Re: business 101 lesson for our dear friend, dq...gather 'round.

Don't forget charging yourself to landscape the property and then writing it off as an expense.

Buying and reselling existing housing is not exactly producing anything, but I concede your points.  However, I hope you are a bit more diligent in the  "qualifying people for a loan" bit, since I have a distinct feeling that a lot of those loans you qualified people for in the past are in derivative packages that went down the tube and started this mess.

Ouch!