Bill Pulte
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Get people to show up back to work.
You know, we had 16000 people.
We have 16000 people at the two companies.
When I showed up on the scene and President Trump came into office, they were all working from home.
We'd go to these big buildings, air conditioning spewing everywhere, spending $50 million a year on leases.
Nobody was in these buildings.
So we have turned around Fannie and Freddie.
They tried to get President Trump to sell the companies for the two companies together for $100 billion.
I think the valuation of the companies is anywhere between $500 billion and some say up to a trillion dollars.
We are fully prepared to do whatever the president would like us to do on that matter.
We have been getting prepared.
We are prepared just like we are with the institutional home buying ban, just like we are with home builders.
We have a full set of things to do.
And once the president decides what to do, we go about executing them.
Well, it just makes economic sense.
You talk about supply.
I mean, you kind of gave me a narrative there.
But if you look at the economic supply of things, the fact is you have, you know, big corporations buying using long term paper, using their balance sheets to scoop up homes in a supply shortage, as we call it.
And they're in some cases buying these homes for 20, 30, 40 percent.