Replies to post #2069 on Investing in Timber

[belmontx]

So the moral to your story is to avoid any and all investor disclosure about TATF, except positive stuff, regardless of how suspicious and irresponsible and possibly fraudulent that company's behavior. You made way too big a reach in your arguments in your latest post.

Nothing would make Mr. Brunner happier.

Contrasted to almost all the other members of this forum,
if you are not related to the man, or one of his best friends, you and ab are most likely his favorite persons on this forum.

belmontx

[mattyo5]

David, I do believe these negative posts probably do do considerable harm to TATF... however... there is a reason the posts exist and its quite simple for TATF to make them go away. As investors in a very long term investment, we need regular viable reassurance that we will get our money OUT of the investment at the other end, and therefore we need concrete evidence that SOMETHING is happening down there on the farms, other than the lack of care that I saw... between the "whats new" page having NOTHING really truly new (its May, the new equipment supposedly showed up in March and we still don't have pictures) ... most of the stuff on the whats new page is sales pitch, or up to 2 years old! I imagine there is really a lot going on down there, but because I don't see any real evidence of it, investors are going to be panicky. this is EASILY preventable, but Steve has not bothered to do it, and frankly, thats carelessness on his part. I believe it would be easy to silence the negativity on this board if regular verifiable reports of anything showed up on the web... but no dice. This is the minimum Steve should be doing for investors. In reality, though words are spoken here on this forum, Steve has forced it. oh well...

-Mattyo