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SP here: I’m on track to make about $600k this year.
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Date: September 20th, 2025 9:31 AM Author: painfully honest friendly grandma center (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49286220) |
Date: September 20th, 2025 9:34 AM Author: beady-eyed senate How do you still have student loans? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49286225) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 9:37 AM Author: Elite office you'd have to be financially illiterate or an ardent follower of dave ramsey's financial advice (same thing) to pay down a 4% loan on an expedited basis. mine are 3.5% and i've never considered paying anything but the minimum. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49286231) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 9:38 AM Author: Excitant lettuce tanning salon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49286237) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 9:41 AM Author: painfully honest friendly grandma center (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49286244) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 9:50 AM Author: Excitant lettuce tanning salon ☝️ proof that you dont need to be intelligent to succeed as a lawyer. just persistent. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49286257) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 9:50 AM Author: painfully honest friendly grandma center Yes. I’ve always said that here. |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 9:53 AM Author: Excitant lettuce tanning salon under no circumstances should you be prepaying 3% loans with tax deductible interest. the risk free rate is near 5% now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49286266) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 9:56 AM Author: painfully honest friendly grandma center (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49286271) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 9:59 AM Author: beady-eyed senate I generally agree with being debt free (paid cash for my car, didn’t take student loans) and I work hard to pay down debt. But as zurich showed I am retarded (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49286277) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 10:01 AM Author: painfully honest friendly grandma center Remind me again who you are? A solo guy, right? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49286283) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 10:02 AM Author: beady-eyed senate Yeah. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49286290) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 10:05 AM Author: painfully honest friendly grandma center So I mean you see my point about having to anticipate bad years right?
I’m more inclined to own my house outright than almost anything else. I have to treat good years as windfalls. Other folks here already know their income trends well enough to more or less bank on repeated performance in subsequent years. I’m not confident that way, although we have some good stuff in the works for 2026 also. |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 10:15 PM Author: glassy old irish cottage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49287941) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 3:43 PM Author: Elite office well, there's something to be said for the relief that being debt free brings you, so i can't hate on paying off all debt, even debt that is free money in real terms. but it does put you in an objectively worse financial situation. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49287016) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 3:50 PM Author: Excitant lettuce tanning salon sure. but then you might as well frame it as paying for a luxury, i.e. doing something suboptimally financially for peace of mind. which is perfectly reasonable, so i shouldnt have said "under no circumstances" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49287035) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 5:10 PM Author: Sinister spruce whorehouse voyeur you can frame it this way, but paying for a luxury that provides you with an actual benefit over the alternative is generally justifiable, especially if that benefit is worth more than the cost not having any debt is a huge boost for most people
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Date: September 20th, 2025 5:14 PM Author: Elite office how does paying off low-interest debt "provide[] you with an actual benefit over the alternative"?
it provides a subjective, not-actual benefit (makes someone feel "at ease"), not an "actual" benefit (which would be the case if it resulted in you having more money in the end, which it doesn't). |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 5:20 PM Author: Sinister spruce whorehouse voyeur so you don't buy any insurance because you are unlikely to receive an "actual" benefit from it? actually, you do buy insurance. same thing. |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 5:31 PM Author: Elite office boy, this is turning out to be another one of your retarded ass subthreads.
how in the FUCK is this analogy apt? insurance is a product. you purchase it on the off chance that something bad happens. the benefit in it is that if a catastrophe befalls you, you are covered.
how on fucking earth is that anything like choosing to pay off a 3% loan rather than pay the minimum on the loan and invest the balance in an S&P fund, which historically returns about 11% a year?
or maybe i'm missing your point. perhaps i need to fall off the top of my house headfirst. |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 5:47 PM Author: Sinister spruce whorehouse voyeur and if you lose your job, durr durr catastrophe!, and you have no debt, you are covered the benefit of insurance is peace of mind. same thing. quit trying so hard to be a little bitch, you little bitch |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 6:00 PM Author: Elite office the benefit of insurance isn't peace of mind, you retard. you are compensated if you get ill or disabled, or your house blows up or blows away like ZZZ's did.
