What alot of developers are doing today is leveraging their stock portfolio to add financial horse power to the deal.

As an investor with cash, you hold a powerful position.

I suppose you could point to the rise of Hitler, but this seems to me to be a coup and a rise to power, typical of power shifts, and not really widespread civil violence due to deteriorating economic conditions.

Oliver,I spent much of today (yes Saturday) meeting with an attorney over a partnership dispute on behalf of a friend (I have power of attorney over his affairs).

Knowledge is power!

@Doug Pretorius I totally agree with you however I would hypothesize that there are some powerful persuasive dynamics that are present when negotiating an offer to purchase that are lacking in an option to purchase. 

Well they  are recorded at the county.. most large counties will have some techy guy that sells a list.one of the west coast power houses in this arena is getting ready to go nationwide and when that happens you will have it all on your phone.. 

I really saw the power of real estate when she sold a mobile home on 2 acres in SC for ~$100,000 profit.

I am still a fairly new investor and am still working on building my power team. 

This gives them power to have their own business, right?