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why do proles get fixated on "flipping houses"

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curious blathering filthpig
  05/08/24
>$100k at once, to proles, is the mental equivalent of $1...
Submissive Carnelian Coldplay Fan
  05/08/24
Lmao flippers make more like $15-30k
motley house wrinkle
  05/08/24
The final check is all that matters.
Submissive Carnelian Coldplay Fan
  05/08/24
They make like $2/hr but then they get a big check.
flushed lay idiot
  05/08/24
and with no concept of the risks the lucky ones do this f...
motley house wrinkle
  05/08/24
literally met for coffee with a house flipper client today. ...
ivory meetinghouse
  05/08/24
did he make u buy him a dozen croissants to go?
Poppy erotic heaven boltzmann
  05/08/24
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Floppy painfully honest locale faggot firefighter
  05/08/24
I meant average ones but for everyone timing the market i...
motley house wrinkle
  05/08/24
yeah every flipper knows one guy like this which is why they...
Umber hominid location
  05/08/24
yeah then you press them on closing costs and taxes and inte...
slimy abnormal codepig
  05/08/24
they just write it off
motley house wrinkle
  05/08/24
what does that even mean?
free-loading judgmental dilemma generalized bond
  05/08/24
they know what it means
motley house wrinkle
  05/08/24
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slimy abnormal codepig
  05/08/24
It means they commit tax fraud
Umber hominid location
  05/08/24
strong post moniker synergy
motley house wrinkle
  05/08/24
then flee to their home country
exciting coral pit
  05/09/24
They write it off, Jerry!
Arousing ungodly circlehead fortuitous meteor
  05/08/24
so you're doing 4-6 projects a year dealing with contractors...
Passionate den
  05/08/24
That's huge money for a prole with no education. And they're...
Mildly autistic mad cow disease church
  05/08/24
fair point, i noticed two guys i grew up with who are the te...
Passionate den
  05/09/24
That's a lot of money and way more than I make as an attorne...
fishy orchestra pit
  05/08/24
If you're smart you get a relators license so you collect th...
Mildly autistic mad cow disease church
  05/08/24
titcr
exciting coral pit
  05/09/24
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Umber hominid location
  05/08/24
houses/property are tangible, unlike most other financial th...
deep casino water buffalo
  05/08/24
correct
Offensive potus
  05/09/24
only access to leverage proles have. the believe themselves ...
maize appetizing toilet seat jap
  05/08/24
Exactly cr. It's the only "asset class" that prole...
pearly puppy elastic band
  05/08/24
except the latter understand real estate cycles
motley house wrinkle
  05/08/24
Quote from an old thread: To get in the mind of a prole, ...
Submissive Carnelian Coldplay Fan
  05/08/24
the crab bucket mentality of the proles is especially apt. n...
maize appetizing toilet seat jap
  05/08/24
I had a friend who lived in a luxury high rise he couldn't a...
chartreuse roommate
  05/08/24
20 years ago I knew a guy who owned 3 houses in another stat...
motley house wrinkle
  05/08/24
I escaped the pit. problem is you are always "from"...
insane striped hyena crackhouse
  05/08/24
But I don't have a pit like that
Flatulent rigor menage
  05/08/24
The dog turned the rat and the snake against each other and ...
Sticky magenta gaping
  05/08/24
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Submissive Carnelian Coldplay Fan
  05/08/24
Marlon Brando loved cats
exciting coral pit
  05/09/24
I hate this gay and retarded kike shithole
Floppy painfully honest locale faggot firefighter
  05/08/24
xo or America?
motley house wrinkle
  05/08/24
Yeah
Floppy painfully honest locale faggot firefighter
  05/08/24
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motley house wrinkle
  05/08/24
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Arrogant piazza
  05/08/24
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exciting coral pit
  05/09/24
A lot of privileged morons in this thread. Houses are lit...
Odious Dull Base Fat Ankles
  05/08/24
just invest in low-cost index funds in your 401k, bro.
free-loading judgmental dilemma generalized bond
  05/08/24
Oh wow, so if you make $50k and put away 10% of your income,...
Odious Dull Base Fat Ankles
  05/08/24
It sounds like you're really not getting the miracle of comp...
Arrogant piazza
  05/08/24
you seem about 20% of the way towards identifying the system...
motley house wrinkle
  05/08/24
The top of the flipper market clearly do very well. High end...
Garnet Vigorous Useless Brakes
  05/08/24
They luv the idea of making quick money.
Adventurous Tanning Salon Turdskin
  05/08/24
They would rather be the perpetrators of house prices than t...
At-the-ready sickened hall
  05/08/24
I seem to have unlocked the secret to getting engagement her...
curious blathering filthpig
  05/08/24
property + proles are both low hanging fruit but yes they wo...
motley house wrinkle
  05/09/24
Other forms of significant wealth creation are too abstract ...
Jet-lagged plaza
  05/09/24
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Umber hominid location
  05/09/24
we do this thread once every a year and this is always the m...
transparent trip ticket booth goal in life
  05/09/24
As always CR on this topic
Exhilarant Bat Shit Crazy Regret
  05/09/24
Don’t forget a major part of their familiarity is thei...
Exhilarant Bat Shit Crazy Regret
  05/09/24
This 2009 SI article is required reading on this point ht...
Umber hominid location
  05/09/24
the stock market is boring. real estate is more "fun&qu...
boyish bearded associate home
  05/09/24
also, shiplap
exciting coral pit
  05/09/24
proles love pipe dreams, only to come out on the losing end-...
Rambunctious multi-colored half-breed hairy legs
  05/09/24