nobody buys insurance to feel good, you dumb fucking retard. it's a product that compensates you if you experience disaster.
that isn't what paying off low-interest debt is. that is just making yourself feel better because you are "debt free." you aren't hedging against anything, you are just about guaranteed to end up in a worse financial position if you do it. (i say "just about," because you could invest the excess money into an asset that loses value - e.g., paying the minimum on your house and putting the difference in an S&P fund starting in April 2000).
how are you this fucking dumb? and jewish? |
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Date: September 21st, 2025 12:12 PM Author: Excitant lettuce tanning salon it's pretty funny to see an arrogant jew that is also really bad at finance. reminds me of the curb episode where larry hires the jew lawyer who sucks at lawyering.
this shit should be baked into sealclubbers dna but he's such a dave ramsey powergoy it's unreal. |
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Date: September 21st, 2025 12:07 PM Author: Excitant lettuce tanning salon you're framing this as if the options are paying down debt or setting the money on fire.
if a catastrophe happened id rather have 100k of debt and 100k in a savings account than zero fucking dollars and no debt. |
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Date: September 21st, 2025 12:13 PM Author: Elite office Don’t you know that all funds you put into an investment vehicle in a taxable account aren’t available to you in case of emergency?
LJL at this guy. My god. |
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Date: September 25th, 2025 10:33 PM Author: Sinister spruce whorehouse voyeur neither option is setting debt on fire you fucking moron (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49303886) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 3:41 PM Author: Elite office crypto and stocks/ETFs. i am aiming at socking away $120k/year in addition to maxing out retirement for the next 5 years or so. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49287015) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 9:55 AM Author: beady-eyed senate Yeah I’m retarded, what’s your point? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49286270) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 12:10 PM Author: Brilliant Fortuitous Meteor Kitchen Spaceporn is mid 50s (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49286565) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 9:41 AM Author: painfully honest friendly grandma center It’s like $4k now that remains to be paid. I’ve paid $200 a month for 23 years now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49286243) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 9:35 AM Author: Elite office definitely not the mortgage or student loans. car payments make sense. how much are left on those?
how do you guys get paid out? draw throughout the year or do they settle the account each month? it sounds like the former. at my current firm, when i make equity i'll be paid out every month (they don't do the holdback thing), but will get assfucked in taxes. the equity partners evidently make you open a "personal" corporation. one of the biglaw firms does this - kirkland maybe? my tax burden at the biglaw firm was 120, so i am not looking forward to that.
what kind of retirement plan do you have?
congrats on the comp. i should make that or hopefully a bit more next year. |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 9:48 AM Author: painfully honest friendly grandma center (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49286256) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 3:46 PM Author: Elite office wait, did the firm restructure or something? what do you mean new partnership?
yea the self-employed retirement account is 180 as fuck. i loved that about biglaw. i lost it when i went back to jackson lewis to be an "income principal" but got it back when i jumped from there. and then i moved again and am back to the ttt 23k 401k contribution until 2027 when i should be equity.
i have right around $1.1m in my 401k, in large part due to the $60k contributions when i was a biglaw partner. |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 4:22 PM Author: painfully honest friendly grandma center Yeah me and three other dudes bought the firm. We share profits at the end of the year based on ownership percentages. We did our usual salary as draws against that anticipated profit over the course of the year as that seemed most sensible. I wanted to pay myself more but instead we put all partners families health insurance on as costs which for me had the net effect of bumping my monthly take home up to match inflation for the year.
You were complaining about how your retirement accounts need work but they all seem pretty well fluffed up already. |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 4:42 PM Author: Elite office 180
yeah, i felt last year that my 401k balance was kind of TTT, but it's damn near doubled in a year. my wife and i have around $2.2m in 401k funds between us. assuming we don't go into a prolonged bear market, that should be more than enough. |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 4:48 PM Author: painfully honest friendly grandma center Yeah by any measure you are better than in good shape I would think.
