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why do proles get fixated on "flipping houses"

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Cerebral Space Party Of The First Part
  05/08/24
>$100k at once, to proles, is the mental equivalent of $1...
Contagious yellow hairy legs stag film
  05/08/24
Lmao flippers make more like $15-30k
bearded home
  05/08/24
The final check is all that matters.
Contagious yellow hairy legs stag film
  05/08/24
They make like $2/hr but then they get a big check.
Exciting aggressive tanning salon
  05/08/24
and with no concept of the risks the lucky ones do this f...
bearded home
  05/08/24
literally met for coffee with a house flipper client today. ...
Indigo deranged property patrolman
  05/08/24
did he make u buy him a dozen croissants to go?
Laughsome persian theater stage
  05/08/24
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racy twisted mental disorder
  05/08/24
I meant average ones but for everyone timing the market i...
bearded home
  05/08/24
yeah every flipper knows one guy like this which is why they...
insanely creepy big stage
  05/08/24
yeah then you press them on closing costs and taxes and inte...
jet-lagged house digit ratio
  05/08/24
they just write it off
bearded home
  05/08/24
what does that even mean?
Trip windowlicker
  05/08/24
they know what it means
bearded home
  05/08/24
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jet-lagged house digit ratio
  05/08/24
It means they commit tax fraud
insanely creepy big stage
  05/08/24
strong post moniker synergy
bearded home
  05/08/24
then flee to their home country
black meetinghouse
  05/09/24
They write it off, Jerry!
hot old irish cottage
  05/08/24
so you're doing 4-6 projects a year dealing with contractors...
Alcoholic business firm
  05/08/24
That's huge money for a prole with no education. And they're...
Razzle pit coffee pot
  05/08/24
fair point, i noticed two guys i grew up with who are the te...
Alcoholic business firm
  05/09/24
That's a lot of money and way more than I make as an attorne...
impressive metal chapel legend
  05/08/24
If you're smart you get a relators license so you collect th...
Razzle pit coffee pot
  05/08/24
titcr
black meetinghouse
  05/09/24
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insanely creepy big stage
  05/08/24
houses/property are tangible, unlike most other financial th...
aphrodisiac school
  05/08/24
correct
exhilarant lake kitchen pocket flask
  05/09/24
only access to leverage proles have. the believe themselves ...
adventurous spot voyeur
  05/08/24
Exactly cr. It's the only "asset class" that prole...
bossy gaping knife
  05/08/24
except the latter understand real estate cycles
bearded home
  05/08/24
Quote from an old thread: To get in the mind of a prole, ...
Contagious yellow hairy legs stag film
  05/08/24
the crab bucket mentality of the proles is especially apt. n...
adventurous spot voyeur
  05/08/24
I had a friend who lived in a luxury high rise he couldn't a...
Bistre chad
  05/08/24
20 years ago I knew a guy who owned 3 houses in another stat...
bearded home
  05/08/24
I escaped the pit. problem is you are always "from"...
chestnut menage
  05/08/24
But I don't have a pit like that
Glassy locale cuckold
  05/08/24
The dog turned the rat and the snake against each other and ...
burgundy razzmatazz crackhouse dragon
  05/08/24
...
Contagious yellow hairy legs stag film
  05/08/24
Marlon Brando loved cats
black meetinghouse
  05/09/24
I hate this gay and retarded kike shithole
racy twisted mental disorder
  05/08/24
xo or America?
bearded home
  05/08/24
Yeah
racy twisted mental disorder
  05/08/24
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bearded home
  05/08/24
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navy idiot
  05/08/24
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black meetinghouse
  05/09/24
A lot of privileged morons in this thread. Houses are lit...
Supple lemon filthpig
  05/08/24
just invest in low-cost index funds in your 401k, bro.
Trip windowlicker
  05/08/24
Oh wow, so if you make $50k and put away 10% of your income,...
Supple lemon filthpig
  05/08/24
It sounds like you're really not getting the miracle of comp...
navy idiot
  05/08/24
you seem about 20% of the way towards identifying the system...
bearded home
  05/08/24
The top of the flipper market clearly do very well. High end...
boyish boltzmann jap
  05/08/24
They luv the idea of making quick money.
Milky hideous immigrant base
  05/08/24
They would rather be the perpetrators of house prices than t...
Pink Address
  05/08/24
I seem to have unlocked the secret to getting engagement her...
Cerebral Space Party Of The First Part
  05/08/24
property + proles are both low hanging fruit but yes they wo...
bearded home
  05/09/24
Other forms of significant wealth creation are too abstract ...
hilarious vibrant principal's office
  05/09/24
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insanely creepy big stage
  05/09/24
we do this thread once every a year and this is always the m...
crimson really tough guy
  05/09/24
As always CR on this topic
spectacular dark factory reset button
  05/09/24
Don’t forget a major part of their familiarity is thei...
spectacular dark factory reset button
  05/09/24
This 2009 SI article is required reading on this point ht...
insanely creepy big stage
  05/09/24
the stock market is boring. real estate is more "fun&qu...
mischievous passionate mother keepsake machete
  05/09/24
also, shiplap
black meetinghouse
  05/09/24
proles love pipe dreams, only to come out on the losing end-...
Wonderful market
  05/09/24


