You will get your choice. You can take stock, cash, or a combination. If you take the stock/cash option, you will get stock which you can immediately sell.

BNI had a dividend yield of 1.6%. I am getting 8 - 14% yield on oil royalty trusts.

This is not rocket science.

You are in control. You can convert all your paper into cash -- in fact, BRK just reported 3Q earnings tripled -- and this was during the worse recession in history, save the depression.

What more do you want?