How would you invest $300,000?

[SMOGZINN]

Originally posted by: Duddy
Would you start a small business? Buy a franchise? Invest in the markets? FOREX?

Gimme some ideas/ Also, if you have any good investing resources feel free to pass them along.

I would start by buying a really nice, really big, really heavy bed and then put the rest of the money under it. Perhaps when Obama opens Cuba up to tourism I would invest in some land or hotel/resort over there. If their government has even half a brain it is going to once again become the vacation hotspot it was in the late 20's early 30's.

 

[K1052]

I'd pay off the house and dump the remaining 100K into index funds. I'm 27 so I have no worries about waiting out the recovery.

 

[Chunkee]

porn industry start up? Duddy's Cream Pie Productions?

 

[maddogchen]

$300,000? Thats my downpayment on a good home in the Silicon Valley, California

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: Duddy

Originally posted by: Farang
PM me, I have some good opportunities for you

srlsy?

A fool and his money...


:laugh:

were lucky enough to be together in the first place.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Lotus Elise
Pay off mortgage and all other debt
Ducati Monster 1100 S

 

[racolvin]

I'd pay off my house and put the rest (~150k) in an index fun for the next 20 yrs

 

[finite automaton]

Originally posted by: jjsole

Originally posted by: finite automaton
I;d put 200k towards retirement, and 100k towards a car.

haha, that doesn't leave much for upkeep or insurance for a 100k car.......

That's what the job is for.

 

[Brutus04]

real estate

 

[edro]

GE Stock

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: FetusCakeMix
Build a smallish rendering plant (with $20,000), or get a little independent computer store off the ground. Building, repairing, etc, etc.

Eew!

$280k would have to go towards paying off the NIMBYs in the neighborhood.

 

[Sensai]

put it all in GGP stock... watch that 300K go to a million+ in a month, few million in a couple years, or slim chances falling to 0.

 

[alkemyst]

300,000 $2 scratch offs :beer::beer:

 

[TheSlamma]

Sell my place in COLDorado, combine the money and buy a place in a warm location I can SCUBA dive at and be able to see more then 2 feet.

 

[PepePeru]

definitely real estate.

slumlord ftw.

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: finite automaton

Originally posted by: jjsole

Originally posted by: finite automaton
I;d put 200k towards retirement, and 100k towards a car.

haha, that doesn't leave much for upkeep or insurance for a 100k car.......

That's what the job is for.

Easy for you to say...welfare for my 14 kids doesn't stretch like it use to.

 

[Crono]

I would use it to open up a computer and electronics store. One that would carry rows and rows of computer parts at fair prices, would have a section for PC and console gaming (with gaming rigs and console setups, with free weekly and monthly tournaments w/prizes) and a small section for junk food, host free classes on computer training (From basic to advanced skills), offer repair at fair prices, and just be overall awesome.

I'm not saying it would make a profit (probably wouldn't), but that would be like a dream investment for me.

 

[edro]

1. Buy 30 $10k houses in Detroit.
2. Wait for Detroit to make Top 100 places to live list.
3. Profit.

 

[Drako]

Originally posted by: G Wizard
definitely real estate.

slumlord ftw.

This - buy some investment property. It's a buyer's market almost everywhere now.

 

[eplebnista]

I'd need a bigger mattress.

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: eplebnista
I'd need a bigger mattress.

With enough room for all of ATOT?

Slumber party at your house!

*throws pillow at eplebnista like a little girl*

 

[eplebnista]

Originally posted by: Crono

Originally posted by: eplebnista
I'd need a bigger mattress.

With enough room for all of ATOT?

Slumber party at your house!

*throws pillow at eplebnista like a little girl*

I was trying to paraphrase the Jaws line about a bigger boat, but didn't think of the possible misinterpretations.

 

[habib89]

invest 100k-150k in.. soemthing, anything... dodge cox or something... then pay off debt and put a nice sizeable down payment on a house. you wanna give me $300k?

 

[StageLeft]

150,000 shares of GM, it's about to burst wide open and go back to $10 by the end of next week.

 

[Oyeve]

Pay off debt, then hos and blow.