Posted on 02/12/2020 9:15:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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I have over a million dollars in assets (real estate), own a business and I always feel broke.
Same here.
I’ve got a decamillionaire in my family who is scared to death of the spouse becoming a near vegetable, requiring expensive long-term care that would drain the coffers.
I think those most worried about money are those who work hardest to make sure they have the money they hope will put them beyond worry.
MILLIONAIRE IS SO 1980S, IT’S ALL ABOUT THE B-WORD NOW.
At the risk of being pedantic (which I am), a term cannot infer anything. A term can imply, however.
In the Bible, to the point of the article: gain is not godliness; but godliness with contentment is great gain. I like that idea. It seems that great wealth is only enjoyable if one is benevolent and thrifty. It's nice not to have to think about money; and that, it seems to me, is the upside of wealth.
RE: I have over a million dollars in assets (real estate), own a business and I always feel broke.
1) Do you FULLY OWN the real estate assets, or do you still owe money to the banks or lending company?
2) How much do you have to pay on maintenance and property taxes on your real estate? Are they stable or going up above inflation?
3) Are your tenants reliable and trustworthy?
4) How are property prices trending in your area?
Your answers to the above question will tell us why you feel broke or confident about your finances.
I had a lot of money once, but for the benefit of any IRS agents who may be watching, I lost it all in a tragic boating accident.
Let me tell you a secret: Having money is like having syphlis-you don’t go telling everybody about it.
Tell me what’s the point of being a millionaire and all this high profiling living, when you may have a massive heart attack or stroke in the next hour and you’re in Hades for eternity?
Most people forget that while you may plan the next 20 or 30 years of your life, there are others with more power than you - whom you never see or suspect, that can pull your silver cord (Ecclesiastes 12:6) and end it in the blink of an eye.
Life is a vapor and money is only temporary.
James 4:14
Psalm 144:4
“At the risk of being pedantic”
I prefer cringing in silence, generally, but it’s not good to bottle things up for too long.
[I have over a million dollars in assets (real estate), own a business and I always feel broke.]
You’ll keep more friends that way (cringing in silence, I mean).
If you have a Bentley and a Ferrari and live in Malibu tough to hide your money.
Doesn’t matter if you are rich or poor...if you are not enjoying life then you are missing out.
I’d want a Firebird and a trailer if I lived in Malibu.
However I would update and get voice mail over the answering machine.
I should feel financially comfortable today. However, I am very worried about the future. A fluke, such as Bernie seizing power, could wipe out my assets and plunge the country into chaos like we haven’t seen in 150-plus years, if ever.
Could Bernie win? The CIA has overthrown numerous foreign governments in the past, occasionally through direct action, and we now know for a fact that CIA leadership was part of the ongoing effort to remove the duly-elected President of the United States. No, I don’t feel at all rich or comfortable given that uncertainty.
those items prohibited by city code. Nothing less than a mercedes and no 200s or 300s
Cuz it’s not a feeling?? It’s a spend as you go plan.
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