How Do YOU Invest Your IM Income?

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G'dAy Cakes You Bitch..

Shall See you at Adtech Next year and we can debate my spelling over a pint or three..
 
Nobody has mentioned investing in education. I don't mean the kind of of education you get when you want to buy something - I mean the college degree kind. From what I heard, the value of a degree has been decreasing, relative to the large student loans you get stuck with and the high unemployment rate of college grads. I wouldn't seek out a degree, but I think that investing in advanced marketing, web design and coding education is worthwhile for those in this business.

Really rich people buy into hedge funds, and the stupid among them sank it all into Bernie Madoff's pocket. We know what happened next.

As for me, my first payouts will be going toward fixing up the house I live in. This is a property that was purchased for $25,500 by my parents, and is now worth $350,000 to $400,000. I think after that I will invest my money in a time machine to return to 1968 and buy a few more houses.
 
Invest in whatever YOU can see a ROI. Different people see it in different things. If you can see it in property, put it there. If you can see it in stocks, put it there. If you can't see it, shit.. invest in cash. Just have to realize that even cash goes backwards, if you are not keeping pace with inflation.
 
Businesses are a good idea, except serviced based as discussed and manufacturing was good one time but if I bought a manufacturing business now, I couldn't sleep at night thinking about China. I think import/export would be good or a manufacturing business that holds IP at home but builds shit offshore.

With all the stories coming out about Chinese goods causing harm or killing people, I'm not very worried about owning manufacturing businesses based in the U.S. I also attach no morality to owning companies that house their manufacturing facilities offshore, or are altogether foreign. I might even go so far as to call that spreading my risk, because I'm not placing all my assets in the hands of one government or economy.
 
Works for me. Keep it north of 8 mile though - nobody actually wants to live inside of Detroit. You can get decent properties in Roseville, Eastpointe, Warren etc for $20k and rent them out for $900/month all day long. That's a sick ROI, plus you can leverage the equity in the house for a fat loan if you need one. The banks will go off of assessed value if you have good credit.

There's places like that in Baltimore City too. I think this model is flawed though, because maintenance, tenant turn around, evictions all took a lot of time away from more profitable activities. And I used a property manager too.

I think the best real estate investments right now are commercial rentals to places like Walgreens and Rite-Aid (although I haven't really looked at those numbers), and self storage complexes (which is what I'm leaning towards).
 
Anyone have any good sites or reading material for getting into the rental property investment game? Something I've been wanting to do...
 
Fuck rental properties, man. I really hope that it works out for you guys that are into it but I could never put up with the headaches of repair, maintenance, deadbeat renters, etc. Even with a property manager, it would still be a major PITA.

Of course, I can't stand dealing with the general public to begin with. :)

I'm inclined to lean with Vinny Lingo with pretty much everything he's said about buying businesses.

(And no, Andrew Scherer, you fucking punk ass douchebag, I'm not talking about fucking franchises)
 
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