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Date: May 8th, 2024 2:38 PM
Author: curious blathering filthpig



(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: Submissive Carnelian Coldplay Fan

>$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: motley house wrinkle

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: Submissive Carnelian Coldplay Fan

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: flushed lay idiot

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: motley house wrinkle

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: ivory meetinghouse

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: Poppy erotic heaven boltzmann

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: Floppy painfully honest locale faggot firefighter



(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: motley house wrinkle

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: Umber hominid location

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: slimy abnormal codepig

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: motley house wrinkle

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: free-loading judgmental dilemma generalized bond

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: motley house wrinkle

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: slimy abnormal codepig



(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: Umber hominid location

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: motley house wrinkle

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: exciting coral pit

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: Arousing ungodly circlehead fortuitous meteor

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: Passionate den

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: Mildly autistic mad cow disease church

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: Passionate den

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: fishy orchestra pit

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: Mildly autistic mad cow disease church

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: exciting coral pit

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: Umber hominid location



(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: deep casino water buffalo

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: Offensive potus

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: maize appetizing toilet seat jap

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: pearly puppy elastic band

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: motley house wrinkle

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: Submissive Carnelian Coldplay Fan

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: maize appetizing toilet seat jap

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: chartreuse roommate

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: motley house wrinkle

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: insane striped hyena crackhouse

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: Flatulent rigor menage

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: Sticky magenta gaping

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: Submissive Carnelian Coldplay Fan



(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: exciting coral pit

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: Floppy painfully honest locale faggot firefighter

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: motley house wrinkle

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: Floppy painfully honest locale faggot firefighter

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: motley house wrinkle



(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: Arrogant piazza



(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: exciting coral pit



(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: Odious Dull Base Fat Ankles

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: free-loading judgmental dilemma generalized bond

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: Odious Dull Base Fat Ankles

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: Arrogant piazza

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: motley house wrinkle

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: Garnet Vigorous Useless Brakes

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: Adventurous Tanning Salon Turdskin

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: At-the-ready sickened hall

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: curious blathering filthpig

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: motley house wrinkle

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: Jet-lagged plaza

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: Umber hominid location



(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: transparent trip ticket booth goal in life

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: Exhilarant Bat Shit Crazy Regret

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: Exhilarant Bat Shit Crazy Regret

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: Umber hominid location

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: boyish bearded associate home

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: exciting coral pit

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: Rambunctious multi-colored half-breed hairy legs

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)