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Date: May 8th, 2024 2:38 PM
Author: Cerebral Space Party Of The First Part



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645448)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 2:39 PM
Author: Contagious yellow hairy legs stag film

>$100k at once, to proles, is the mental equivalent of $10 million. An unfathomable amount. And it's tied to a physical thing that they can work on with their hands.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645454)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 2:39 PM
Author: bearded home

Lmao flippers make more like $15-30k

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645458)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 2:40 PM
Author: Contagious yellow hairy legs stag film

The final check is all that matters.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645460)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 2:45 PM
Author: Exciting aggressive tanning salon

They make like $2/hr but then they get a big check.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645484)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 2:47 PM
Author: bearded home

and with no concept of the risks

the lucky ones do this for 1-2 years before realizing the juice isn’t worth the squeeze before moving up the food chain

the unlucky ones end up with 3 incomplete rehabs, hard money debt, and a declining market

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645495)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 3:02 PM
Author: Indigo deranged property patrolman

literally met for coffee with a house flipper client today. He had like $50k per deal in the last few house flips he did, his partner made the same.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645552)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 3:02 PM
Author: Laughsome persian theater stage

did he make u buy him a dozen croissants to go?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645556)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 3:53 PM
Author: racy twisted mental disorder



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645726)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 3:03 PM
Author: bearded home

I meant average ones

but for everyone timing the market is critical (and impossible over a long enough timeline) as you can’t make money in all phases. risks abound

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645557)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 3:51 PM
Author: insanely creepy big stage

yeah every flipper knows one guy like this which is why they continue

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645716)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 3:58 PM
Author: jet-lagged house digit ratio

yeah then you press them on closing costs and taxes and interest and shit. they have no idea what you are talking about

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645747)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 3:59 PM
Author: bearded home

they just write it off

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645748)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 4:03 PM
Author: Trip windowlicker

what does that even mean?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645760)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 4:06 PM
Author: bearded home

they know what it means

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645768)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 4:08 PM
Author: jet-lagged house digit ratio



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645773)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 4:09 PM
Author: insanely creepy big stage

It means they commit tax fraud

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645775)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 7:18 PM
Author: bearded home

strong post moniker synergy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47646321)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 8:47 AM
Author: black meetinghouse

then flee to their home country

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47647316)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 9:22 PM
Author: hot old irish cottage

They write it off, Jerry!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47646609)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 7:55 PM
Author: Alcoholic business firm

so you're doing 4-6 projects a year dealing with contractors, weather, unknown 'issues' you discover after you buy someone's problem, just to make ~200/250k +/- w/o any benefits? seems like a ton of grind.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47646374)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 8:05 PM
Author: Razzle pit coffee pot

That's huge money for a prole with no education. And they're not paying off student debt, either. If they save up, they can start buying cash and get better deals. In a good real estate market it's an awesome deal.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47646391)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 10:04 AM
Author: Alcoholic business firm

fair point, i noticed two guys i grew up with who are the textbook definition of high functioning scumbags do precisely what you're talking about.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47647501)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 8:13 PM
Author: impressive metal chapel legend

That's a lot of money and way more than I make as an attorney at law. No brainier.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47646414)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 8:04 PM
Author: Razzle pit coffee pot

If you're smart you get a relators license so you collect the sellers fee each time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47646385)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 8:47 AM
Author: black meetinghouse

titcr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47647317)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 3:02 PM
Author: insanely creepy big stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645553)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 2:39 PM
Author: aphrodisiac school

houses/property are tangible, unlike most other financial things. proles don't deal in abstractions

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645456)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 8:26 AM
Author: exhilarant lake kitchen pocket flask

correct

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47647275)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 2:39 PM
Author: adventurous spot voyeur

only access to leverage proles have. the believe themselves capable of DIY tasks. proles women *LIVE* to do home design and shit. HGTV propaganda. a friend of a friend made millions doing it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645457)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 2:43 PM
Author: bossy gaping knife

Exactly cr. It's the only "asset class" that proles can (mostly) understand

They're drawn to it like Jews to a quarter on the pavement

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645470)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 2:43 PM
Author: bearded home

except the latter understand real estate cycles

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645475)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 2:43 PM
Author: Contagious yellow hairy legs stag film

Quote from an old thread:

To get in the mind of a prole, you have to use imagery.

Imagine a pit that is so deep and so wide that no person would ever be able to reach the bottom, or navigate from side to side. The pit is filled, from depths below which anyone has ever comprehended, with dead and rotten bodies of proles from the past. Stacked on top of each other in the pit for miles and miles. Traveling up the pit, toward exposed sunlight, you eventually get to live people. The first few miles of live people are simply waiting to die from being suffocated or crushed. These are the proles of third world countries. It is a matter of days for this group.

