I have to admit, your limited ability is rather soul crushing.

But humiliation doesn't seem to stop you so you'll probably go far in life.

Yeah it's a shame that you didn't take my advice there. Unfortunately I was more accurate than I had thought.

The quality of tenants has really diminished lately. Maybe time to cash out and sell the portfolio to an actual slumlord.

With all the stuff that was broken this year by these savages, plus the cost of lead lateral replacements, cash flow was minimal.

Of course, now that a few dozen snowflakes abused the system to get dogs into their no-pets-allowed buildings, I'm sure next year's repair and turnover costs will increase even further.

You own the property? I thought you were a middleman.

We're owner-operators, not a third party management firm.

I believe what you're referring to is the fact that I do not personally own all of this real estate, and am instead an employee of said firm. In that sense, I get to detach from some of the stress involved with direct ownership, like frivolous lawsuits by snowflakes who complain to daddy's lawyers that their application wasn't chosen out of the pool of approved applicants. No, we didn't discriminate against you because of your fake disability, we passed on you because you seemed annoying and the other people weren't.

We sell cleaning and maintenance services to a number of third party property managers, and I can confirm that is an absolutely miserable way to make a living. None of those people are happy.

That wikipedia article was fascinating. I confess that I did not understand how extensive freedom to roam rights are in some countries.

This is a little silly. Even conservative groups like the Cato Institute rank the U.S. barely in the top 25 on a Personal Freedom Index. (Personal Freedom is defined broadly and encompasses pretty much what you would expect.)

https://www.cato.org/human-freedom-index/2021

Sounds like something you'd hear at a high school party directed toward a 17-year-old alcoholic after being forced to listen to his diatribe and not a middle-aged retiree, but okay.


There are more variables at play, no? I wouldn't expect a country where it's too cold to fvck to have high crime rates. Isn't like half of the incarcerated population in the US due to drug offenses?

Are you the middle aged guy who soul crushes strangers on the internet or the 17 year old drunk ?

I know which I'd rather be.

I hired a felon too. He lasted a couple of years, wasn't great, went to a criminal defense firm, and is now doing 20 to life. Sometimes people can turn around and sometimes they can't.

And vice-versa.

One guy who worked for me a few times was a cousin of another guy who worked for me regularly. He is in prison now for a long sentence, possibly life. I don't know if he had a record before. He was a very good guy though in every interaction I ever had with him or anything at work and a very genuine and honest person. He had pretty clearly had some time in gangs though, judging from tattoos and his being wary of going to certain areas. I don't know what happened to put him in prison now. His cousin said "wrong place at the wrong time" which I would guess meant he was involved in a fight/shooting with rivals/enemies or something. If it were that, something like a gang fight, I still wouldn't have any qualms about inviting him to my house. He was caught up in a different world that was entirely separate.

Just pointing out that a retired middle-aged guy doesn't have a whole lot of life left to go or things to do, much to your chagrin. Western States, UTMB, MOAB, and Badwater are about it for me. Most of that is out of my control, though, so yeah.

LOL

Retired people have plenty to do. What the hell are you even talking about ?


Anyway, Merry Xmas.

WTF?

I am basically a retired middle age guy, unless i get drawn into a new company endeavour.

I bet I enjoy a heck of a lot more life than most normal people, covid aside. Traveling, hiking, cycling, socializing, dating.

As they say, youth is wasted on the young. Far more to do and enjoy and life to live once you are middle aged and have some resources.

Merry Christmas.

Just making the point that the "I bet you'll go far in life" diss is best reserved for misdirected young people than toward retired people with very few bucket list goals left. Like, I could totally fukk up my life until the day I die and my kids will still be well taken care of posthumously.

+1

Merry (belated) Christmas, everybody!

Rittenhouse trying to cash in on his 15 minutes.


https://www.foxnews.com/media/kyle-r...bility-project

Imagine being on the jury and Kyle explaining how he was damaged from him being called a murderer when all he did was kill a couple of people.

A (maybe)? high school graduate with no skills is Running some kind of grift PAC based on people calling him a murderer. Kind of hard to prove damages when he'd be lucky to have a min wage job if proprl just ignored him.

pretty sure there is exact case law about calling someone a "cold blooded murderer" being opinion and obviously not actionable.

just a massive grift to steal from the same people that swear the covington kid got more than 6 figures..

Rittenhouse to sue all and sundry to make as much moolah as possible. He seems to have totally recovered from any trauma one might be expected to suffer after killing two people.

not watching the video. just judging off the derposphere responses i've seen. it seems doubtful that he would win a lawsuit against anyone calling him a "murderer" if that's what you are talking about.

I think trying to profit from killing two people, even in self defence, instead of moving on and staying out of the spotlight is not a good look.
Isn't murder a legal term though? Couldn't he possibly have a defamation case if a pundit declared him a murderer after the acquittal, for example?
Regardless though he seems to be trying to make money from his infamy, when you boil it down. Which again isn't a good look or not to me anyway.

You are not alone with this thought