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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #50 on: Tue, 17 May 2016, 23:31:16 »
I'd probably try to buy a kosmonavt and then see if I could buy a condo nearer to downtown. Strata fees and property tax seem better than renting.
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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #51 on: Wed, 18 May 2016, 09:55:45 »
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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #52 on: Wed, 18 May 2016, 13:28:30 »
Start a small company that would sell great-looking well-designed hardware. Maybe in kit form catering only to enthusiasts in the beginning.

Start with a counterpart to the MS "Natural" keyboard but with Cherry MX switches -- which there appears to be great demand for but which no major manufacturer has come out with yet.
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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #53 on: Fri, 20 May 2016, 12:14:15 »
I'd like to think that I would invest it wisely but truth be told I'd probably blow through most of it in a year and then be sad.

Edit: A loan from a close and trusted individual who is very, very lenient about the terms of the loan and how you can pay it back. But still a loan.

Knowing me, I would probably not take the loan anyway, or I would take it and simply accelarate some of the expenses I normally need to put money aside for, such as wrapping up my Ph.D., which costs a car's worth of money, or getting books etc. Not sure about investments, including business investments, because I lack the training to properly evaluate them, and I'd rather not be making gambits and risking homelessness due to seizures. One exception: I might be tempted to buy my way into a law firm as a partner and skip the usual path, then catch up quickly behind the scenes (I left the profession early after graduating, so there are gaps in my knowledge, and I don't have a ton of experience).

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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #54 on: Wed, 22 July 2020, 21:00:08 »
I'd build a CNC shop.
You'd be broke in no time, horrible industry.


Start a small company that would sell great-looking well-designed hardware. Maybe in kit form catering only to enthusiasts in the beginning.
Boutique manufacturers usually do it as a side business to something more mainstream because unless you charge a ton, small scale manufacturing is very difficult to make profitable.
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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #55 on: Wed, 22 July 2020, 21:03:21 »
Nowadays I'd probably spend it on making a pilot or short for a series pitch to Netflix or the like.

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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #56 on: Wed, 22 July 2020, 21:09:03 »
$1 mil is not a lot of money, sure you can invest it, but will your investment outrun the payments? Are you sure?

I'd pay it right back.
That or move it around through various numbered bank accounts, while simultaneously changing my name and nationality..
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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #57 on: Thu, 06 August 2020, 00:47:17 »

I'd pay it right back.

Came to say this.

That or move it around through various numbered bank accounts, while simultaneously changing my name and nationality..

Not even sure it's worth the hassle. $1 million isn't what it used to be.


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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #59 on: Thu, 06 August 2020, 17:47:05 »
Charter a private jet with an on-board chef and eat an incredible meal flying as high as a plane will go, then when I'm done and have had my drink and think leap out and kill myself.

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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #60 on: Thu, 06 August 2020, 18:20:34 »
Charter a private jet with an on-board chef and eat an incredible meal flying as high as a plane will go, then when I'm done and have had my drink and think leap out and kill myself.

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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #61 on: Fri, 18 September 2020, 09:26:19 »
Finally invest more into my small business to actually get it off the ground, invest in some property, pay off what debt I have left along with the wife's student debt/loans, and then stash away a chunk for my son's schooling and a trust fund.

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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #62 on: Fri, 18 September 2020, 14:08:56 »
Finally invest more into my small business to actually get it off the ground, invest in some property, pay off what debt I have left along with the wife's student debt/loans, and then stash away a chunk for my son's schooling and a trust fund.

Lies, you'd buy a bunch of 3090s then spend the rest on Stonks.

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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #63 on: Fri, 18 September 2020, 14:18:02 »
well that would be part of getting said business off the ground lol, and I already have my Stonks in Duke Energy and Enbridge Energy (then my precious metals and fine art pieces). 
« Last Edit: Fri, 18 September 2020, 14:20:59 by Darthbaggins »

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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #64 on: Fri, 18 September 2020, 15:11:51 »
well that would be part of getting said business off the ground lol, and I already have my Stonks in Duke Energy and Enbridge Energy (then my precious metals and fine art pieces). 

