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Wow I love watching how these things become a beast all their own! Good posting everyone - esp tfb for persevering with your points. Sometimes u have a blunt way of saying things that gets people upity but thats fun on these forums ;) Agree boomers may cause serious distortions in...

Agree tfb that buying low and selling high is just long term trading - and not investment in the truest sense. Re: winwin For me where the rubber hits the road is how I treat the people I am directly effecting. So I dont like kicking out tenants just to renno - would prefer to buy a prop...

sounds like you have a real problem with the ethics of r/e investing. How do you sleep at night? Or ar you just playing devils advocate?

tfb this is a really interesting issue - and I think it is an ethical question we should all think about, including people of faith but no only them. Most investers, even the nonreligious ones wouldn't like to think of themselves as cold darwinists. Some extra ponderings on the topic of...

Thanks for all replies - dale I agree nothing worse than hypercritical religious types, if you they going to bother on sunday then why not live it for the rest of the week, coz who are they kidding? Geoff I grew up with the same feeling of certain types of money (white collar degree based...

thanks salsa - interesting experience and theory wishga - good post I think even though people get all upity when the R word is mentioned I dont know why some people cant mellow out and share experiences. The whole forum is based on the idea that we will all do our own thing, express...

I wouldn't want to see general religious discussion here either - I was asking about people's thoughts on how their faith/religion/spirituality effects their investing. Is that more relevant to this forum rix? I am not here to debate the pros and cons of different faiths etc. Just to hear if...

so the more money a deal has in it the more spiritual it is!

salsa - does that mean you are thinking there may be some sort of karmic thing with your deals? The universe(or God/whatever word you use) is rewarding you for win-win situations? Is it just a couple of experiences or have you developed a theory on it? rixter - why would you want to stop...

I was reading the "How on earth do you sleep at night post and came across a post from Brenda that fascinated me but was largely ignored: Firstly thanks brenda for putting your view out there. I thought it would be interesting to hear what other people think about faith and finances? I am...