News and Press Releases:

• "Entrepreneur Liu Sees A Derivative Solution for Homeowners", Dow Jones Newswires, September 4th, 2007
  
  
• "Product Proposed to Hedge Against Home Prices", Inside Mortgage Finance's Inside B&C Lending, August 24th, 2007
  
  
• "SwapRent (SM) Plan Matches Struggling Borrowers with Investors", MortgageDaily.com, July 10th, 2007
  
  
• "Entrepreneur Sees A Futures Market for Homeowners", Los Angeles Times, April 20th, 2003
  
  
• "Preserving Your Home's Value", Business 2.0, February 2003
  
  
• "First Online Exchange for Real Estate Futures", FOW Week, September 2002

Public Blog Sites on SwapRent^SM

• "Ralph Liu's Clever Idea: SwapRent", Business Week Hot Property Blog, Posted by Peter Coy on October 11th, 2007
  
  
• "SwapRent: Is This A Viable Program for Homeowners and Investment Institutions?", Allbusiness.com Real Estate Blog, Posted by Tyler McKenzie on October 10th, 2007
  
  
• The SwapRent (SM) Blog - The Official Blog Site of the New "Economic Renting" Concept through SwapRent (SM) Transactions, March 29th, 2008
  
  
• "Own-to-Rent with a Twist", Economics of Contempt, May 30th, 2008
  
  
• "Real Estate Derivative Markets: Why We Need Them", Economics of Contempt, June 3rd, 2008

Academic Papers That Referenced SwapRent^SM

• "Consumer and Mortgage Credit at a Crossroads: Preserving Expanded Access While Informing Choices and Protecting Consumers", Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, Eric S. Belsky and Ren S. Essene, Last Revised on February 26, 2008, UCC08-1
  
  
• "Identifying, Managing and Mitigating Risks to Borrowers in Changing Mortgage and Consumer Credit Markets", Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, Eric S. Belsky, Karl E. Case and Susan J. Smith, February, 2008, UCC08-14
  
  
• "Housing Risk", Susan J. Smith, Professor of Geography and a Director of the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University, Durham, England, the United Kingdom, April, 2008 (susanj.smith@durham.ac.uk ). This paper appears in Amin, A., O’Neill, M., Daya and Brown (eds) (2009) Thinking about almost everything (Profile Books)