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2020 Investment Thread

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Cali said:
Does anyone understand this Tesla stock roller-coaster?
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The coaster seems to to only be climbing the big hill if you zoom the time frame out.

I don't know what it is, but bears are flipping to bulls, FUD stories seem to be drying up. Tesla's debt rating is going up and Ford's is going down. Third quarter earnings is coming out this month and it always seems to go up before the drop. Deliveries were a record high and Tesla is expanding everywhere. Range is going up and prices are dropping.
 
Tesla can only go up. In twenty years all other companies will be out of business and it will be trading at $1,000,000 a share.
 
Was thinking this morning about buying into a consumer discretionary index fund but tesla is listed in the top 5
 
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Killroy1999 said:
When you do the ROI, the bigger loan you get, the better the ROI. More money to buy another unit. The renters pay the Taxes, Principal, Interest, management, ect.

I 'own' 1 bedroom here and many bedrooms out of state. Similar situation.

The book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" is how I started. Its more business philosophy than nuts and bolts, but its a easy read.



Its easier than buying a home here. I am on my 4th property managers. I bought my first out of state property ~2006. You can fly out there. Its a tax deductible work trip. Lots of tax benefits.

The more properties you have the Property management give you a volume discount - say down in the 6% range.

My mom is a real estate agent and always wanted me to buy a large place around here. I ran the numbers of buy here vs income properties out of state and rent here. The numbers are much better with income properties out of state.
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Which states or regions in states (other than CA) are good places to buy a rental income property with least overhead ?
 
Indio said:
Which states or regions in states (other than CA) are good places to buy a rental income property with least overhead ?
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The ones with he best rent/PITI (Principal, interest, taxes, insurance)

I don't know. I have not looked in a while. States without state income tax help, right? I'm in College Station TX area.
 
jt2 said:
I don't think there is anything wrong with trying to pick winners with a small portion (10-15%) of one's portfolio, but the simple fact is that it is a speculative game at best, and gambling as done by most.

The majority of professional fund managers can't beat the S&P 500. Don't kid yourself that you're smarter or have access to better information than they do. ;)

https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/investment-pros-cant-beat-the-stock-market-2020-7
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BUT, BUT, BUT 90% of the thread is stock picking? :laughing
 
I've enjoyed the dividends/rentals retirement income discussion. :)
 
I've been complaining about the emo market for at least a decade and I'm sure it's been going on longer than that. For a while I've thought that you needed to have two brains in order to understand the market; the slow and steady buffet brain, then the greedy moron crypto brain, plus have the awareness of when to use which. I think the latter is becoming dominant. Value is whatever people with money say it is, so you just need to learn to work within these new(i.e. stupid) parameters.
 
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