Buy a condo or something up near Rehoboth beach or something like that? Or a ski unit w resort management. ? Could be fun for family and you wouldn’t be losing anything
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Date: September 20th, 2025 4:54 PM Author: Elite office we've considered buying something in/around ocean city but i dunno. the kids love going there and it would be cool to be able to just pack my shit up and go there for 2-3 weeks in the summer. wife is 100% WFH now, and i never go to the office (although my travel would pose a problem - 2 hrs from airport), but i've always been suspicious of real estate as an investment.
my friend (the guy you looked up to out me, lol) owns a place near rehoboth and just started renting it via air bnb. i'm going to see how that's working out for him. |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 4:57 PM Author: painfully honest friendly grandma center (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49287181) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 9:50 AM Author: hyperactive church building whatever you do, don’t purchase any more young azn boys for your sick sexual fetishes, leave those poor children alone (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49286258) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 9:50 AM Author: irate maniacal brunch goyim How is your crypto/palantir portfolio? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49286261) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 9:53 AM Author: painfully honest friendly grandma center I have $300 worth of bitcoin still in coinbase from when I used to use it to buy weed.
I should probably talk to a financial planner. My investments such as they are are all fucked up. |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 3:51 PM Author: Elite office be careful with that. you might have read, but i figured i'd talk to a financial advisor because my income had grown so much and i figured there "must be something i'm missing out on." guy tried to get me to roll my biglaw 401k over into an annuity, which probably would have wound up returning like 5% a year. i told him to fuck off and fired him. i then put the money in a self directed account and in a year it has gone from $675k to $1.1 million (but $23k of that is additional contributions over the last year).
honestly, if you just put all your money into the vanguard all us stock or global stock index, or VOO (S&P index) you will do very well. |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 4:18 PM Author: painfully honest friendly grandma center Thanks for that. The big Vanguard dump sounds credited and would probably fit this time next year if we can come close to repeating this years results then too which is likely. First things first clear out the debt is my thought. That will give me more flexibility each month to save etc. plus I mean I’m going to take out some ratty little loan against the house just so a bank can manage my insurance and property taxes on the house instead of me. |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 10:13 PM Author: Elite office you should pick a number - 10, 15% of your gross income and commit to putting that away each month. put the rest toward the debt if you want to pay that off. once you pay it off, up the investments.
i put my money into the following ETFs, splitting among them roughly equally:
VOO (vanguard's S&P index) SCHD (schwab dividend fund - probably best in a tax-sheltered account) VGT (vanguard's tech ETF) SMH (semiconductor ETF) SCHG (schwab's growth stocks - lots of non-tech growth companies)
but honestly you could just do VOO and nothing else because that's probably nearly impossible to beat.
i'd also put some money into bitcoin, like $500 a month or something. |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 10:31 PM Author: painfully honest friendly grandma center good useful thanks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49287957) |
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Date: September 25th, 2025 10:43 PM Author: bright swashbuckling stage scourge upon the earth If you prepay a 3% mortgage you are beyond retarded (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49303906) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 12:12 PM Author: onyx unhinged ladyboy indian lodge GJ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49286568) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 12:16 PM Author: Multi-colored idea he suggested death wish "What should I do with the balance? Hookers and blow? Thanks."
your kallman weiner is 1.5 inches erect, you cant "do" hookers
whatever you do, don't buy more mail order children to molest |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 5:37 PM Author: Ruby heaven black woman stop raping children you sick fuck (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49287240) |
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Date: September 25th, 2025 9:26 PM Author: Curious turquoise parlor karate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49303699) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 5:51 PM Author: ocher concupiscible patrolman stead Shitlaw non-equity special counsel makes 600k? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49287266) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 7:37 PM Author: Elite office He said above he and a couple other guys bought the firm. Pretty 180 outcome tbh. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49287415) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 7:38 PM Author: painfully honest friendly grandma center TY I'm not a complete idiot all the time or alternatively its better to be lucky than smart (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49287418) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 7:40 PM Author: contagious mustard school haunted graveyard Nah you're a confirmed dumbass (several times over) and $600k isn't impressive. But no amount of $ will ever change the fact that you're an unmitigated piece of shit with 0 morals or self awareness. Enjoy! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49287427) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 7:41 PM Author: painfully honest friendly grandma center csb
https://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5778121&mc=2&forum_id=2
Even Kenny isn’t dumb enough to have posted that sophomore stuff above |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 10:49 PM Author: Elite office Guys at my high school made over $600k all the time, it was nbd (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49288002) |
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Date: September 20th, 2025 10:51 PM Author: painfully honest friendly grandma center thanks yeah i think that poster is some kind of college kid or BP or one of his neet ilk (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49288014) |
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Date: September 25th, 2025 9:26 PM Author: Curious turquoise parlor karate also 0 functioning testicles or kids. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49303701) |
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Date: September 21st, 2025 1:34 PM Author: Elite office i had to come back to ITT and take this issue out of the above subthread.
