Unless you get lucky and that kid turns out to be Bill Gates, bringing another human being into your home for 18+years is just about the most unfrugal thing you could possibly do in your life.

@James Wise The Real Estate business shows a fascinating side of human behaviour — good and/or bad.

On the other hand bringing 23K across a border well known for drug and human trafficking while may be legal sounds rather ill advised. 

"Memes are just these ideas that have been planted into us about what is possible or not for us, about what we can do and what we can’t do, what human beings are capable of and all of that kind of thing.

@Alex Corral As an investor, I invest for the sole purpose of regular Cash Flow because you gotta remember that 3 30-year mortgages would outlive most human beings.

I suspect that REI was willing to put any warm body in the property to stop paying me out of their own pocket for what could have been another three months.The following month, the tenant stopped paying and did not answer my attempts to communicate.  

I developed a software program that taught students how to trade stock and options, wrote a book and I watched maybe 30,000 students lose millions and millions of dollars not only by trading stocks and options, but by making the dumbest and stupidest investments a human can imagine. 

Here is another strange thing about humans.

If I ever want to hide a smallish body, I'm sure I could rip that part of the ceiling out and tuck it up in there. 

It is absolutely possible to be a good human *and* run a business *and* make money *and* not be a push over ......