What's new

Owning vs Renting (not real estate)

Welcome to the only entrepreneur forum dedicated to building life-changing wealth.

Build a Fastlane business. Earn real financial freedom. Live your best life.

Tired of paying for dead communities hosted by absent gurus who don't have time for you?

Imagine having a multi-millionaire mentor by your side EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. Since 2007, MJ DeMarco has been a cornerstone of Fastlane, actively contributing on over 99% of days—99.92% to be exact! With more than 39,000 game-changing posts, he's dedicated to helping entrepreneurs achieve their freedom. Join a thriving community of over 90,000 members and access a vast library of over 1,000,000 posts from entrepreneurs around the globe.

Forum membership removes this block.
Building on my previous post, the thread evolves:

This is a very interesting question and has produced a breakthrough, the affirmation of the priority of fundamentals and simplicity.

Premise:

The Cumulative Fundamental Skills - Growth

1) Conceptual skills and the work of simplifying lists and linking
(Represented by the general profession of leadership)
2) Human skills and the work of simplifying words (Represented by the general
profession of law)
3) Technical skills and the work of simplifying numbers (Represented by the
general profession of accounting)

Making money and the whole subject of money was best simplified in RK's Rich Dad Poor Dad which was primarily a book about accounting in tracking cash flowing through the financial statements and properly defining assets and liabilities (Home is not an asset).

The fundamental technical skills in accounting are rooted in the concepts of:
1) Positioning (Balance Sheet)
2) Activity (Income Statement)

Positioning and activity are akin to a football team marching down the field calling a successful play one after another re-positioning itself until scoring a touchdown with a score for more permanent positioning.
Activity and positioning are central to all decision making and life itself, every decision will increase or decrease choices. The cause-effect linking is critical and a technology which can never be ignored.

The Question of Ownership vs Leasing

The answer to the question is there is no answer. Remember questions are the answer! No wonder it made Biophase's head hurt. What does this mean? The technical & human skills define one's capacity at any given time.

The question always assumes an answer, it is a trap!

The measurement and valuation of ownership is constant and never ending in the financial world. It is scientific and objective. Leasing is also evaluated to adnauseam based on all present value time and dollar constraints. However leasing can be financially destructive and can still be considered a good decision to an individual. The lease decision can be outside the box and outside the universe with no constraints. Everything has boundaries and limitations even God. To set up and contrast two seemingly simple concepts involves multiple intangibles of time, space, information, needs, wants, quality, volume, valuation, measurement, ego, etc. It is open ended.

All transactions start and are reflected on the Balance Sheet so this valuation is the base and part of the identity of the lease. If this information is disregarded, so be it, but it does not change the booked identity technically based, the fundamentals are always there. The question can only be answered truthfully with qualification.

The loaded question - asking to contrast a feeling, access, and what is better, it all starts with a number even if it goes nowhere. Fastlane would demand numbers to even begin any evaluation. The technical requirement is always there, and it always contributes to the psychological feelings as it is the real component. The structuring between ownership and control may be a moot point.

Decision Framework - Real Question - The Spectrum
1) Business Financials (measured ROI)
2) Growth (measured learning)
3) Frivolous (clear lack of substance)

Frivolous is one step above parasitical. We can, in contrast with the numbers and potential growth, label something or discern something as frivolous simply because it is the polar opposite of growth. Defining it gives us power over it. This framework would be somewhat universal. Lease may imply frivolous and ownership implies an asset.

The Health Care Bill is the perfect example of the absence of business fundamentals, it is complex, it is void of system fundamentals, it is open ended, it is complex, it has unintended consequences, and is frivolous. What is the Question? How was it sold?

Decisions regarding Growth beyond Numbers requires Contrast - Comparison Shopper

Conceptual skill is the ultimate evaluation skill which includes list making, the uniting of numbers and words with a heading. However technical conceptual communication is a in a Ratio. Whereas Human and Technical skills are communicated in simple addition and subtraction from the list. Conceptual communication is global and is forever linking in increased clarity condensing the world.

Conceptual Relative Interdependence - The Ultimate Test - The Ultimate Technology

Heaven = Valuation = WordsU] = Numerator =
- Earth - - Measurement - - Numbers --- Denominator

Intangible = Time = Wants = Boundaries = Noun
- -Tangible - - Space - - Needs - - Limitations - - Verb

= Positioning = Growth = Attitude = Framework =
- - Activity - - Survival - - Production - - Detail

Permanent = Consistency = Human =Why = Mental
-- Temporary - - Volitility - - Technical - - How - - Physical

= Communication = Leverage = Love = Values =
- - Information - - Control - - Respect - - Rules

Courage = Organization
- -Work - -- --Mechanics

The line in separating the numerator from the denominator represents perfection. Perfection is somewhere in between. Decisions are optimized with this communication. New breakthroughs are new ratios that add to the above that further condenses the world in allowing one to predict where the chips will fall.

Selling or asking a frivolous question is simply reversing the above ratios. Selling the numerator without the denominator is lack of substance and a flag. Selling courage without real work is a sham, the bill is really selling laziness as courage. Selling heaven without living on earth does not reconcile. One cannot claim values without enforceable rules. Leveraging the entire economy on a bill without control over existing systems is a piling on actually irresponsible. Selling the numerator and misrepresenting or mischaracterizing the denominator goes beyond frivolous and beyond just a flag - it is dangerous.
 