There is a glut in American energy right now, the mainstreet being down leds to no one buying power.

Recovery is typically slow, because these are not meme stonks,  and of course they're doing literally NOTHING about covid.   Questionable effectiveness of vaccine, already the prevailing conclusion that it will not be a binary event.

It's smart to go long though, and you can certainly do that with Energy.  <but Opportunity cost>

Tp4 is always fearful of 'Murican energy due to the liability of our n00qular fleet, which are all operating beyond or nearly at their designed lifespan.  The NRC is essentially the industry lapdog, not a regulatory agency whatsoever. For example, of recent, they've been handing out safety inspection wavers like candy, DURING a pandemic where there is fewer crew, engineers, more operational friction.

Each reactor site in terms of risk is the equivalent of a 700Billion to 2Trillion liability. Banks / Wallstreet /smart money won't touch n00qular.  So all of these sites are publicly under-written.   That isn't to say a disaster scenario couldn't instantly KO proximal valuations.

Then there's climate change, which greatly increases the likelihood of disaster, reactors have to shut down w/ warming oceans,  Jelly fish clogging the water pipes, wild fires, etc, etc.


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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #65 on: Fri, 18 September 2020, 18:21:55 »
I would decline a loan of 1,000,000   .... unless I thought of something 108% sure to make money..... and be able to pay off the loan very very quickly.. but honestly 2020 being what it is .. I'm well unable to think of what would be a sure enough bet...

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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #66 on: Sun, 20 September 2020, 21:09:31 »
Mech keebs and buy a geniuine smash tv arcade cabinet, and then invest the rest into my education

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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #67 on: Sun, 20 September 2020, 22:29:07 »
Step 1: buy houses
Step 2: transfer title to other person
Step 3: declare bankruptcy
Step 4: ride out 7 years
Step 5: use rent money to buy cocaine, hookers and fund a really ****ty reality tv show that would kinda be like Jersey Shore but an Australian version so it would suck even harder.

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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #68 on: Mon, 21 September 2020, 07:21:39 »
Step 1: buy houses
Step 2: transfer title to other person
Step 3: declare bankruptcy
Step 4: ride out 7 years
Step 5: use rent money to buy cocaine, hookers and fund a really ****ty reality tv show that would kinda be like Jersey Shore but an Australian version so it would suck even harder.

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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #69 on: Mon, 21 September 2020, 08:04:15 »
Since it would be a loan and the future is so uncertain, I would feel compelled to invest it and only withdraw and spend the dividends.

I would use those proceeds to enhance the lives of myself, my family, and my friends. I would also consider donations to worthy non-profit organizations.
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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #70 on: Mon, 21 September 2020, 08:25:21 »
well that would be part of getting said business off the ground lol, and I already have my Stonks in Duke Energy and Enbridge Energy (then my precious metals and fine art pieces). 

There is a glut in American energy right now, the mainstreet being down leds to no one buying power.

Recovery is typically slow, because these are not meme stonks,  and of course they're doing literally NOTHING about covid.   Questionable effectiveness of vaccine, already the prevailing conclusion that it will not be a binary event.

It's smart to go long though, and you can certainly do that with Energy.  <but Opportunity cost>

Tp4 is always fearful of 'Murican energy due to the liability of our n00qular fleet, which are all operating beyond or nearly at their designed lifespan.  The NRC is essentially the industry lapdog, not a regulatory agency whatsoever. For example, of recent, they've been handing out safety inspection wavers like candy, DURING a pandemic where there is fewer crew, engineers, more operational friction.

Each reactor site in terms of risk is the equivalent of a 700Billion to 2Trillion liability. Banks / Wallstreet /smart money won't touch n00qular.  So all of these sites are publicly under-written.   That isn't to say a disaster scenario couldn't instantly KO proximal valuations.

Then there's climate change, which greatly increases the likelihood of disaster, reactors have to shut down w/ warming oceans,  Jelly fish clogging the water pipes, wild fires, etc, etc.



