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    Biggest weakness as an investor.

    Man - welcome to the club. Other than AAPL & S&P 500 ETF, I've bought and sold most of my holdings (that I manage myself - I do have a brokerage account that I pay an advisor) - win some, lose some. But like you, if I had just left most of it alone I'd be up 5x higher (or more!). I've been...
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    Mortgage rates

    The biggest issue is she wanted to pay off all the debt and have a cash cushion - so regardless, we needed to refinance it/sell it.
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    Mortgage rates

    Well, they had it homesteaded so it only went up marginally every year - not $5k/year. I'm going to look into the deed thing to see if we can claim homestead.
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    Mortgage rates

    Thanks - I'll look into this asap!
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    Mortgage rates

    I've seen condo prices drop around here (Pinellas County) over the last year - and the HOA's have all gone up. I sold my Ponte Vedra condo in 2018 - I owned it for 18+ years and made just over $100k profit, if I had held onto it until 2022 I would have made another $100k (makes me sick). Condo...
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    2024 Investing Thread

    My cousin has property in Virginia and he grows Christmas trees on a portion of it and gets a big tax break for being a Christmas tree "farmer/farm" - he's never sold a single tree either. lol
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    Tuesday Favorites….military strategist and tactician

    Anyone have a good suggestion on a book about the Ottoman Empire and/or Genghis Kahn? Particularly looking for an author that's known for this type of history - I googled books on the topic and there's a 100+ different books/authors. On the subject of the Civil War - Erik Larson has a new book...
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    Kentucky & whether or not Florida is truly southern

    I'm late the this party - but when did Swamp Donkey return? lol I'm from Jacksonville - I have a slight "north Florida" southern accent. When I lived in DC people would ask me "where are you from?" When I told them I was from Florida they'd respond, "FLORIDA?" And I'd tell them that Florida is...
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    2024 Investing Thread

    I've been watching EDV (ETF) - it fell almost 3% today on the inflation news. If the fed cuts rates this year we all know the fix is in (on trying to pump up the economy). There's absolutely no justification to cut rates at this point.
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    2024 Investing Thread

    Anyone following Tesla - they are taking a beating, profit expectations are down 48% from last year. Meanwhile, the Biden admin is pushing EV's and the most popular EV on the market is tanking. lol https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-shares-tumble-toward-break-111555532.html
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    Boeing stock takes another beating

    I bought Exxon after the Valdez disaster and cashed in big-time (I usually just leave any profits in the account and use it for other investments, etc), but for the first time ever I took most of the profit (around $8k) and used it to party in Vegas for my 40th birthday. lol I'm not sure if it...
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    Fitness advice/suggestions

    I ran 3 sub 60's in the Gate. Fun race, the bridge at the end sucks, but otherwise it's always a good time! And I was one of the first to the beer garden after each race!
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    Fitness advice/suggestions

    One of my running goals for about 3, 4 years was breaking 3 hours in the marathon - I failed 5 times going for it, then finally hit it. Pretty much every other distance, except the marathon, I felt that I had run a "perfect race" (i.e. I "didn't leave anything on the course" - gave it my all)...
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    Show recommendation thread

    Oz was one of the most dark, brutal tv shows I've ever watched - makes you definitely not want to go to jail! lol
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    Welp...

    I apologize for just now catching this. Thread titles matter - regardless of which forum we're in. Be better! (i.e. thread title has AIDS)
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