People like the Lodge at Torrey Pines are re-selling those for almost double what they pay for them. They'll never formally say it's a private golf course, but as you raise the price to the local residents, you drive them off the golf course.
Quotes about re-selling (3 Quotes)
Edisons greatest achievement came in 1879, when he invented the electric company. Edisons design was a brilliant adaptation of the simple electrical circuit the electric company sends electricity through a wire to a customer, then immediately gets the electricity back through another wire, then (this is the brilliant part) sends it right back to the customer again. This means that an electric company can sell a customer the same batch of electricity thousands of times a day and never get caught...the last year any new electricity was generated in the United States was 1937 the electric companies have been merely re-selling it ever since, which is why they have so much free time to apply for rate increases.
The people would go out and buy stuff from other places and be re-selling it on their front yard as opposed to getting rid of all their own junk.