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Non-Tech : Investing in Real Estate - Creative Opportunities -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Vosilla who wrote (921)	8/22/2012 12:19:48 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2722

Yes, you’re reading this correctly. Instead of packaging up and selling the underlying mortgage as a security, which led to the 2008 economic collapse, Wall Street is packaging up the rental home itself as a publicly traded REIT ( Real Estate Investment Trust). Like a mutual fund, a REIT is a so-called “professionally managed” collective investment scheme that pools money from many investors to purchase securities. *Big Opportunity or Just Another Way to Take Your Money?* Anything WS is doing, the small investor needs to stay away.