I've had the energy stocks since i was born (Grandma used to work w/ Duke Energy in their corporate offices), I had 2 shares and over the years it has grown to 100.  It is one that I plan on not messing with until absolutely necessary.  I am happy about the Enbridge as they are pushing more for renewable energy more so that Duke has. 

If I didn't have kids I would probably go the route of @fanpeople lol (minus the reality show).  But also fund some grow ops in legal states as well.
« Last Edit: Mon, 21 September 2020, 08:27:42 by Darthbaggins »

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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #71 on: Mon, 21 September 2020, 09:36:45 »
I've had the energy stocks since i was born (Grandma used to work w/ Duke Energy in their corporate offices), I had 2 shares and over the years it has grown to 100.  It is one that I plan on not messing with until absolutely necessary.  I am happy about the Enbridge as they are pushing more for renewable energy more so that Duke has. 

If I didn't have kids I would probably go the route of @fanpeople lol (minus the reality show).  But also fund some grow ops in legal states as well.


Tp4 is sure DB's grandma is a good person.  At 100 shares, DB is not at risk of anything catastrophic.

Point was, if one had $1Mil in Duke,  that's worrying.



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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #72 on: Mon, 21 September 2020, 09:40:05 »
Yeah I'd be shifting w/ that much invested  :thumb:

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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #73 on: Thu, 24 September 2020, 07:17:30 »
Step 1: buy houses
Step 2: transfer title to other person
Step 3: declare bankruptcy
Step 4: ride out 7 years
Step 5: use rent money to buy cocaine, hookers and fund a really ****ty reality tv show that would kinda be like Jersey Shore but an Australian version so it would suck even harder.

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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #74 on: Sun, 10 January 2021, 06:09:31 »
make a small warehouse where i have people unlubing all the drop pandas.
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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #77 on: Sun, 10 January 2021, 21:18:35 »
I'd build a CNC shop.
You'd be broke in no time, horrible industry.
Not if you open one in China.
More so in China.
You have to conquer a language before you start, then figure out how to navigate all the local and international laws and then you have to spin up a business attracting foreigners, which is more difficult that attracting local business. If you can't attract business to your machine shop here how can you expect to do it from overseas?

Your operating costs are lower to be sure, but you're handicapped everywhere else. You also will probably end up paying a lot more for some of your equipment due to import/export laws here and there. I can't imagine what it would cost to import a Haas or if you even could without breaking a few laws.
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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #78 on: Sun, 10 January 2021, 22:04:10 »
Why would you need haas ?  China has machines as good as haas and cheaper.

Maybe not as stable.. buhhh, it's pretty ok.

I'm reasonable sure I saw alot of haas machines there, so.. i don't think import is an issue.

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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #79 on: Sun, 10 January 2021, 23:04:54 »
What are the terms of this loan?

Is it a house mortgage? If so I would pay it off per the schedule, like $5000/month for 30 years or whatever, while enjoying living in the house. If I came across some extra cash I would consider paying off some of the principal earlier to shorten the total span and save a lot of interest.

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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #80 on: Mon, 11 January 2021, 02:48:13 »
1. kill the lender
2. dispose of the body
3. PROFIT!!11111
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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #81 on: Fri, 23 July 2021, 16:14:47 »
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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #82 on: Tue, 27 July 2021, 16:07:33 »
Hey, now I want more gardening tips!
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I say to both bunches, Whether you're a majority or minority, bug off! To hell with anybody who wants to tell me what to write. Their society breaks down into subsections of minorities who then, in effect, burn books by banning them. All this political correctness that's rampant on campuses is b.s.

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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #83 on: Fri, 01 October 2021, 14:14:45 »
Invest $500k
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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #84 on: Mon, 18 October 2021, 10:11:00 »
First thing I'd do is pay off my student loans so I can be 100% debt free.

Then I'd buy a house w/o no mortgage needed so everything else I make with job can sustain my living & w/e I save can go straight into investments or retirement accounts.

