Heard on TV that Apple has more cash on hand right now than the treasury.

The former board consisted of the majority owners that voted themselves into the President & Treasury role, with one other owner acting as Secretary (he quit also I believe, but he remains an active owner).

I have known multimillion dollar investors who have paid little to no tax using depreciation to wipe out rental income, 1031 to defer capital gain, and cash out re-fi to get cash out of the appreciation of your property without paying 20% to your other silent business partner "the us treasury"

I wrote a similar letter to the Treasury Dept. when the "toxic assets" where to be auction thru the TARP platform w/o inclusion of small and disadvantaged businesses.If you agree,  let's see if we can do this.

Yeah I wouldn't say they're back. 275 - 300 bps over the treasury is not all that appealing.

US Treasury securities now backed the US National Currency and standardized practices of US national banks.

Just consider that if you are shopping rates that they change constantly. 10 year Treasury is a good bellwether for mortgage rates and if you see decent changes in that from the time you get one mortgage quote to another you are no longer comparing apples to apples.Also, find out the rate to wrap fees into a loan(or as many as you can) and without. 

BP Team -As the 10 year treasury hovers barely above 2% MF yield spreads have expanded from the dark days of the end of 2018 and early this year.

I was just wondering if it would be possible to short US treasuries and use proceeds to fund a property as an alternative form of finance.

According to FRED, the 10 yr minus the 2 yr treasury has maintained a positive balance in this cycle (even though it is very low around 0.15~0.2).https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10Y2Y#0We're certainly in unpredictable times since this cycle has just passed the previous longest one (in the '90s) and we may be seeing a new fundamental regarding recession predictability.My research agrees with @Michael Ealy and @Michael Glaspie that real estate (especially multifamily) is historically resilient during a recession and is not an important factor for the true long term investor.