http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Suspect-in-triple-slaying-owned-19-properties-3185000.php
Records show that Wu and his wife, Jie Zheng Wu, went on a property-buying spree starting in 2004.
From June to October 2005, they bought two rental homes and five vacant lots for $526,000 in Hot Springs Village, a retirement community of nearly 15,000 people and nine golf courses. They took out at least $330,000 in bank loans to pay for the properties, records show.
The couple also bought at least five homes and six lots in Washington north of Portland, in the communities of Anderson Island, Vancouver and Ocean Shores. In California, they bought a modest home in Elk Grove (Sacramento County) and a bare lot near Lake Shastina in Siskiyou County.
There are few signs of financial strain in the records, and the couple paid property taxes on two Washington lots as recently as Nov. 7. The cost was $241.
Wu and his wife also sold a lot in Hot Springs Village in May of this year for $41,000 and a home in Washington for $225,000 last month.
The couple also own the home in Mountain View where they were living.
Dwight Turner, who with his wife owns the rental company, said property values have held firm in Hot Springs Village despite the national downturn. He said Wu, like a number of other out-of-state investors, had probably fared well.
