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An apartment complex bought four years ago at 90,000 dollars a unit is now on the table at 8,000. That is below what the land alone is worth. The building sits 100 percent vacant. And here is why someone would still buy it. Fixing it runs 20 to 30,000...

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Because the land price is still inflated & propped up by data center buying. As if watching Covid get turned into blatant profiteering & tyranny. Now watching these assholes bastardize Prof Werner’s BoJ solution is infuriating. “A park worth more than California”- Pof Werner “BoJ should’ve bought the land & shifted credit creation back to small banks & away from consumer demand inflation” How was Repo in winter of 19 Jeff? Seeing pictures yet?

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One can finance any apartment building in America. Every single one, no matter the occupancy.

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Is the guy in the video Mr. Roper?

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This is why I sleep at 94% silver. Be the buyer when someone else has to sell.

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umm... the land value is far over-valued as well. cities need to wise up or they will all go bankrupt

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And I have come to understand why family is the road into that fullness, why it is not one path among many but the one most fitted to the shape of the promise. Consider who is praying. Christ does not come to us as a lone figure dropped out of the sky. He comes out of a family older than the world, the eternal communion of Father and Son, the love between them so total and so alive that theologians dared to call it a third person. Before there was anything, there was a family. The deepest fact about reality is not a force or a law or a void. It is a household. It is begetting and being begotten, giving and receiving, a Father who is only a Father because there is a Son. So when Jesus speaks of joy made complete, he is not pointing away from family toward something higher. He is pointing toward the very thing he came from, the life he has known from eternity and came to share. His joy is the joy of belonging utterly to a Father and pouring himself out for those he loves. 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