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Message:: [QUOTE="MK Ultra, post: 22364287, member: 108322"]Echoing what Randy Abercrombie stated regarding interest rates being so low the amount due to you is negligible.  I=PRT I=5,000*(.0420/12)*3  would be the interest accrued at an annual rate of 4.20% for 3 months.  Or about $52.50, so what, $10 per thousand due to you? I have no idea their scale or sell through, but theoretically, it could be a couple thousand dollars a month?  Nothing to sneeze at. The bigger issue, which is probably just paranoia and has no basis in reality, is Bernie Madoff may be running things.  Look at the South Korean jeonse market.  Basically a renter pays 50% to 80% of the value of a residence in cash to the landlord up front.  In return they get to live rent free for 1 or 2 years, pay utilities, and have to keep up the place.  The owner gets capital appreciation and interest income.  Until Government controls, it worked out okay for all parites.  What's happening is that the pool of jeonse applicants is shrinking and owners were not good stewards of the capital entrusted to them, and it's causing all sorts of problems.  Renters are losing their life savings.  But that's probably not the issue at all here.[/QUOTE]