[Donna Lee Nardo]

"...when Larry Ellison (owns Oracle) wanted to buy a house in a certain neighborhood in California, he went door-to-door to all the houses surrounding the house he wanted. He offered cash to every homeowner, and succeeded in purchasing every one of them over the course of a single afternoon and evening. That way he had a buffer between his new homes and those of his (remaining) neighbors."

THAT is the way to do it if you can...

[Enchante]

I’m just surprised that he could find that many people at HOME to negotiate in one period of a few hours.... it probably was not all settled quite so fast.... nowadays with busy work life and two-career families, a lot of couples are not both at home within such reasonable hours....