Investing

On the gambling spectrum, I’d put our lives on one end, while betting on whether a coin lands on heads or tails on the other. Pretty much everything in our lives is a bet, with the only difference being the…

“When will our table be ready?” I asked. “We’re waiting for a party to finish up. It shouldn’t take more than another thirty minutes,” the hostess replied. I looked at her surprised, “Thirty minutes more minutes? Our reservations were for…

In the early 1960s, flying from the US to Japan was a big deal. Japan Airlines had just started making transpolar flights the previous year with tickets being hard to come by and extremely expensive.  Traveling outside of the US…

We recently invested in a property with a ridiculously low price per square meter. M2 is what ‘price per square meter’ is usually referred as. You’ll find this measurement system pretty much everywhere, except for the United States. Property values…

I received a pitch deck last week from a contact I’ve spent quite a bit of personal time with. The deck is hideous. All black and white, no fancy graphics, and nothing that is visually stimulating. Furthermore, there isn’t even…

Last week we offered a new investment in a company that we have already invested in. So, this will be the second time investing in this company and this time we’re deploying even more capital at a higher valuation.  (This…

“Aren’t you afraid that you’ll lose your property?”  That’s the number one thing I hear once people find out about our international property investments. This makes sense, as most people associate upside opportunities when it comes to topics they know…

“By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.” – Paul Krugman, 1998 Ironically, the Internet is now full of these kinds of quotes, which highlight…

Practice what you preach… right? Many real estate investors, who derive the majority of their income from the actual properties that they own,  don’t own the home that they live in. Seems weird that someone who invests in real estate…

Most quotes about hindsight are pretty stupid. Trust me, I just spent the past twenty minutes searching for a witty saying from some famous person about hindsight. I found a bunch of quotes from authors, politicians, investors, and celebrities where…