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Donald Trump is Almost a 99 Percenter Now That He's Sold His Rancho Palos Verdes Mansion at a Loss

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Casa Trump.
Occupiers, you have no heart.

The 1 percent are suffering through this economy too. Take Donald Trump, who just sold his house overlooking his Trump National Golf Course in Rancho Palos Verdes for a measly $7.15 million.

Hold on while we wipe the tears from our eyes and play the world's smallest violin, because ...


... Trump had hoped to get $12 million for the place, according to Curbed.

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DT.

Tragic.

The place was described as an 11,000-square-footer that the Donald built himself (using, we assume, the same material that keeps his hair up to California earthquake code).

Five bedrooms, nine bathrooms. Enough to keep at least a few occupiers clean and cozy.

We think DT should have held on to it and ridden out this real estate money-suck known as the Great Recession. At least the New Yorker would have had a pad to come to when he taps the 1 percenters here for cash for his next presidential campaign.

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Marcus Florence
Marcus Florence

 In the stock world, Buffett has been quoted as advising investors to"only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the marketshut down for 10 years."va foreclosed home

perspective2
perspective2

A more important issue to Californians is the denial of admission for qualified Californians to University of California.

University of California discriminatesagainst Californians. Chancellor Robert J Birgeneau ($500,000 salary) displacesCalifornians qualified for public university education at Cal. for a $50,600 payment and a foreignpassport. Need for transparency at UC Berkeley has never been so clear.

 

UC Berkeley, ranked # 70 Forbes, is not increasingenrollment.  Birgeneau accepts $50,600FOREIGN students at the expense of qualified instate Californians.

 

UC Regent Chairwoman Lansing and President Yudof agree to discriminateagainst Californians for foreigners. Birgeneau, Yudof, Lansing need to answer to Californians.

 

Opinions make a difference; email UC Board of Regents   marsha.kelman@ucop.edu

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