(Besides, the American Psychiatric Association no longer regards homosexuality as a Mental Aberration–as opposed to the Christian Psychiatric Association.)

I am selling seventeen of my twenty five properties; I expect to realize about a million dollars from the sale. We have had negotiations with three serious buyers, and I expect to have a final offer near our asking price within the hour — I just got off the phone with the buyer when I saw the article. We’re asking for a 9% cap rate on the property, and that’s fair.

Part of this is that the rental business has never been the particularly profitable part of what I do; I enjoy construction more and construction has been about three quarters of my income for the past four years. As a result, I want less capital tied up in rentals and more capital tied up in construction.

The Negro homosexual Brentin Mock has been engaged in bizarre and wildly inaccurate writing about me for several months, and I can only comment that his behavior shows the kind of mental illness that runs parallel with homosexuality. Mr Mock writes, like most communists, what he wishes was true, not was is true.

There are some other factors at play as well: I have an opportunity to go into commercial property with a business partner; I have been offered an opportunity to develop a subdivision near Roanoke; I have been offered an opportunity to buy out a company engaged in historical remodeling in Roanoke in a better area than the West End. All of these are things I would prefer to be doing, and this sale represents me moving up the real estate ladder into bigger and better things.

The suggestion that there is any real “legal trouble” occurring in the bogus, harassing, and repetive cases Troutman Sanders keeps filing in the US Western District courts is completely false. Troutman Sanders filed a large number of subpoenas, every single one of which was ruled to be unlawful in some form — several of which because they requested information protected by statute, and several others because they were on their face overly broad and the attorney refused to modify them. As a result, many of the subpoenas were thrown out by the court, and the balance were modified by protective order.

We informed Troutman Sanders that we intended to sue them for filing unlawful subpoenas, and they responded by filing a contempt motion. After filing the contempt motion, they then offered to “settle” the contempt motion if I would sign a waiver giving away my right to sue them for the subpoenas. I have refused, and they have responded by filing a series of bogus contempt motions, all of which the judge involved has declined to grant. There is a possibilty a judge will impose a gag order under the All Writs Act, but the judge has also pointedly refused to do that on two occassions, and does not appear likely to do it any time soon.