Above them, standing on the shoulders of those waiting to die are still more that are at least trying to claw there way through the mass of humans stacked on top of one another. But the flesh is so dense, the result is people just pulling each other apart, one fingernail full of flesh at a time. This group represents the proles of poor America. Anyone lucky enough to navigate through this chaos is so hardened by the experience that they rarely ascend further as their thirst for revenge keeps them turning back down to kill those below them with their bare hands.

The group above, still smushed together, can see success above them. The pressure is still great on them but they can make out people living nice lives above them. Conceptually, they do not understand why these people have better stations in life, but one concept they do understand is people paying one another for a safe place to live. Some from this group escape the pit.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645474)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 2:54 PM
Author: adventurous spot voyeur

the crab bucket mentality of the proles is especially apt. no one hates proles more than ascended proles.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645524)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 3:06 PM
Author: Bistre chad

I had a friend who lived in a luxury high rise he couldn't afford and was always broke. He was always borrowing money and could never go out or do anything. I said all your money is tied up in rent. Why don't you just move somewhere shittier and you wouldn't be so hosed. He goes, "If I lived somewhere else, it wouldn't be luxury."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645569)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 3:11 PM
Author: bearded home

20 years ago I knew a guy who owned 3 houses in another state, owned a plane, a boat, and drove a sequoia. he rented a condo in the most expensive complex in town, and he made $52k the year before. had $1mm in debt

yes he was a shortmo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645579)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 3:13 PM
Author: chestnut menage

I escaped the pit. problem is you are always "from" the prole pit. so family, friends, experiences, etc are tied to the pit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645590)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 3:39 PM
Author: Glassy locale cuckold

But I don't have a pit like that

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645679)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 7:43 PM
Author: burgundy razzmatazz crackhouse dragon

The dog turned the rat and the snake against each other and made it out. The cat tricked the devil and never went in.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47646353)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 8:01 PM
Author: Contagious yellow hairy legs stag film



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47646381)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 8:50 AM
Author: black meetinghouse

Marlon Brando loved cats

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47647324)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 2:44 PM
Author: racy twisted mental disorder

I hate this gay and retarded kike shithole

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645477)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 2:45 PM
Author: bearded home

xo or America?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645486)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 2:46 PM
Author: racy twisted mental disorder

Yeah

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645490)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 2:48 PM
Author: bearded home



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47645496)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 7:59 PM
Author: navy idiot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47646377)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 8:50 AM
Author: black meetinghouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47647325)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 7:15 PM
Author: Supple lemon filthpig

A lot of privileged morons in this thread.

Houses are literally the only thing a normal person is going to get a $500,000 loan to buy.

What other business do you want them to enter into? You think they were deciding between either flipping houses or starting their own Venture Capital fund?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47646318)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 7:18 PM
Author: Trip windowlicker

just invest in low-cost index funds in your 401k, bro.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47646322)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 7:26 PM
Author: Supple lemon filthpig

Oh wow, so if you make $50k and put away 10% of your income, after 10 years you'll have....$71,000!

No idea why proles find making $50,000 in a few weeks more alluring...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47646332)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 9:17 PM
Author: navy idiot

It sounds like you're really not getting the miracle of compound interest

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47646599)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 7:19 PM
Author: bearded home

you seem about 20% of the way towards identifying the systemic fraud at play

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47646324)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 7:53 PM
Author: boyish boltzmann jap

The top of the flipper market clearly do very well. High end flips seem to command a premium.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47646369)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 7:57 PM
Author: Milky hideous immigrant base

They luv the idea of making quick money.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47646375)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 9:26 PM
Author: Pink Address

They would rather be the perpetrators of house prices than the victims.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47646620)



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Date: May 8th, 2024 10:05 PM
Author: Cerebral Space Party Of The First Part

I seem to have unlocked the secret to getting engagement here after nearly nine years

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47646739)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 8:44 AM
Author: bearded home

property + proles are both low hanging fruit but yes they work

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47647311)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 12:45 AM
Author: hilarious vibrant principal's office

Other forms of significant wealth creation are too abstract for them to comprehend. A house is something relatable and tangible.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47647046)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 5:17 AM
Author: insanely creepy big stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47647149)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 6:09 AM
Author: crimson really tough guy

we do this thread once every a year and this is always the most ojn point response

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47647154)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 8:17 AM
Author: spectacular dark factory reset button

As always CR on this topic

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47647264)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 8:20 AM
Author: spectacular dark factory reset button

Don’t forget a major part of their familiarity is their shit jobs. These dudes have seen enough to understand it physically start to finish.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47647267)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 9:11 AM
Author: insanely creepy big stage

This 2009 SI article is required reading on this point

https://vault.si.com/vault/2009/03/23/how-and-why-athletes-go-broke

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47647354)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 8:29 AM
Author: mischievous passionate mother keepsake machete

the stock market is boring. real estate is more "fun".

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47647282)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 8:52 AM
Author: black meetinghouse

also, shiplap

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47647330)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 9:20 AM
Author: Wonderful market

proles love pipe dreams, only to come out on the losing end-- time after time

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526488&forum_id=2#47647365)