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  1. WJK

    Stock Market Discussion, Chat About the Latest Market Action

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    I'm retired from my (brokerage, appraisal and expert consulting) RE career, and I'm now a professional investor. So I'm still playing the RE game after about 50 years in the business. I do my own property management and bird dogging. I'm not trying to go wide -- I'm going deep. In other words, I...
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    I don't know why -- but my stocks are quickly trending up again after a pretty severe dip. There is no good news to create that increase. And there wasn't a good reason for the decline. It's all investors' up and down emotions. I know that the worldwide money supply over the last couple of years...
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    Has Moving to a Warm and Sunny Climate Made You Happier?

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    I just reread my post. I sound like I don't understand the struggle. I believe it's a personal choice. Yes, living in Alaska, I really struggled with the weather when I first moved here. I had lived in California for the prior 30 years. Now the winter months are just part of the normal cycle. I...
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    Has Moving to a Warm and Sunny Climate Made You Happier?

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    It's all in how you see it. You can adjust your glasses and change your lens, which changes your point of view. You can rewrite your story that you are telling yourself. The weather is NOT in your control. It is immutable. You have two feet. You can move somewhere else if you really hate it...
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    Uh? What were you doing? Why did you quit?
  6. WJK

    Stock Market Discussion, Chat About the Latest Market Action

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    RE in several segments is stagnant for the moment. We're hitting a lot of price resistance related to market values and interest rates. If you want good RE stocks, look for solid income streams with a good management team that has a long track record. I would check out their vacancy and turnover...
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    My little brother and I collected pop bottles and cans to turn in that had deposits on them for our spending money. It gave us a hand-full of pennies. Everyone had just one family vehicle, and we never ate out. It was too expensive. Around 11 years old, I became the go-to kid in my area. I made...
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    Stock Market Discussion, Chat About the Latest Market Action

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    Why all the negativity? We've had a lot of ups and downs in our history that have done a lot more damage. The stock market went down more than 80% in the 1929 crash and didn't recover to that level again until the early 1950s. That's around 30 years of recovery time and a lot of bank failures...
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    Stock Market Discussion, Chat About the Latest Market Action

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    That's part of it... But only some of the whole.
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    Stock Market Discussion, Chat About the Latest Market Action

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    Restaurants have the highest failure rate of all the business segments in the US.
  11. WJK

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    You're right. Boys will be boys...
  12. WJK

    Weekly Progress: What will you get done this week?

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    Our Progress: Our new project: Last week we worked on putting a moisture barrier under the floor joist in Section #1. That’s sound very technical. Actually, we used old tarps and stapled them to the bottoms of the floor joists. When we run out of old tarps, we have rolls of plastic to use. This...
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    Stock Market Discussion, Chat About the Latest Market Action

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    The big kids play in that pool. I'll stick with the less-loved stocks that are too small for them to be interested in.
  14. WJK

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    How about some stocks? It seems like a good time to buy.
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    Sad: The Human Superpower You're Likely Ignoring...

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    Lady Luck loves people who have grit and are relentless in their efforts. She hates slobs -- especially lazy ones. And she loves to play tricks on those who think they are so special that they can evade the hard work. Isn't it funny that these special people always get the situation where the...
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    Sad: The Human Superpower You're Likely Ignoring...

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    I don't think the LOA "leap-frogs" over the process. I find that working within the process attracts Lady Luck (AKA LOA) like bees to flowers.
  17. WJK

    Stock Market Discussion, Chat About the Latest Market Action

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    I'm getting really interested in some Penny Stocks. Unlike my RE, I cannot control the stock market. So I'm going wide rather than deep -- a portfolio of many smaller positions. With attention, I can always go deeper by buying more shares as their situation change. I'm looking for the small...
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    Sad: The Human Superpower You're Likely Ignoring...

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    Like I've said before, the only equality that humans have is that we each have 24 hours in each day. The quality of our lives is based on how we use that time. I agree. The power is in the process. Here's another truism in this mix. The event, the purchases, crossing "it" off of your to-do...
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    Stock Market Discussion, Chat About the Latest Market Action

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    It sounds like a good time to buy and hold. This too shall pass...
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    Weekly Progress: What will you get done this week?

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    I don't have 90 minutes to pay full attention to much of anything. I listen to books all day -- BUT, I'm busy working on stuff while they play. I listen for the "golden nuggets" in those books, and then I pay attention to that section. If a book goes on too long without me finding those...
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