If you bought stock in Netflix at the dawn of the streaming age, you didn't hear people say, "Well, you can't count on appreciation."

I'm not saying I have the answers, I'm just saying I'm trying out a few things since my money really won't make anything in a savings account or even necessarily invested in the stock market.

For tax purposes, this is the sale of a capital asset and so treated like a stock. 

As AIRBNB stock goes public today on Nasdaq (ABNB) with a crazy high valuation during a pandemic, I was wondering about your thoughts on impact to those of you using their services?

Unfortunately, it doesn't unlock the bulk of his 401k yet and we'd really like to get that $ out of the stock market and into more properties so converting that to a self directed IRA will be our next move when he (hopefully) "retires" towards the end of 2021.

Fortunately, there's tons of small multi-family housing stock in Chicago.

There'd be a similar bias if you went to a stock investing forum and asked similar questions about stocks. 

“Our housing stock is still relatively affordable for the Austin area and the quality is great.

Predictions about the housing market are perhaps second only to predictions about the stock market in popularity, and you can therefore expect a high ratio of frauds in the mix of self-appointed oracles.

We stock the kitchen mostly from IKEA and Dollar Tree.