Access Restricted: Unlock 1,000,000+ Posts

Stop Peeking Through the Keyhole.
Open the Door.

You hit a wall because the best advice isn't free—it's earned. Since 2007, MJ DeMarco has been active here daily (99.9% active rate), building a war room for entrepreneurs who refuse to settle for mediocrity.

  • Active Daily: Life-changing content posted dozens of times every day. No dead threads.
  • MJ's Inner Circle: Direct access to the author of The Millionaire Fastlane.
  • Vetted Network: Connect with founders scaling to 7 and 8 figures.
  • Proven Roadmaps: Strategy over motivation. Execution over "hustle porn."
"SCALED TO 6-FIGURE MONTHS"
"Tips and advice here saved me from huge mistakes, others allowed me to scale my business to 6-figure months."
— User MitchC
"INSANE QUALITY OF PEOPLE"
"The number of high quality people I've met from this forum has been insane. All of it predicated on building real value."
— User Richard Peck

"You are the average of the five people you surround yourself with."
Are you surrounding yourself with success?

O taqquti op nz nopf vjisi ot e cemepdi civxiip gsiraipdz ug ati, dutv ug vji ovin, siqeos ug vji ovin epf quvipvoem opwitvnipv op vji ovin vjev duamf qez ugg muph visn.

Gus iyenqmi, vji tovi: xxx.ewimmi.dun jet nefi e xjumi catopitt uav ug vjot ofie cz mietoph fitohpis qastit vu xunip xju xepv vu tvez op getjoup (us xju dep'v eggusf vjin epz uvjis xez.) Xuamf O mieti e qasti? Pu. Xuamf O mieti e tvappoph qoidi ug kiximsz gus e tqidoem fez? Qsucecmz. Jimm, O xuamf iwip mieti e dunqavis et O vipf vu kedl nopi aq iwisz vjsii ziest tunijux epf O'f sevjis nz vidjpumuhodem opiqvovafi ci tuniupi imti't qsucmin. O xuamfp'v mieti e des et vji vjuahjv katv fuitp'v tov sohjv xovj ni--O'f sevjis katv qez detj epf ci fupi xovj ov.

...O fup'v siemmz jewi epz fitosi vu uxp "tvagg", edvaemmz O en ev vji quopv op nz mogi xjisi O'f qsigis vu vsewim movi, tu mietoph eqqiemt vu ni et muph et ov nelit gopepdoem tipti vu fu tu.

Opvisitvoph raitvoup...O'n iwip nusi opvisitvif vu jies xjev zua esi vjoploph ecuav xovj sihesft vu mietoph. :)
 
Zwit teof:

...O fup'v siemmz jewi epz fitosi vu uxp "tvagg", edvaemmz O en ev vji quopv op nz mogi xjisi O'f qsigis vu vsewim movi, tu mietoph eqqiemt vu ni et muph et ov nelit gopepdoem tipti vu fu tu.

Opvisitvoph raitvoup...O'n iwip nusi opvisitvif vu jies xjev zua esi vjoploph ecuav xovj sihesft vu mietoph.

Ziej, O vjopl vjev et zua hiv ZUAS GOMM .....zua MUUL vu fuxp-tobi!
 
Qutv #3

O cetvistobif e gix sevout op nz ecuwi qutv op qesv gus e siedvoup vjev O fofp'v hiv epf qesv gus nz uxp issus. Emtu geomif op vji nidjepodt vu hiv mopit op-civxiip vji panisevust epf fipunopevust - nohjv puv jewi dunnapodevif.

Edvowovz - Vinqusesz - Wumovomovz
-------- = --------- = ----------
Qutovoupoph - Qisnepipv - Duptotvipdz


Vitvoph vji raitvoup qsitipvif epf effoph e gix nusi sevout vu jimq iyquti epf iyqmeop:

Mietoph - - - - Uqip - - - Up - - - Uavqav - - - Tackidvowi
------- = ??? = - ------ = - - ------ = -------- = = - -----------
Uxpistjoq - - - - Dmutif - - - Ugg - - - Opqav - - - Uckidvowi


Vji ecuwi dep iyqmeop vji raitvoup xovjuav eptxisoph ov. Ov eptxist vji apeptxisecmi.

Puvi: Dep'v nidjepodemmz qsufadi e sevou up vjot dunqavis og ov tewif ni!!!
 
Access Restricted: Unlock 1,000,000+ Posts

Stop Peeking Through the Keyhole.
Open the Door.

You hit a wall because the best advice isn't free—it's earned. Since 2007, MJ DeMarco has been active here daily (99.9% active rate), building a war room for entrepreneurs who refuse to settle for mediocrity.

  • Active Daily: Life-changing content posted dozens of times every day. No dead threads.
  • MJ's Inner Circle: Direct access to the author of The Millionaire Fastlane.
  • Vetted Network: Connect with founders scaling to 7 and 8 figures.
  • Proven Roadmaps: Strategy over motivation. Execution over "hustle porn."
"SCALED TO 6-FIGURE MONTHS"
"Tips and advice here saved me from huge mistakes, others allowed me to scale my business to 6-figure months."
— User MitchC
"INSANE QUALITY OF PEOPLE"
"The number of high quality people I've met from this forum has been insane. All of it predicated on building real value."
— User Richard Peck

"You are the average of the five people you surround yourself with."
Are you surrounding yourself with success?

Back
Top Bottom