Yeah one of my clients is fixing to assume a 7 million construction loan from a bank that has a cap of 3 billion being bought out by a bank with a cap of 13 billion.The larger bank is in growth mode.

. :^) http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-20/freddie-mac-selling-1-billion-of-loans-in-largest-deal

hey this sucks, I have too much formal education" Maybe they felt it..Ron Popeil, pocket fisherman, set it and forget it oven guy, he wrote a book - paraphrasing now...he made 100s of millions, and said that he would have made billions had he had a formal business education. 

Dan Gilbert ceo of Quicken has invested billions in detroit and has bought large commercial buildings  pennies on the dollar it takes vision,and guts.

Take Orlando for example.. nearly 5 billion dollars of commercial investment is under construction RIGHT NOW, not including the THOUSANDS of new home sales that is going on, all the while, existing home sales are still appreciating.

In Q1 of 2015, $55 billion of outflows from equities according to this article.  

It wasn't worth a billion dollars but it was/is enough so that I haven't had to return to work as a nurses aide and I'm able to focus on school and raising my daughter.

I never used direct mail, but I know it must work as they sure use it.If I want to "find" a note I do so locally, there is probably a half billion in notes within a 100 miles of me, I can't buy them all, at least at par.

KC = Kansas city, which has some great fundamentals going on especially with that new $4 billion  Cerner development going in south KC.  

http://www.har.com/content/newsroomHouston Real Estate Highlights in April Single-family home sales declined a fractional 0.6 percent compared to last April;On a year-to-date basis, single-family home sales are up 1.6 percent;Total property sales declined 2.0 percent to 7,583 units;Total dollar volume fell 1.6 percent to $2.01 billion;At $278,544, the single-family home average price was down 1.0 percent compared to last April;The single-family home median price rose 3.3 percent year-over-year to an all-time April high of $217,000;Single-family homes months of inventory climbed to a 3.6-months supply versus 2.9 months a year earlier;Townhome/condominium sales fell 12.6 percent with the average price up 4.1 percent to $206,832 and the median price up 7.3 percent to $153,450;Leases of single-family homes leapt 18.1 percent with rents up 2.6 percent to $1,811;Leases of townhomes/condominiums soared 26.0 percent with rents down 1.7 percent to $1,574.