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In 2007 we bought a 4-plex as a rental to diversify our investments and begin to generate a long-term rental return. It was an older place but on the edge of gentrification in Paradise Valley, the richest city boundary in the Phoenix area, so it had great appreciation upside. It became a total disaster. The housing market crashed, making it worth a fraction of our mortgage on it. Because of the glut of housing we never had it fully rented. It had a lot more problems than the inspectors found. Our management company sucked. It was 30-40 minutes from our residence so going there for anything took up 1/2 day minimum. As a bonus, I lost my job in 2009 after a major reorg. In the end we short sold it for pennies on the dollar. I say this because I sense above, and I've been there on many investments including my story here: a feeling of "well, at a MINIMUM the value will go up X, and I'll just hire a company to manage things and everything will be great from far away..." it doesn't always work out that way. I'd maybe, maybe consider keeping my current house and renting it out if I had to move. But I'll never again buy a place, especially a multi-unit place, with the idea of an easy life of rent profits. Instead I invest in real estate through REITs that focus on growth areas like data centers.

Regarding the coverage we've seen of the atrocities committed in Israel on the day, you believe that they were exaggerated. That's a rough position to take. It occurs to me that in a different time and place, you would be Alex Jones which would explain why you're reaping Alex Jones type blowback. -- I don't know about Reuters, my understanding is that a lot of these guys are independent contractors. It's not my scandal though. If a news agency has a presence in Gaza, I know and accept that the journalists they hire are either pro-Hamas or have to pretend to be in order to maintain a pulse. You either hire them anyway because it's newsworthy place and you want feet on the ground there, or you do without a presence in Gaza. Are they doing a bad job, no, they're doing the job we expect, which is Palestinian sympathetic and Hamas sympathetic. I also understand full well why partisan pro-Hamas journalists wouldn't tip off Israel of an impending attack. Getting back to the different time and place theme, were I a journalist with a scoop about the D-Day invasion, I wouldn't have reported it to my bosses either until after it starts.

Been thinking on selling the house with this PCS move to Japan. We should get something like $300 from the home sale if it all goes smoothly. What if instead of buying another house when we get back . We just invest the whole thing immediately? I mean... we put it in our Vanguard brokerage account? Vanguard 500 ETF (VOO), which is Vanguards SP500 mirror has averaged 12.92% each year since inception 13 years ago. If we do that... $300 in 10 years @ 7% is $590K 10% is $778K 13% is $1,018K When we get back we just rent or I get a VA loan for another house down the road with 0% down. When will we ever have $300k free and clear? Never... Also thought about maybe when we come back (3 years minimum, 5 max) we can use that $300k to down pay several rentals? My pops has rentals... and a couple AirBnB's he's been renting to companies for $2500 a month. So I could learn from him. After thinking about it for awhile, I feel like putting that $300 down on another house would just be a wasted opportunity.

Ghay bodybuilding? You mean boyo likes to see men oil up and put on speedos and strike poses? SAD!!! Lol.

That was just a field trip and photo shoot, so it still doesn't apply.

Now do January 6.

If the U.S, invaded Mexico they would need to have a plan to protect themselves from the rear as 28 million illeqals in lowriders wielding leaf blowers would ride up on them.

But they had a bullhorn and a prepared rhyme so it must have been a protest.

Geek club time share. Imagine the threads.

Congrats. I can't get a streak that high, I always forget a day here or there and start over.

Hold on, hold on. It's taking me a moment to grasp that leftoid protestors have actually found a legitimate vulture capitalist target to vent their frustrations on. This isn't a hapless Kenosha car dealership, these are the left's very own evil Davos-tied leftoid masters of the universes they are confronting. If any place on this planet deserves a visit by firey but mostly peaceful protesters, Black Rock corporate HQs would be near the top of the list.

Current mortgage is $2300. Say we could rent it for $3500. $3500 - 2300 = $1200 - 8% management fee = $1,104 x 12 months = $13,248 a year (not counting any maintenance ie appliances/furnace going out) or paying taxes on that $13K as well. For that little... $300k × 4.3% savings account interest = $12,900/yr not even compounded. With zero risk.

I'll tell you what I'd do...

Is there anything more enjoyable that watching Trump dominate the micro brains of our Libby friends? Priceless, and going on a decade!

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Yeah I get you. Though I like the idea of a set it and forget it. "You may not be able to predict the performance of the S&P 500 Index for the next 20 years, but you are not alone. In one of his annual letters to shareholders, Warren Buffett included an excerpt from his will that ordered his children’s inheritance to be placed in an S&P 500 Index fund because the “long-term results from this policy will be superior to those attained by most investors—whether pension funds, institutions, or individuals who employ high-fee managers.” Unpack that a little. Here's a guy who makes his money being the last thing on that list right? Essentially saying, we high-fee managers can't beat the index.

Rusty thinks we have never intervened against the drug trade in other countries with force. It was ok when his guys were doing it but if Trump even offered to help it’s war mongering.

Penn State +4.5. Mid-November and this will be Michigan's first game against a ranked opponent and it is on the road in a tough environment.

You know how this board works. You get trolls like tardcore that come in and make statements like "Gutterboy thinks Hamas is awesome" and then it goes off on a slap fight, or ksb posting his social media feed and accusing us of supporting what he sees which then ends in him accusing us of having child porn when proven wrong. First day here?

Liberal Art Degrees, no jobs and mass debt. What's not to like?

Gutterboy and Real Tim have the same political views as kids in college.

I'm not going to recap every point made in a 92 page thread for you, but we're all not very far apart here. Points we agree on: - Hamas is a terrorist org - The Hamas attack was barbaric and deserves a response by Israel. Everything else gets muddy, like if kids living in Gaza deserve to die, if we should start WW3 over this, etc.