Griff's UT Rental Car Saga

[ChrisoftheNorth]

The people we know are straight up obese, probably bordering on morbidly so. Cruise life makes sense for them, but still can't for the life of me understand how they afford it.

Not owning a house would free up a shit ton of money. I hate owning real estate.

That's assuming you had it. These people are way in the red with no savings or income other than social security. I thought that didn't pay anything, but I guess it's enough to cruise around the world forever when supplementing CCs?

I like owning real estate, but when it's cheap. My house is worth $500k tops and I probably only have ~$150k in it and the mortgage is cheaper than a studio apt rent downtown Traverse City. If I were where you are, I'd feel very differently. I honestly don't even know how people afford it out there. My BIL is buying their 4th condo in Huntington Beach for "just another $800k" to rent month to month. He's our age, spent MILLIONS (this $800k puts them near $4M invested by my counts) buying real estate around the city and I have zero idea where the money comes from. He owns a "business" selling shit on Amazon so he must have some sort of tax or PPP scam going on like your buddy.

And I have to hear about how poor we are and they offer to fly us out to visit all the time because they know we don't make that much. No, we make plenty, we just don't spend that much. $1k to fly to CA to be talked down to and made to feel poor isn't my idea of money well spent. What the fuck.

[max225]

Not owning a house would free up a shit ton of money. I hate owning real estate.

That's assuming you had it. These people are way in the red with no savings or income other than social security. I thought that didn't pay anything, but I guess it's enough to cruise around the world forever when supplementing CCs?

I like owning real estate, but when it's cheap. My house is worth $500k tops and I probably only have ~$150k in it and the mortgage is cheaper than a studio apt rent downtown Traverse City. If I were where you are, I'd feel very differently. I honestly don't even know how people afford it out there. My BIL is buying their 4th condo in Huntington Beach for "just another $800k" to rent month to month. He's our age, spent MILLIONS (this $800k puts them near $4M invested by my counts) buying real estate around the city and I have zero idea where the money comes from. He owns a "business" selling shit on Amazon so he must have some sort of tax or PPP scam going on like your buddy.

And I have to hear about how poor we are and they offer to fly us out to visit all the time because they know we don't make that much. No, we make plenty, we just don't spend that much. $1k to fly to CA to be talked down to and made to feel poor isn't my idea of money well spent. What the fuck.

Yea there are a lot of people heavily “invested” in the RE. Market … almost everyone I know owns multiple housing units as “investments” to rent out to the poors. I hate it, just like I hate used car sales or car sAles in general. I refuse to prey on the poors…

Most rentals don’t make Jack shit post interest taxes repairs and expenses. The only way people “made money” is through that rapid fake appreciation from 2015-22. But that’s come to an end…

Matter of fact if anyone tells me they “invest” in real estate I find them to be on the same level as drug dealers as far as social standing in my book.

/rantout

[ChrisoftheNorth]

That's assuming you had it. These people are way in the red with no savings or income other than social security. I thought that didn't pay anything, but I guess it's enough to cruise around the world forever when supplementing CCs?

I like owning real estate, but when it's cheap. My house is worth $500k tops and I probably only have ~$150k in it and the mortgage is cheaper than a studio apt rent downtown Traverse City. If I were where you are, I'd feel very differently. I honestly don't even know how people afford it out there. My BIL is buying their 4th condo in Huntington Beach for "just another $800k" to rent month to month. He's our age, spent MILLIONS (this $800k puts them near $4M invested by my counts) buying real estate around the city and I have zero idea where the money comes from. He owns a "business" selling shit on Amazon so he must have some sort of tax or PPP scam going on like your buddy.

And I have to hear about how poor we are and they offer to fly us out to visit all the time because they know we don't make that much. No, we make plenty, we just don't spend that much. $1k to fly to CA to be talked down to and made to feel poor isn't my idea of money well spent. What the fuck.

Yea there are a lot of people heavily “invested” in the RE. Market … almost everyone I know owns multiple housing units as “investments” to rent out to the poors. I hate it, just like I hate used car sales or car sAles in general. I refuse to prey on the poors…

Most rentals don’t make Jack shit post interest taxes repairs and expenses. The only way people “made money” is through that rapid fake appreciation from 2015-22. But that’s come to an end…

Matter of fact if anyone tells me they “invest” in real estate I find them to be on the same level as drug dealers as far as social standing in my book.

/rantout

:thankyou:

I see things the exact same way. I've run the math on "investing" in real estate, and I just don't see it at all. Even if you pay cash for something, the cost of taxes, maintenance and insurance make it a break-even venture at best compare to just dumping that money elsewhere. BIL claims it's for the long term so once the mortgages are paid off in 30 years he can just live the easy live, but $4M invested in other ways would probably grow better/faster than real estate, so it's a real head scratcher to me. It's gotta be some small business tax scheme or something like that.

