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I did some snooping on Coffeebean/Starbucks...

Coffee powder you can buy off the shelf are not 100% coffee actually. Ever wonder why the powder is black when the beans are green and the roasted beans are brown? Its 1 part Coffee beans and 3 parts sugar. Visit any coffee powder factory and you'll see that the floor is black all the time due to excessive sugar usage.

As for Coffeebean/Starbucks, they use 100% pure coffeebeans and grind them into powder on the spot. I worked out the cost of making a cup yourself, its about $2-3 including rental/staff costs.

So yes, you still lose $2-3 compared to making it yourself. But do you really want to spend a coupld hundred bucks on the machine?

On the same page iteself.....

"Investment Manager

Walton Asset Management is part of the Walton International Group, which has been helping people to achieve their financial goals for over 20 years. Their innovative approach to wealth creation has attracted investors from all over the world at all economic levels. The Group currently has over $350,000,000 of assets under management, Walton Asset Management was formed to develop innovative investment products and services to compliment the mainstream of the Group's business. The fund offers the investor a higher than bank rate regular income on their capital along with complete security on their initial investment and capital appreciation upon sale at the development phase of the underlying assets.

 Walton Asset Management will establish independent valuations of all assets, which will be held in security within a custodial facility on behalf of investors. The management of the land and mortgage assets will be delegated to the Investment Advisers: Walton International Group and Westmount Mortgage Corporation.

Investment Advisers

Walton International Group are headquartered in Calgary, Canada and with North American offices in Edmonton, Vancouver and Saskatoon. International offices are based in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore with further expansion planned. Walton is currently the largest controller of land within the city limits of Calgary, and also controls a significant amount of land within the city limits of Edmonton. By understanding these cities and their growth patterns, they are able to offer low risk, high return investment opportunities to their clients. Acquisitions are guided by a single philosophy: to buy land that will be attractive to developers. The quality and execution of this process is the cornerstone of providing substantial investment returns to their world-wide clients. Walton International Group follows four crucial stages of development to maximize investor returns: acquisition, syndication, development of the concept plan, and initialization of the development phase.

Westmount Mortagage Corporation founded in 1973, provides financing for the Groups clients of up to 75% of the property value and is a sister company of Walton International Group. By utilizing this mortgage facility, Walton is able to provide a fixed income to mortgage investors."

Aiyo. Perhaps you have not drop by this page yet,
http://www.si-ltd.com/ser_products.asp

Take a look at the "Geared Funds" from Dominion PCC, click on the "Geared Funds". In that page, you will see full write up on Dominion PCC.


The description in that page essentially covers the product background and detail. As the land fund is based on Walton's land, thus the product background and details are Walton.

Noticed in the Product page, that Walton land fund is only 1 of their product, out of 22 others.

Take a look and correct me if I'm wrong.

Care to elaborate?

Hi everyone.

I really enjoyed reading the posts in this forum. I see many skeptics about this Land Banking and quite frankly I will have to say that I was one of them as well so I can fully understand where those guys come from.

Still, I was very interested to make money but I always managed to save some money but not enough to buy big properties and make investments from the unit rentals, so I started looking in buying the land and companies who do it.

I also wanted to buypass big companies like Walton and get my own piece of land but realising that I need to come up with a couple of millions to start and then develop the land if just out of my league, so I reseached the variety of options.

With Waltons, the investment starts at 80 K. This also was high for me to start so I invested with a smaller company, getting my feet wet only at $12500, the amount I was willing to lose if something goes wrong.

I was told that it will take aproximatelly 5 years to increase the value of the money with profits and then the sale proposal will be discussed with all the owners. I also have a land title so this made me at peace about my ownerhip. My land value doubled in one year, and two and a half years later, the company put forth a proposal to sell the land to a builder for three times the money. I received the cheque and invested a part of my profits to fly to Alberta to check the company and their new ventures.

I was really impressed as there were other 1000 acres to choose from.

If you guys have doubt about Land Banking, please contact me. I also joined as a consultant as I proved to myself that investing in land was way more profitable then investing in real estate.

Think about it - you can do nothing or you can became a land owner and have sizeable profits in your pocket 3-5 years down the road. And keep in mind - they do not make land any more. It is wise investment.

Bruce
safesurfing@hotmail.com

Here we go again...


Land investment with W, B and PP starts below S$15K-S$20K. Perhaps you were introduced to an expensive project.


Increased in value starts much earlier than that, one can conduct a land valuation to determine the value of the pre-exit land. If it were to only start 5 yrs onwards, I would've likely avoided land banking in the first place.


Name of projects that adds up to 1000 acres?


Best wishes to your career in land banking. In general, I think this form of asset is to date among the best yield investment around - provided that the company itself is not a fly by night.

Dear Carrotcake

Don't jump the gun, I was talking about ICE BLEND. Not black coffee.

Congratulation to you, Kevin,

My project EE will only exit on 2010. Cannot wait for it to be my turn. 

IMO, I have no doubt abt Walton ability to generate profit, but transparency will be a plus.