They are hammered by Uncle Sam in taxes.

Then turned over to uncle sam as payment in kind.

As for preferred stocks, I am cautious there as well as I wouldn't be surprised to see Uncle Sam exercise his muscle and step in to tell banks that they CANNOT pay common OR preferred dividends.

But I know that 37k won't take you far at all, even if Uncle Sam lets you keep all of it.

@Sam Cohen, Hello and welcome to BP!

@Sam Parkins Thank you very much for your response and input.

Originally posted by Sam Fong: Thank you all for chiming in.

Originally posted by @Sam Shueh:I do not recall one can get Tesla to finance your purchase.

@Sam Shueh my rate of acceptance is much lower, maybe 10% if not less, but I do have very strong cash buyers and the listing agent doesn't have the right to not work with a presented offer.Yes, I've got all that "it's a joke", no answers etc - but the listing agent has to submit my offer to the seller.You'll be surprised to learn how unacceptable low offers are accepted sometimes.I'll give you one example: the house was priced in high $700K, I made an offer for $539K, get that "it's a joke?!?"

Thank you @Sam Shueh I'm also in high tech and have similar income to the professionals.