Like you said, these people are just used car salesmen with more money. I can't stand it.

[D Griff]

+1 but these peeps are total rail jobs so apparently they have conquered gluttony

The people we know are straight up obese, probably bordering on morbidly so. Cruise life makes sense for them, but still can't for the life of me understand how they afford it.

I always find it so sad to see morbidly obese people going to town on buffets and stuff and am that they aren't embarrassed to be in that position. I saw some of these huge women from accounting at my office going ham in the dessert room at the company Christmas party last week and it's like, maybe do that shit in secret?

[ChrisoftheNorth]

The people we know are straight up obese, probably bordering on morbidly so. Cruise life makes sense for them, but still can't for the life of me understand how they afford it.

I always find it so sad to see morbidly obese people going to town on buffets and stuff and am that they aren't embarrassed to be in that position. I saw some of these huge women from accounting at my office going ham in the dessert room at the company Christmas party last week and it's like, maybe do that shit in secret?

It takes work and no shame to reach that size. Agreed, it's :digust:

Michele told me the other day that this woman commented on one of her instagram posts with you've lost so much weight what's the secret??!?!

Um, put the fork down.

[D Griff]

That's assuming you had it. These people are way in the red with no savings or income other than social security. I thought that didn't pay anything, but I guess it's enough to cruise around the world forever when supplementing CCs?

I like owning real estate, but when it's cheap. My house is worth $500k tops and I probably only have ~$150k in it and the mortgage is cheaper than a studio apt rent downtown Traverse City. If I were where you are, I'd feel very differently. I honestly don't even know how people afford it out there. My BIL is buying their 4th condo in Huntington Beach for "just another $800k" to rent month to month. He's our age, spent MILLIONS (this $800k puts them near $4M invested by my counts) buying real estate around the city and I have zero idea where the money comes from. He owns a "business" selling shit on Amazon so he must have some sort of tax or PPP scam going on like your buddy.

And I have to hear about how poor we are and they offer to fly us out to visit all the time because they know we don't make that much. No, we make plenty, we just don't spend that much. $1k to fly to CA to be talked down to and made to feel poor isn't my idea of money well spent. What the fuck.

Yea there are a lot of people heavily “invested” in the RE. Market … almost everyone I know owns multiple housing units as “investments” to rent out to the poors. I hate it, just like I hate used car sales or car sAles in general. I refuse to prey on the poors…

Most rentals don’t make Jack shit post interest taxes repairs and expenses. The only way people “made money” is through that rapid fake appreciation from 2015-22. But that’s come to an end…

Matter of fact if anyone tells me they “invest” in real estate I find them to be on the same level as drug dealers as far as social standing in my book.

/rantout

Yes, my realtor buddy (same guy who bought the F30) is all in on the house game and has tried to talk us into rentals on multiple times and he and his wife seemed legit astonished when I told them that I didn't want to get involved because it artificially raises prices and basically fucks over poors. God forbid you give more fucks about trying to make the world an OK place versus making a ton of money.

Funny thing is, much like Chris's bro-in-law, the laughs are up for all of these 'investors'. This dude and his wife bought a mountain house a year ago in peak for like $700K and it's probably worth $400K now, it was the perfect storm, they looked at a couple dozen mountain places, kept getting outbid and the budget kept climbing. Now they're incurring constant maintenance costs, huge headaches with airBNB, and heavily under water on the property.

They also bought a slumlord kinda dumpy rental property in Charlotte in 2020 and I imagine that is now sitting at what they paid at best, all for the beauty of breaking even each month on rent income versus mortgage and having to deal with renting to poor immigrant families who could probably buy the place if all of these dumbasses weren't snatching up any shit hole out there that's under $300K.

The dude has made a millski+ in the past three years slingin' houses though, so they will be fine. His wife is also a mid tier manager at Lowe's corporate and gets paid rather well.

[D Griff]

I always find it so sad to see morbidly obese people going to town on buffets and stuff and am that they aren't embarrassed to be in that position. I saw some of these huge women from accounting at my office going ham in the dessert room at the company Christmas party last week and it's like, maybe do that shit in secret?

It takes work and no shame to reach that size. Agreed, it's :digust:

Michele told me the other day that this woman commented on one of her instagram posts with you've lost so much weight what's the secret??!?!

Um, put the fork down.

This is a HUGE pet peeve for me... 'must be nice to be skinny'. Um, no, I work hard every day exercising and starving myself half the time, so fuck you.

