"Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked." --Warren Buffett
Ontario real estate investors in limbo as ‘Simple Investor’ property firm suspends payments
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Tim may be the only one to get this story right.
Charlie Munger once read a single magazine article, spent ninety minutes thinking about it, and made $80 million investing in the idea.
The company looked like a disaster. It had a ton of debt after five spinoffs in six years, and its revenues shrunk because of the 2001 recession. Principal payments on its debt were coming due that the company couldn't make.
I spent weeks reconstructing what Munger actually saw, down to finding the exact article he likely read in 2001.
New series at The Owner's Memo.
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$MPCT.UN The Scarborough Junction development is being advanced with funding from the Ontario Gov't. Dream Impact Trust owns a piece of this, so what could it be worth?
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Dream Impact Trust owns 9% of Scarborough Junction $MPCT.UN
Building Ontario Fund investing $178 million
into Scarborough Junction in an equity
partnership which will build rental 1,700
units including 340 affordable units with
Republic Developments and Harlo Capital.
Scarborough Junction is a 26 acre master planned mixed use development site on the Scarborough Go Station a short 18 minute train ride to downtown Toronto







