If what you're doing is so wonderfully pure and I'm just too stupid to understand your mastery of the industry why do you have to constantly lie, mischaracterize and misrepresent to raise money?

It would be a better investment to buy lithium or platinum, at least they have some uses in the battery and oil industries respectively; Gold has no use anywhere, it is just a shiny metal.

Stop with the guru sites, the videos, all that nonsense is pure crap designed to drive the lazy into highly risky investments or investment schemes that will surely see you make a little or lose a lot. 

Or am I just slapping you with pure facts, common sense, and logic?

It's really hard to replace that active income with passive income without a huge pile starting out.From a pure ROI perspective, the highest returning strategies right now are flipping and lending.

And people start seeing you everywhere providing pure value.Remember this is something you SHOULD do regardless.

And there’s no catalytic economic drivers for those areas.Don’t do it unless you are doing it just for fun and pure speculation.  

If you're curious - read it here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/51/topics/1221700-rant-...In closing: The dangers of shifting the timing (of your income, expenses, and business transactions.)A purely mathematical exercise may indicate some beneficial timing for this or that.

How are folks navigating 1031 and high financing rates vs taking capital gains hit and having pure cash on hand to redeploy elsewhere (in my case, rebuilding on my primary residence)?

As of 2024, it shows the sell price as pure income and all the expenses isn't enough to offset the tax.