Do you tell your coworkers about your real estate properties?

[Alex Silang]

Just wanted to see what people do. I've owned RE for about 3-4 years and I haven't told a single coworker about it. I'm a private person in general. 

Still though sometimes I consider it. I think it's interesting conversation material. It'd make me look smart in front of them (I think.)

What do you think?

[Haris Bajric]

I would be very careful, I chose to tell some of my co-workers that i started flipping homes and very shortly after that I had a talk with my supervisor about me making sure that i stay focused on my job and that i make sure that I am not doing stuff for the houses and taking phone calls from Contractors while I am at work. I thought it was complete bulls**t because I was doing my job perfectly fine and I was not doing anything wrong on the company time. I told myself that I will not tell anyone anything at work anymore and just recently, a year later, my boss decides to tell me how he thinks the Real Estate stuff obviously did not work out for me since I have not done one since. 

What he doesn't know is that I have done two flips since then and I was still doing the same exact job. The point of the story is that absolutely nothing changed and my boss got jealous because he is a person that makes close to 6 figures and lives paycheck to paycheck and cant understand how I can have the money to do flips or anything like that. I would just be very careful with telling everyone, just my opinion.