As we are now facing the possibility of a downturn in prices of real estate in many areas combined with rents getting so high regular people are having more trouble, I'm moving some of my investments towards crypto, AI and robotics, etc. at least until the market shows me that real estate is more reasonable. --97.85.x.xx

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It's not just a way of life, it's a philosophy! --47.248.xxx.xxx

Any way of avoiding over sight of money being transfer is going to make it easier for criminals to laundry dirty money along countries try to avoid the effects of economic sanctions. Money must be in official currencies where In Canada the largest denomination is $100 CDN where one time there was a thousand denomination where criminals used that a lot. --216.110.xxx.xxx

They're not making any more dirt. I'm going to stick with what I know. --104.230.xxx.xxx

I do hear that crypto is going to be allowed in SDIRAs. Perhaps that is a gateway for wealth for folks like Richard. Me, I want to be more in control of the value of something so i look for those forced appreciation places. Grante, they have become much harder to find --98.17.xx.xxx

The problem is we all have perfect hindsight. The fortune is to be made if you have foresight. Who really knows what the future holds but I can tell you for sure for several millennia the rich have gotten richer using real estate not the stock market or crypto. --209.205.xxx.xx

Robin,I am with you,i dont get it so not buying it --98.96.xxx.xxx

Now that I have made enough to last my lifetime and my kids, I still sit back and I can see what I missed. Ouch! It could have been so much more. Still, no reason to cry over opportunities that are gone, what to do is to see the next big opportunities which, I think, are robotics and AI. I will still do fixers but now I really need to find reliable helpers that fit the money available or else I have to go back to looking at high end fixers like I used to do with partners in coastal Calif, say 1 to 1.5 million to buy, another 500K to 1 million to fix up, then sell them for 3-5 million. Then at least I can afford to pay the high labor costs for the repairs without worrying about it. I can't afford to pay those costs on sub 175K final value properties as there is not enough room to buy, fix, and profit in current prices around here, not to mention carrying costs. Right now I have a few I picked up very cheap after the crash of 2007-2009 and they throw off enough to be ok, but not enough to spend like I used to do. Now that I'm getting older I find I just don't need the kind of cash flow as before. --97.85.x.xx

So what opportunities are you finding interesting? Crypto ETFs ? AI ETFs? Individual stocks ? --208.161.xxx.xx

Houses in Japan and their culture are interesting because, in Japan, they figure that a house is worn out after 30 years and the tax structure of the country along with this and their culture leads to many people just walking away from these houses. I can buy them for a good price and have them rehabbed and then rent them out with a company there handling it. There are few problems that we have in this country with bums, deadbeats, squatters and the entitled crowd. I look at things going on in big cities here -activist judges, tenants having more rights than owners, and an often hostile environment to landlords and I think there has to be better opportunity away from these things. --97.85.x.xx

Akiya, wife got to know a Japanese lady on a recent trip (the host of the AirBnb where she stayed), she helped hook up some real estate agents in a city near Narita. Wife bought 3 AKiya for a price of half a single family here and told the lady to knock her socks off, do whatever she likes to rent them out as AirBnb. That was 2 months ago, they are slow, I may go get my hands dirty to help fix them up next year. Enough interest on Akiya, we can start a new thread (I am building a SFH for myself, boy, everything is pretty expensive, I am GC and looking to spend $200/sqft on a custom home) --173.69.xx.xxx

Akiya, wife got to know a Japanese lady on a recent trip (the host of the AirBnb where she stayed), she helped hook up some real estate agents in a city near Narita. Wife bought 3 AKiya for a price of half a single family here and told the lady to knock her socks off, do whatever she likes to rent them out as AirBnb. That was 2 months ago, they are slow, I may go get my hands dirty to help fix them up next year. Enough interest on Akiya, we can start a new thread (I am building a SFH for myself, boy, everything is pretty expensive, I am GC and looking to spend $200/sqft on a custom home) --173.69.xx.xxx

I wanna hear more about your Japan venture and your personal house build. So let us know how those projects go in future posts. And Richard, I want to hear if you buy any crypto ETF or do anything in that department --65.188.xxx.xxx