Drunk posting on Bigger Pockets

[Jim K.]

Just out of curiosity, have you ever been guilty of PWI (Posting While Intoxicated) in the BiggerPockets forums? Bonus points for PWH stories.

[Jim K.]

John Barleycorn never got a hold on me...I got lucky. See, there I go again, making a joke of something that isn't funny at all to a lot of people.

[Marko Zlatic]

Originally posted by @Matthew Paul:

On occassion I post when I am sober , if that counts 

 LMAO! legendary response

[Ron Gallagher]

I'm drunk right now.

[Randy E.]

Originally posted by @Jim K.:

Just out of curiosity, have you ever been guilty of PWI (Posting While Intoxicated) in the BiggerPockets forums? Bonus points for PWH stories.

 Maybe, but I don't almost never drink to the point of intoxication any more.  And for some reason, I always felt BP was like the J.O.B. of internet forums.  I wouldn't drink and post here, just like I wouldn't have gotten drunk and gone to work in the past.  I don't know why I look at it like that, but I can't shake that thought.

I am guilty of drinking and reading on BP.  Some of the stuff that normally makes me shake my head, makes me laugh if I've had a couple of drinks.

[Ronald Morris]

Don’t ask questions you might

Not want the answers to lol

[Jim K.]

Originally posted by @Randy E.:

I am guilty of drinking and reading on BP.  Some of the stuff that normally makes me shake my head, makes me laugh if I've had a couple of drinks.

So Randy, what do you do when you read the stuff that would make any sane sober person fall out of their chair laughing, like most of the Mr. Fix-It-Tenant posts: "My tenant says he's willing to remodel the bathroom if I throw him a month's rent and pay for materials, do you think it's a good idea?"

[Alan Feldman]

@Jim K. I am not as think as you drunk I am

[Randy E.]

Originally posted by @Jim K.:

Originally posted by @Randy E.:

I am guilty of drinking and reading on BP.  Some of the stuff that normally makes me shake my head, makes me laugh if I've had a couple of drinks.

So Randy, what do you do when you read the stuff that would make any sane sober person fall out of their chair laughing, like most of the Mr. Fix-It-Tenant posts: "My tenant says he's willing to remodel the bathroom if I throw him a month's rent and pay for materials, do you think it's a good idea?"

 LOL.

I understand where those landlords are coming from.  Most every landlord with a subpar bathroom (or kitchen) would like to have a better bath or kitchen if it would bring higher rent.  Most landlords would rather not pay the expense.  Only those who have never witnessed a tenant's (any tenant) handiwork would seriously consider the offer.  There was a time I considered it, and once or twice I made that deal with the devil.  Luckily, I don't need to play with fire more than once to learn my lesson.

When I read a landlord asking "should I?" I sit in my chair and nod my head "Hell yes, you should."  It's like putting your kids in group sports.  Part of the reason is to get some physical activity.  Part of the reason is to have them learn to work/play with different/difficult people and to learn to lose.  I want a newbie landlord to take that chance, and I want them to get burned with some result that will burn itself into their memory.  Some things, we have to experience to learn.  That was something I had to experience to learn how bad of an idea it was.

When I read those questions, my only regret is I will never get to hear the landlord's story about how it turned out.

[James Mackey]

@Jim K.

No, but I want to every time a real estate agent says you need a real estate agent and a property manager says you need to hire a property manager.

[Max T.]

@Thomas S.

I just assumed that was the Canadian way.

[Michael P.]

 In Soviet Russia drunk website posts you!

[Jim K.]

Originally posted by @James Mackey:

@Jim K.

No, but I want to every time a real estate agent says you need a real estate agent and a property manager says you need to hire a property manager.

 How about every time a contractor insists that you absolutely, positively need to hire a contractor and nothing else will do?

[Linda S.]

@Jim K.,

No, I don't drink while on BP.      Sometimes it is fun to follow a thread and read the responses after a drink though!    That $5 sandwich one was really entertaining!   

Some people take things so personal on this website, and get so defensive... and  are so determined to prove they are right, it's like-- loosen up, grab a drink, you really need one.

[Steve Vaughan]

Originally posted by @Jim K.:

Originally posted by @James Mackey:

@Jim K.

No, but I want to every time a real estate agent says you need a real estate agent and a property manager says you need to hire a property manager.

 How about every time a contractor insists that you absolutely, positively need to hire a contractor and nothing else will do?

Or the CPA or attorney who could help... but only says to hire a CPA or retain an attorney. Aggravating! 

Leaves us that can add or that have common sense to try and answer... only to be taken to the woodshed if only 98% correcct.

[Jim K.]

@Linda S.

Sometimes you read these chains of responses where each poster is obvious just trying to be holier than the last one...usually when it's a landlord asking about how to stick it to a tenant over something like a stained carpet or a ding in a door. Charge them $50! No, charge them $100! No, hold back the whole deposit! NO, GET A JUDGMENT AND RUIN THEIR LIVES!!!

[Jim K.]

@Steve Vaughan

Just handed over our stuff to the CPA. Please, no bloodbath this year...

[Dana Whicker]

@Jim K.

I've posted drunk on the interwebs a couple or more times. I can't remember if I've done it on BP but I hope not.

[Stephen Blalock]

@Steve Vaughan

Nap #2??

10x napper?

Lol, that sounds like an awesome lifestyle :)

[Steve Vaughan]

Originally posted by @Stephen Blalock:

@Steve Vaughan

Nap #2??

10x napper?

Lol, that sounds like an awesome lifestyle :)

 Kind of a running moniker I got a couple years in to being here. .... I'd rather take a nap than do that deal or have that mortgage forever or argue about that $100 deposit refund kind of thing.

It was either this title or Bad Handyman.  LOL

Represents having choices more than sleeping all day of course.   Yes, choices and freedom are good!

[James Wise]

Originally posted by @Victor S.:

Originally posted by @Jim K.:

@Ned Carey

In which case, Ned, let me hasten to assure you that I have never been tipsy, buzzed, or drunk posting on this site and never will be. I did say something stupid and bigoted over in another thread that I most definitely should NOT have said (of course I thought it was hilarious and perfectly appropriate at the time), and it got me thinking.

 is that the $5 sandwich thread? lol the one (joke) that was left there is gold, anyway :) i've posted after several dirty bastards before, but nothing out of the ordinary. 

Originally posted by @John Thedford:

Does meth count?

It all makes sense now. Only a guy on meth would have such a laser focus on anti-wholesaling! :D

 Wholesaling is still a thing? You must be drunk sir.

[Jess White]

@Jim K. Come on dude, of course people are surfing the forums and posting after a beer or two. Just like people are at home watching tv, reading a book, or surfing social media after a couple beers.

[Joseph ODonovan]

@Jim K. My last name is O'Donovan. If I say I never drink and post, who the hell is gonna believe me?

[Lee Bell]

Never. LOL.

[Maurice D.]

I'posting this from a bar, but sober drinking water..

[Mike G.]

@Jim K. zip it or ticket