Classic approach I'd say, I can see the line forming already!

Enough money to buy healthy meals if you don't like to cook, etc.But the one thing I can't generate any more of is time.In the next post I'll outline how we made the money and how long it took (about 30 years), and the event of fortunate timing and good luck that started it (my grandmother pushing my parents to buy some apartments after the S&L crisis around 1990 - when banks could barely give complexes away and you could do 90% leverage deals).I'm the fortunate son of a grandmother who had a classic value investor's eye (even though she was trained as a nurse) and who started buying single family homes back in the 1950's and renting them out.

Inventing something and turning it into a profitable business is a classical way to make that much money.For real estate you absolutely can get there, but you have to be willing to take on a lot of risk to do so.  

On their website, they even acknowledge that the name of their company was inspired by the classic Ayn Rand novel,.

A classic example might be the nation-wide demise of buggy whip manufacturing with the advent of the internal combustion engine.

A classic bait and switch.

., 401K, a classic car?

However since your the classic potential private lender.. let me ask you are you going to lend someone you don't know who is probably a beginner money for a RE deal at 4% ???

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