That's pretty much my long term goal...but a "small" loan of 1 million will really jumpstart that. lol

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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #85 on: Mon, 18 October 2021, 10:26:46 »
Put $500k all on black. The rest can go into crypto. If I hit red, I run away from my friend.


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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #86 on: Wed, 17 August 2022, 15:57:00 »
Nice trolling ...  :rolleyes:

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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #87 on: Wed, 17 August 2022, 16:34:05 »
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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #88 on: Thu, 18 August 2022, 08:42:56 »
Put $500k all on black. The rest can go into crypto. If I hit red, I run away from my friend.


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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #89 on: Thu, 18 August 2022, 12:30:37 »
This person is straight up gambling.

Crypto itself shouldn't be the issue, it's that crypto is highly volatile (also misleading).
You can do just as good or bad betting on AMC or Gamestop or any other "memestock".  If you want to make money fast these can work for you, but they can also work very much against you. You're not going to earn a 300% return in a month from Apple or Microsoft stock but you're also not going to lose 300% either. Putting half your money on any one thing is bad, putting it on something volatile is just straight up gambling.

As for crypto going bad, that depends on perspective,
Zoom out and it looks more like a market correction, a significant one, but still a market correction. A year and ago there was a spike in prices, in 4 months it went from $10k to $58k and it suck there. Had Bitcoin held relatively steady growth like it had for the decade prior it would closer to $16 or $18k. Regardless, if you bought before the spike you still more than doubled your money if you hung onto it through the spike.

Chart showing the explosive growth, as of this morning.
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If you want stable investment, do your homework look for something stable.
If you want to gamble and make big money, do your homework and run the risk.


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Offline Darthbaggins

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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #90 on: Thu, 18 August 2022, 14:17:40 »
Their post was from a year ago when Crypto was above $40k/BTC. . I knew this was going to happen as it happens in a cycle every few years (has done it since 2012/13).  If you want crypto it's move a small amount into the market now while it is in it's corrective state, I know I bought in when it dipped below $20k a while back when this started.  Anything in the markets is a gamble, since there are bigger players manipulating it constantly.  But $1mill really isn't as much thanks to the market/economy fluctuations that have happened over the past couple of years - sure I'd still love to have it since it would aid in many things for myself & family that would add a bit more cushion for "Rainy Day" or emergency funds.

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Offline Leslieann

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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #91 on: Thu, 18 August 2022, 17:34:35 »
Every time it's hit 60k or thereabout it's crashed.
Didn't expect the Chinese ban or the Iran ban, but meh. Even at 40 though, it was still good deal at the time to buy in so long as you sold before it dropped.

No different than people getting in on Gamestop at $80 or AMC at $30, I would have thought you were crazy but they still went higher before crashing back down some. FOMO* is a hell of a drug. Everyone thinks they missed out by buying or selling too soon or too late.


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Offline CaesarAZealad

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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #92 on: Fri, 19 August 2022, 14:58:11 »
Damn sounds like crypto cope.
One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen, Seventeen, Eighteen, Nineteen, Twenty... Yeah that seems about right.
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Offline Leslieann

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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #93 on: Fri, 19 August 2022, 18:05:00 »
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Offline Darthbaggins

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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #94 on: Mon, 22 August 2022, 11:22:30 »
While me happy I set flags to purchase small amounts when it dipped below $20k the past few months - now to see where it drives to (partially hoping for a $15k dip).


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Offline noisyturtle

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Re: What would you do with a small loan of $1 million?
« Reply #95 on: Mon, 22 August 2022, 16:21:26 »
Honestly I have a pretty great business idea, and it would only cost about $20k to get it started from home. So that's all I need right now -_-

and knowing that is just a pie in the sky dream as well, makes me even more defeated. I was reading an article earlier about some 20 year old that just made 9 figures investing, meanwhile I am approaching 40 and still living paycheck to paycheck. I do hope death's sweet embrace delivers me from this absolute bottom barrel misery of a decade soon. It's like no matter how much effort I put in, or what I do, my life just continues it's decline. It's really insane to watch.