sealcubber, let's do a little hypo. let's say you have a guy with a $1500 monthly mortgage payment and the rate is pretty low - say 3.5 or 4%. let's consider two scenarios.
scenario 1-
i decide i really don't like carrying debt and am going to double my monthly payment, which represents all of my disposable income. so i am paying $3k/mo and not saving anything. but the upside is my house is paid off in 10 years, not 30.
scenario 2-
i make the minimum payment and have $1500/mo left over. i either put it in VOO or a high-interest savings account at 5%.
now let's fast forward 8 years later. i am laid off from my job. if i'm scenario 1 guy, i have been aggressively paying down debt and i'm almost there, but i still have a fairly large amount of debt in the house. plus i have a $1500 mortgage payment due in a few weeks and no savings. fuck. i was SO CLOSE to paying the house off but i wasn't able to do so before i got laid off and my mortgage is still due. is craigslist still around? maybe i can sell my holds.
if i'm scenario 2 guy i have $175,000 or so if i did the high interest rate savings acct or about $260,000 if i threw that money into VOO. i have a $1500 mortgage payment due in a few weeks. this really sucks, but thank god i have assets i can tap. my holds are safe (unless i want them not to be haha)
which one is in a better position? or am i misunderstanding your HURR DURR ZURICH IS DUMB WHAT IF U LOSE UR JERB poast above? if i misread you, pls explain.
as a sidenote, can you tell us where and how you invest your money? lmao. |
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Date: September 25th, 2025 10:38 PM Author: bright swashbuckling stage scourge upon the earth It’s crazy how people don’t understand this and listen to Dave Ramsey (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49303901) |
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Date: September 25th, 2025 10:40 PM Author: Elite office It’s not brain surgery or anything.
That said, some people are morons who cannot be trusted with debt. For them, Dave Ramseys advice is good. |
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Date: September 25th, 2025 10:45 PM Author: bright swashbuckling stage scourge upon the earth The power of compounding interest is completely lost on a certain subset of the human population. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49303908) |
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Date: September 25th, 2025 10:46 PM Author: Sinister spruce whorehouse voyeur you are, of course, misunderstanding my position because you are a fucking moron. your hypo above is a guaranteed rate of 5% vs a mortgage of less the hypo way up thread was not that, you fucking putz. you seemed to think that investing in the market was a guaranteed rate of return of durr durr way more than the mortgage debt you really are too stupid for me, but i'll play along try again, fucktwit |
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Date: September 25th, 2025 10:50 PM Author: bright swashbuckling stage scourge upon the earth You seem legit retarded (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49303916) |
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Date: September 25th, 2025 10:58 PM Author: Sinister spruce whorehouse voyeur great post, faggot. please keep changing moniker to avoid any accountability for your idiocy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49303937) |
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Date: September 25th, 2025 11:02 PM Author: bright swashbuckling stage scourge upon the earth Keep listening to Dave Ramsey faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49303951) |
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Date: September 25th, 2025 1:41 PM Author: beady-eyed senate UPDATE: SP is now on track to make One Million Dollars.
Date: September 24th, 2025 9:33 PM Author: Pajeet Singh
Income about a million this is SP
Should I just leave a lot in the firm?
http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5779690&forum_id=2#49299970 |
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Date: September 25th, 2025 9:24 PM Author: painfully honest friendly grandma center Yep. $920k 950k like that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49303695) |
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Date: September 25th, 2025 10:51 PM Author: irate maniacal brunch goyim BANGARANG (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777923&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310751#49303917) |