That said, I do enjoy being glutinous at events like that and making people

[Desertbreh]

Apparently extended stays on a cruise are cheap, you pay full tilt on the first week then something like 300/week for each additional week. $1200/month beats rent + food costs. Throw that on a LOC and all the CCs you never pay back and it starts to look pretty cheap.

Yep

[Desertbreh]

The people we know are straight up obese, probably bordering on morbidly so. Cruise life makes sense for them, but still can't for the life of me understand how they afford it.

Not owning a house would free up a shit ton of money. I hate owning real estate.

Yes. They own but Property taxes in MX are negligible, HOAs reasonable, they depart from San Diego and they are dialed in.

[Desertbreh]

+1 but these peeps are total rail jobs so apparently they have conquered gluttony

What’s a “rail job”?

Slimmed down dragster of 50's lore...literally consists of engine, rails, tires and a seat. In human terms "skinny people"

https://www.shazam.com/track/10051041/little-rail-job

[Valkyrie]

It takes work and no shame to reach that size. Agreed, it's :digust:

Michele told me the other day that this woman commented on one of her instagram posts with you've lost so much weight what's the secret??!?!

Um, put the fork down.

This is a HUGE pet peeve for me... 'must be nice to be skinny'. Um, no, I work hard every day exercising and starving myself half the time, so fuck you.

That said, I do enjoy being glutinous at events like that and making people

It's not nice to be this way, it actually sucks being hungry and tired most of the time. Beats being fat

[ChrisoftheNorth]

It takes work and no shame to reach that size. Agreed, it's :digust:

Michele told me the other day that this woman commented on one of her instagram posts with you've lost so much weight what's the secret??!?!

Um, put the fork down.

This is a HUGE pet peeve for me... 'must be nice to be skinny'. Um, no, I work hard every day exercising and starving myself half the time, so fuck you.

That said, I do enjoy being glutinous at events like that and making people

I can't eat nearly as much as I used to, being glutinous for me is a thing of the past. I ate too much for Thanksgiving and felt absolutely horrible. I'm done with that, I'm OK with this.

I also can't drink much of any booze anymore, I feel hung over the next day if I even just drink two drinks the day/night before. It's so strange, but not bad for me, so

[D Griff]

This is a HUGE pet peeve for me... 'must be nice to be skinny'. Um, no, I work hard every day exercising and starving myself half the time, so fuck you.

That said, I do enjoy being glutinous at events like that and making people

I can't eat nearly as much as I used to, being glutinous for me is a thing of the past. I ate too much for Thanksgiving and felt absolutely horrible. I'm done with that, I'm OK with this.

I also can't drink much of any booze anymore, I feel hung over the next day if I even just drink two drinks the day/night before. It's so strange, but not bad for me, so

I had too glasses of wine and a very high ABV beer last night and I was definitely and definitely felt it this morning.

[ChrisoftheNorth]

I can't eat nearly as much as I used to, being glutinous for me is a thing of the past. I ate too much for Thanksgiving and felt absolutely horrible. I'm done with that, I'm OK with this.

I also can't drink much of any booze anymore, I feel hung over the next day if I even just drink two drinks the day/night before. It's so strange, but not bad for me, so

I had too glasses of wine and a very high ABV beer last night and I was definitely and definitely felt it this morning.

My next day would be destroyed from that. It's insane.

High ABV is the worst. One and done or I'm really feeling it.

Two glasses of wine is my max

I can handle liquor a bit more, but even then...2-3 cocktails max.

Getting old I guess.

[D Griff]

I had too glasses of wine and a very high ABV beer last night and I was definitely and definitely felt it this morning.

My next day would be destroyed from that. It's insane.

High ABV is the worst. One and done or I'm really feeling it.

Two glasses of wine is my max

I can handle liquor a bit more, but even then...2-3 cocktails max.

Getting old I guess.

I've been productive and biked to my parent's house to work from here/watch my dad, so all in all no harm done. I'll wind up with 25-30 miles of cycling and a day of work. Still feel it just a little bit

[Valkyrie]

I had too glasses of wine and a very high ABV beer last night and I was definitely and definitely felt it this morning.

My next day would be destroyed from that. It's insane.

High ABV is the worst. One and done or I'm really feeling it.

Two glasses of wine is my max

I can handle liquor a bit more, but even then...2-3 cocktails max.

Getting old I guess.

I'm anymore if it's the case that alcohol doesn't make me feel bad or that I have never actually felt good. I can drink half a bottle of whiskey in an afternoon/evening and feel the same as usual the next day - tired. Skipping the alcohol, adding exercise, and eating better == I feel exactly the same, still just tired all of the time no matter what... so there's no point in being good except for trying to stay skinny.

