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January 3, 2010 at 9:44 AM #499488January 3, 2010 at 10:33 AM #498617Allan from FallbrookParticipant
[quote=clearfund]
FLIPPING IS NOT INVESTING: BE AN INVESTOR, NOT A FLIPPER!!![/quote]Clearfund: However, what you’re advocating isn’t investing, either. Its speculating, pure and simple.
Regardless of your “transaction structure”, you’re still making bets on someone else’s valuation (either the market’s or prevailing wisdom at the time) and that is both volatile and dangerous.
You can tinker with the numbers on either a DCF or FV basis to support your valuation, but isn’t that how we got into this mess in the first place?
Using Vegas as an example, you have no way of actually predicting (with any degree of accuracy) where values will be over your timeline, which is directly opposed to being able to predict (with a fair degree of accuracy) where a company’s fortunes will take them over the same period using simple valuation tools. Hence, the difference between speculation and investment.
January 3, 2010 at 10:33 AM #498769Allan from FallbrookParticipant[quote=clearfund]
FLIPPING IS NOT INVESTING: BE AN INVESTOR, NOT A FLIPPER!!![/quote]Clearfund: However, what you’re advocating isn’t investing, either. Its speculating, pure and simple.
Regardless of your “transaction structure”, you’re still making bets on someone else’s valuation (either the market’s or prevailing wisdom at the time) and that is both volatile and dangerous.
You can tinker with the numbers on either a DCF or FV basis to support your valuation, but isn’t that how we got into this mess in the first place?
Using Vegas as an example, you have no way of actually predicting (with any degree of accuracy) where values will be over your timeline, which is directly opposed to being able to predict (with a fair degree of accuracy) where a company’s fortunes will take them over the same period using simple valuation tools. Hence, the difference between speculation and investment.
January 3, 2010 at 10:33 AM #499160Allan from FallbrookParticipant[quote=clearfund]
FLIPPING IS NOT INVESTING: BE AN INVESTOR, NOT A FLIPPER!!![/quote]Clearfund: However, what you’re advocating isn’t investing, either. Its speculating, pure and simple.
Regardless of your “transaction structure”, you’re still making bets on someone else’s valuation (either the market’s or prevailing wisdom at the time) and that is both volatile and dangerous.
You can tinker with the numbers on either a DCF or FV basis to support your valuation, but isn’t that how we got into this mess in the first place?
Using Vegas as an example, you have no way of actually predicting (with any degree of accuracy) where values will be over your timeline, which is directly opposed to being able to predict (with a fair degree of accuracy) where a company’s fortunes will take them over the same period using simple valuation tools. Hence, the difference between speculation and investment.
January 3, 2010 at 10:33 AM #499252Allan from FallbrookParticipant[quote=clearfund]
FLIPPING IS NOT INVESTING: BE AN INVESTOR, NOT A FLIPPER!!![/quote]Clearfund: However, what you’re advocating isn’t investing, either. Its speculating, pure and simple.
Regardless of your “transaction structure”, you’re still making bets on someone else’s valuation (either the market’s or prevailing wisdom at the time) and that is both volatile and dangerous.
You can tinker with the numbers on either a DCF or FV basis to support your valuation, but isn’t that how we got into this mess in the first place?
Using Vegas as an example, you have no way of actually predicting (with any degree of accuracy) where values will be over your timeline, which is directly opposed to being able to predict (with a fair degree of accuracy) where a company’s fortunes will take them over the same period using simple valuation tools. Hence, the difference between speculation and investment.
January 3, 2010 at 10:33 AM #499498Allan from FallbrookParticipant[quote=clearfund]
FLIPPING IS NOT INVESTING: BE AN INVESTOR, NOT A FLIPPER!!![/quote]Clearfund: However, what you’re advocating isn’t investing, either. Its speculating, pure and simple.
Regardless of your “transaction structure”, you’re still making bets on someone else’s valuation (either the market’s or prevailing wisdom at the time) and that is both volatile and dangerous.
You can tinker with the numbers on either a DCF or FV basis to support your valuation, but isn’t that how we got into this mess in the first place?
Using Vegas as an example, you have no way of actually predicting (with any degree of accuracy) where values will be over your timeline, which is directly opposed to being able to predict (with a fair degree of accuracy) where a company’s fortunes will take them over the same period using simple valuation tools. Hence, the difference between speculation and investment.
January 3, 2010 at 12:08 PM #498663JumbyParticipantAllan, can’t a person purchase a NPN based upon what the unit will rent for? How is that not investing?
January 3, 2010 at 12:08 PM #498814JumbyParticipantAllan, can’t a person purchase a NPN based upon what the unit will rent for? How is that not investing?
January 3, 2010 at 12:08 PM #499205JumbyParticipantAllan, can’t a person purchase a NPN based upon what the unit will rent for? How is that not investing?
January 3, 2010 at 12:08 PM #499297JumbyParticipantAllan, can’t a person purchase a NPN based upon what the unit will rent for? How is that not investing?
January 3, 2010 at 12:08 PM #499543JumbyParticipantAllan, can’t a person purchase a NPN based upon what the unit will rent for? How is that not investing?
January 3, 2010 at 1:56 PM #498697peterbParticipantEcon prof has a point about rents. Since they are far more reliable than valuations, it’s a decent plan B should the valuations take a hit. But you may end-up being an out of state landlord. special kind of hell. But in a market that’s this heavily manipulated, risk is very high.
January 3, 2010 at 1:56 PM #498849peterbParticipantEcon prof has a point about rents. Since they are far more reliable than valuations, it’s a decent plan B should the valuations take a hit. But you may end-up being an out of state landlord. special kind of hell. But in a market that’s this heavily manipulated, risk is very high.
January 3, 2010 at 1:56 PM #499239peterbParticipantEcon prof has a point about rents. Since they are far more reliable than valuations, it’s a decent plan B should the valuations take a hit. But you may end-up being an out of state landlord. special kind of hell. But in a market that’s this heavily manipulated, risk is very high.
January 3, 2010 at 1:56 PM #499331peterbParticipantEcon prof has a point about rents. Since they are far more reliable than valuations, it’s a decent plan B should the valuations take a hit. But you may end-up being an out of state landlord. special kind of hell. But in a market that’s this heavily manipulated, risk is very high.
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