Instead of saying property investment, just say you're doing property management. It's the truth.
Do you tell people you're a property investor?
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Instead of saying property investment, just say you're doing property management. It's the truth.
Just a question.
Who exactly do you want to take you seriously?
I'm assuming you are working on personal investments here, so you don't actually have any customers or clients you have to impress.
Whether you invest full time, part time or in your spare time, if people are going to take you seriously or not depends on them, not you.
I spend a lot of time in community commitments. So I guess when I say take me seriously, I mean stop asking me to do other things, I'm committing myself to my investments for a while.
I think this thread has made me realise, who cares what others think, it's my business and i never need to explain myself to anyone. If I want to spend more time at home on investing I can either say so and not worry what others think or I can tell them I want to read more
I think this thread has made me realise, who cares what others think, it's my business and i never need to explain myself to anyone. If I want to spend more time at home on investing I can either say so and not worry what others think or I can tell them I want to read more
If it's free community work you've been offering, no reason should be required - just say you'll be busy on such and such days - they'll soon stop asking.
In your case it sound like it should be more of a 'learning to say NO' concern, rather than a, how do I tell them I'm going to be a busy full time property investor and have them take me seriously (they'll think is BS -not serious/fanciful- unless you're already living in a 1M+ house and driving a luxury BMW, in which case they'll think you're a greedy investor who should be giving something back to the community
).And if you are driving a BMW, this could be an issue...
http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2011/12/22/bmw-link-to-erectile-dysfunction/
http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2011/12/22/bmw-link-to-erectile-dysfunction/
I spend a lot of time in community commitments. So I guess when I say take me seriously, I mean stop asking me to do other things, I'm committing myself to my investments for a while.
I think this thread has made me realise, who cares what others think, it's my business and i never need to explain myself to anyone. If I want to spend more time at home on investing I can either say so and not worry what others think or I can tell them I want to read more
Count yourself lucky, you have friends who like you enough that they want your company, bettter than being lonely. You also have the choice of hanging with them all the time or doing something else. Best of both worlds.
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And if you are driving a BMW, this could be an issue...
http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2011/12/22/bmw-link-to-erectile-dysfunction/
Doing a thorough research on a new cars there wylie
.The guy next door has just purchased a BMW, and they're trying for a baby...
.Oh thanks Jaycee, that is rather true. These really are people who I need to tell the truth too and like weg said, it's more about saying no, than anything else. I'm saying no to activities I've been very committed to, to focus on something personal I'm committed too. I've just felt uncomfortable telling the truth, which I just need to get over
Just tell them you are in the online porn industry and it is a burgeoning sector. This tends to shut down most conversations about what you do and where your money comes from.
I tell them:
- I work for the government
- I make boots...concrete boots
- I'm in the waste management biz, human waste
- I invented the internet
- I'm president of BHP/ANZ/NBC/Newscorp/PBL etc followed by "have you heard of them?"
Great site!!!!
- I work for the government
- I make boots...concrete boots
- I'm in the waste management biz, human waste
- I invented the internet
- I'm president of BHP/ANZ/NBC/Newscorp/PBL etc followed by "have you heard of them?"
And if you are driving a BMW, this could be an issue...
http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2011/12/22/bmw-link-to-erectile-dysfunction/
Great site!!!!
I have the opposite going on. I want to go back to work but I don't know if I should explain I've been part-time managing properties for the past 7 years. I've kept up my typing speed by visiting somersoft
and have kept up my spreadsheet skills. I guess it's probably easier to say I've been sitting around have cups of tea talking about raising kids every day. 
I used to think that I was a property investor, until API started putting stories of people with like.., 20 million dollar portfolios every month, now I just feel like a normal person with 4x properties worth a tadd under $2M. Hell I know of a single guy who lives in a $1.6 mil apartment in Sydney..! So that kinda' crushes my sprits a little.
It seems so little but in the long run it will take us far. I can't take on any more debt at this stage so that makes me feel a bit down, but it'll all happen eventually. I think that within 5-10 years we should be financially 'free' but we would want more. At that stage, we may 'have' more debt than we used to though so who knows.. Either way we don't want to have to work by then, and we 'should' be right. It's not a certainty, but it could also go either way and we could possibly have more than we expected by that stage.
So anyway: I don't really think that highly of our efforts these days so it's no big deal to talk about. Even though it's been a hard slog, and we work hard every day to create this life for ourselves, scrimping on some things so that one day we will be free of work.
It seems so little but in the long run it will take us far. I can't take on any more debt at this stage so that makes me feel a bit down, but it'll all happen eventually. I think that within 5-10 years we should be financially 'free' but we would want more. At that stage, we may 'have' more debt than we used to though so who knows.. Either way we don't want to have to work by then, and we 'should' be right. It's not a certainty, but it could also go either way and we could possibly have more than we expected by that stage.
So anyway: I don't really think that highly of our efforts these days so it's no big deal to talk about. Even though it's been a hard slog, and we work hard every day to create this life for ourselves, scrimping on some things so that one day we will be free of work.
Lawyers are always cutting people down.
The ones I know go out on a limb to help, with the exception being when they're branching out.
