinquencies) due to the looser guidelines, or FNMA is no longer in as big a hurry to liquidate their REO (could be political pressure to tighten inventory and help prices continue to rise, creating a wealth effect to help stimulate the economy).

Just follow the fed, when they are cutting and stimulating there is a floor on assets, when they are trying to break things be liquid.