A body floating down the Ganges... A semi-conscious woman laying in bed nearly naked during an OPEN HOUSE... A garage with 2 coffins in it on a bed of earth... From cursed properties... to WEALTH strategies! This series of "Meditations" covers a wide range of topics all around the general subject of REAL ESTATE and the spectacular recent REAL ESTATE BUBBLE. There is probably more MUCH-NEEDED humor and adventure squeezed out of the improbable subject of the 'ups and downs' of real estate here than in a peck of humor books, yet, there are important strategies that can be used to achieve optimum success in real estate as well... as revealed by a man who started with nothing and bought and renovated S.F. Bay Area properties that are now worth many millions of dollars.