Sorry. Thought you knew that whole post was a joke.

squash-who do you feel comfortable with on the reit side? my b/d has a ton, but i only feel comfortable at this point with wells and inland. have done next to nothing with either, but need to start and am just gun shy a bit.

noggin-are they meeting that 7% from revenue or spending their own cash to keep it going? i only ask because i have seen a few reits drop their higher dividend back down lately.

I used to have a partner who used some other companies that paid a higher dividend, but I weigh that against the chance of them keeping it up over time, and I would rather take the lower dividend but safer overall investment because they are not wasting the money on an expensive dividend…

I’m confused. Inland is a public REIT. How can they claim that no investor has received less than their principle back? They are off 50% from their high. Are they referring to when they were a private REIT? Maybe I’m missing something.

Inland Real Estate Corporation (NYSE: IRC) is a self-administered and self-managed publicly traded real estate investment trust that has been in existence for more than 10 years.

Got it.  Thanks TIH.

yes, all owned by the same “group.”

There are a couple more too. IRC is the only one recently that has gone public, one(Inland Retail was merged into DDR(shareholders got $14.00 buyout), another one Inland Western is closed to new investors, and a third Inland American is still adding new investors.