All Forum Posts by: Darius Parsia

There's always going to be winds blowing your sail. The question then becomes: how do you adjust? Are you finding solutions or someone to blame? The only thing constant is change. 

 Do you actually know what a conspiracy theory is? Your "list of 30" is a flippin joke. For example: 

#10Not really a conspiracy but the author of Hunt for Red October got the story of submarines so accurate that the department of defense investigated him thinking he was a spy.

or

#8My grandfather for years told everyone his well water was poisoned. Everyone thought it was one of his (many) delusions. Eventually one of my uncles tested the water from his well and it turns out it was unsafe to drink.

or

#15Drug money is used to rig elections and train brutal, corporate-sponsored dictators around the world.

or

#17All FIFA World Cups were purchased from 1998 through 2014. When I know that in 2002, I heard about who would win each year. And it happened!

or

#22Playing football causes brain damage. They knew since the 80s but it was becoming such a juggernaut that they climate change denier’d it.

.... I mean come on kid, seriously, what insanity cult are you involved in? I couldn't even stomach to make it through your koo-koo list. But hey it had I think 2 or 3 half truths in it. And classified is not the same as conspiracy theory. 

And a slew of the other ones are just ridiculous. Oh the CIA had a poison dart gun nobody knew about and later admitted. Yeah, it's called CLASSIFIED, the military has a way for doing that, ya know, so they can do their job. It's kinda tough to get things done advertising to the enemy all your best tools and tricks. 

And as for your phone listening in, guess what, you approved that. Read your EULA next time, but hey, I guess not reading the EULA is now a conspiracy theory. 

Look, your down a rabbit hole of crazy, it's obvious sense doesn't make it's way down there for ya so what's the point of trying to share any. 

Ok, so just to recap here. 

There is 13 families, who rule the world. A super-secret cabal. And, they hate you, there focus is for you to suffer and die, because they want to rule less people. 

And this super-secret cabal, is so krafty, that they have taken over control of the world, all world leaders, all countries. They control USA, Russia, China, everywhere. There so krafty at what they do, they have everyone, everywhere, under their thumb. 

.... Except you. 

You, from your, I assume parents basement, have "figured em all out". You've been researching them, this super-secret cabal so skilled they have usurped nations but you, you got em pegged..... 

Are you following the notion here. How is it they can both be so krafty that they control nations and the world, but you have em all sorted and plotted out.    Are you freaking super-man or something? 

No kidding, 8/10 you say. Which 8/10 is that?     Flat Earth? is that one of the 8 or the 2? Hollow Earth? Or maybe that Real Estate will collapse in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023..... Or maybe that lizard people secretly rule the world. Or that the space ship is following hail-Bop comet and we all gotta get some Nikes, cut our nuggets off and drink the kool-aid to catch a ride? 

Oh, how I could go on and on and on and on with wack-a-mole insanity conspiracy theories. 

How's all that food prep from the end of everything in '09' treating ya? Got your bug-out-bag packed? Still waiting for "Mad Max world"? 

@Darius Parsia

i'm not diminishing anything.  i'm trying to understand what your position is, and so i'm asking questions about it.  i've stated over and over that cash flow is much tougher to come by now, and i didn't say any of the other methods were easy or obvious.  i was just pointing out to you that there are ways to invest other than with hard money.  it was a very narrow point.

a lot to respond to in what you just posted, but i'd argue we need more immigration - legal, of course.  the birth rate is going down and population growth is slowing... that is going to present an enormous challenge.

are you buying right now?  i'm still trying.  i have a small portfolio but i'm still looking to grow.  cash flow is nearly impossible so i'm buying for equity.

@Darius Parsia a few responses to your response to me.

"The stock market should have corrected, the only thing preventing it from not crashing hard this past year was massive money printing."

OK... but it didn't crash.  This is like saying "house prices should be cheaper, the only reason they're not is the demand and the demand is propping them up."  It just doesn't really help us predict what's going to happen.

"Hard money loans will be the likely only option to invest in flip/rental opportunities if leverage is needed"

I get it, you're making the point that the rise in interest rates has changed things. But your statement isn't accurate - there are LOTS of ways to invest even now without hard money. I'm having success with seller finance. House hacking still works. Others might buy all in cash. It seems like CRE is actually getting hit harder than residential RE.

"if investors are going to have to compete more and more with BlackRock, entering REI will continue to become difficult for small time and new investors."

I don't think we are competing more and more with BlackRock - the pace of their buying has slowed. And the amount of real estate they owned was always overstated - it's very concentrated in just a handful of markets, and I believe all the institutional investors combined still only own 2-4% of all SFHs.  They're a convenient bogeyman but they're just not that much of a factor outside specific neighborhoods in specific markets.

I'd go a step further and say it's yet another on the pile of: "I can't find the deal I want, so it must be the markets fault. And since it's not what I want, it must all fall-down, back to where I want it, so I can easily do REI".