Oh, and open up several large trailer parks in this shithole of a town....seriously.

$50 million...

Edit: Damn..... I missed it. Again. Oh well.

I would do the following:

Pay off my medical bills,
Give money to my mother so she can retire early,
Buy me a new car,
Buy me a house,
Start a publishing company with books, comics and magazines
Travel to Ireland,
Help my family and friends with their money problems,
Invest in stocks & bonds,
Give to charity.

Shop, invest.

I got some plans that would work better with a million in my pocket

one million dollars...
if you didn't make it all dollar by dollar, you'll probably lose a lot of it quickly over the years by not having enough money experience to handle it :)

about investing - easier said then done, investing is a business, if you aren't good in business, you won't do well in investing.
about starting up franchises - lots of work

What I would do with an extra mil,
save 100k for investing in my current business only when the 100k goes in will come back with a 100-500% ROI,
the rest will stay in the bank waiting for the right time and the right place to pounce.
10% of your investment always makes 90% of the income in my experience.
until you have a business or sure opportunity where you can funnel 100% of your investment into that 10%, then you have the ultimate playing field.

investing is much different than starting a business.

Pay all my bills off.. make sure my family was not "needing" for anything ..invest some so I dont have to work again and travel and enjoy my hobbies..

Pay of all debts/bills... expand business.

Damn...that won't happen ever so i won't waste my time thinking about that :(

what's your paypal addy?

go to south america buy a bunch of coke and turn that million into 50 milion

Id open up a fast food franchise or 2. Ive never seen a mcdonalds or dunkin donuts close down in my life. Of course im in Boston and we have a dunkin donuts on every corner.

I live across from an industrial park and have been day dreaming about opening up a fast food place in the middle of all those businesses. It would clean up.

Invest and make more.

probably some interest earning asset, such as bonds until the right opportunity came along.

I am patient.

I would look at buying either a whole apartment building or several floors of one in either Budapest or Praque... both countries about to join the EU

Yell at the person.
I would make in clear that they better hand it to be in a more respectfull way next time.
:321GFY

Its about time you hit me up on ICQ,

lets talk!

Invest in Apt. complex rental units & a restaurant(s).

After i got done busting a nut, i'd make sure all of my bills got payed and what not, and start developing the ideas i've been poking around for investors for, put what i didn't need in the bank (a very large portion), and be a happy fuckin camper :thumbsup

Move back to Canada, put it in the bank, live off the interest. When the exchange gets better pull it into CDN funds and invest in real estate.

I'd go to the bank and get all the cash !!

If you didnt atleast buy a sick car with part of it, id drive over to your new house and hit you.

no doubt. WG, it's about time you hooked up with an M3.

:glugglug

I have a sick red M3, I just park it in Burlington :)
WG

LOL
why is the ownership in my name then?

Insurance reasons :)
WG

Get your own!!! If you do, I'll make you dinner again...

Invest 100% of it.

I'd party it away as fast as I could

Can't take it with you

Donate it all to get Bush elected

I'd put it in the bank, leave it for a while and get some advice on how best to spend it. $1,000,000 is nowhere near enough to live on for the rest of your life.

Invest in real estate and travel to few places i've been wanting to see.

While I haven't read past the first page, it's nice to see someone around here with enough confidence in their current ventures to not simply dump the lot and buy an apartment building...

:winkwink:

I'd invest $100k in $500k worth of real estate. I'd invest $200k in my online businesses and startups. I'd put $300k into a mutual fund with at least 12% annual return over the past 15 years. I would spend the remaining $400k into starting a business with the intentions of selling for a few million in a couple years.

I know exactly what I would do. I would invest in third world countries, buy land over there. Countries like Morocco, Greece, Italy, you can pick up some ocean front land extremely cheap. My father had the chance back in the 70's to buy some land and at the time he just wasnt sure if he had the extra money to throw down and thought he would play it safe. If he would have bought that land it would have been worth over 20million dollars now. He could have bought it for pennies, seriously.

Alot of countries have rapidly growing metropolitan areas. People in third world countries love western civilisation like McDonalds, Huge fitness facialities like Bally's, etc. People who take the time to study the culture and make the right connections to be able to open up businesses like that make a killing, you could make that million back in the first month.

But there's no rush and im only 21.. by the time im 30 I'll have my one meeeeilion to invest in poor countries.

first thing i would do is move

Tempting...
WG