[D Griff]

My next day would be destroyed from that. It's insane.

High ABV is the worst. One and done or I'm really feeling it.

Two glasses of wine is my max

I can handle liquor a bit more, but even then...2-3 cocktails max.

Getting old I guess.

I'm anymore if it's the case that alcohol doesn't make me feel bad or that I have never actually felt good. I can drink half a bottle of whiskey in an afternoon/evening and feel the same as usual the next day - tired. Skipping the alcohol, adding exercise, and eating better == I feel exactly the same, still just tired all of the time no matter what... so there's no point in being good except for trying to stay skinny.

Oddly enough that's the biggest differentiator for me. I sleep well probably 50% of the time recently with no alcohol. Add in a couple drinks or more and I sleep terribly 95% of those nights.

One trick I recently adopted is to take melatonin when I wake up in the middle of the night instead of at bedtime. I'll sleep from 10 to sometime between 1-3, I used to never be able to fall back asleep, but taking some melatonin at that time seems to be working rather well.

[max225]

I’m @week 3 of no booze. No magical anything is happening … I’m a low key alcy but can quit cold Turkey whenever… at points 30-40 drink equivalents per week got way too much so I decided to cut it out…

Some reds/ipas create the worst hangovers imo. Also all brown liquors… aka anything

One positive is, it’s way easier to get out of bed the next day… and I’m pretty well rested after 6.5 hrs … drinking nights get me in bed for 8-9…

[ChrisoftheNorth]

I drank very rarely this year, replacing it with cannabis. That got out of hand, so I cut that off cold turkey (for the last month and don't miss it) but started drinking a bit more. Last night, had 3 whiskey cocktails over the course of 4 hours and I slept like shit and feel like shit today. Insane low tolerance.

Going to cut booze out too and see what happens. Curious if I still feel like shit like Val mentioned, might just be my normal state.

Dan, good idea on the middle night melatonin. For the last week I've woken up at 3am on the dot wide awake and it takes me forever to fall back to sleep. I'll pop a melatonin tonight to see if that helps.

[D Griff]

I drank very rarely this year, replacing it with cannabis. That got out of hand, so I cut that off cold turkey (for the last month and don't miss it) but started drinking a bit more. Last night, had 3 whiskey cocktails over the course of 4 hours and I slept like shit and feel like shit today. Insane low tolerance.

Going to cut booze out too and see what happens. Curious if I still feel like shit like Val mentioned, might just be my normal state.

Dan, good idea on the middle night melatonin. For the last week I've woken up at 3am on the dot wide awake and it takes me forever to fall back to sleep. I'll pop a melatonin tonight to see if that helps.

It’s some form of insomnia where you can easily fall asleep upon going to bed but it’s very difficult to get back.

[D Griff]

I’m @week 3 of no booze. No magical anything is happening … I’m a low key alcy but can quit cold Turkey whenever… at points 30-40 drink equivalents per week got way too much so I decided to cut it out…

Some reds/ipas create the worst hangovers imo. Also all brown liquors… aka anything

One positive is, it’s way easier to get out of bed the next day… and I’m pretty well rested after 6.5 hrs … drinking nights get me in bed for 8-9…

Pretty much same for me on all accounts. I gave it up for around 100 days earlier this year and felt the same (other than the morning after a drinking night where I don’t sleep well). I also didn’t lose weight or anything. I think alcohol is terrible for the body nonetheless, but it seems to me like for the most part I’d rather live with it than without. I pretty successfully avoid it during the work week.

[Desertbreh]

I’m @week 3 of no booze. No magical anything is happening … I’m a low key alcy but can quit cold Turkey whenever… at points 30-40 drink equivalents per week got way too much so I decided to cut it out…

Some reds/ipas create the worst hangovers imo. Also all brown liquors… aka anything

One positive is, it’s way easier to get out of bed the next day… and I’m pretty well rested after 6.5 hrs … drinking nights get me in bed for 8-9…

[Valkyrie]

It's probably just me, but I fall asleep the easiest and wake up feeling the best when I've had several drinks first. I am dead tired by noon, but I actually feel relatively good in the morning after drinking.

[CaleDeRoo]

It's probably just me, but I fall asleep the easiest and wake up feeling the best when I've had several drinks first. I am dead tired by noon, but I actually feel relatively good in the morning after drinking.

This is very similar to how it goes for me.

Man I'd crush a Pear High Noon right now if I had one.

[Johnny_P]

Glad you didn’t get hosed Griff