If you had 1 million USA dollars to invest
 

If you had 1 million USA dollars to invest in the internet, what would you do with it?

If you city is like mine, rental houses last about 15 seconds from when they hit the market. I would buy a couple of houses that needed a bit of work (so you can get a good deal), have them fixed up to the point they are nice enough for some mom/wife to say she would like to live there, and then rent them out. This would give you a constant stream of income being as the houses are paid for.

If you buy 3 houses for a total of about ($150,000 each) $450,000, and rent them for $1000 a month each, you have a monthly income of $3000 for the rest of your life (or whatever that would go for in your city). In about 12 years, your investment will have paid for itself, and assuming 3% inflation, would be worth about $650,000 - a $200,000 profit.

Flow

Oh yeah, then I would have a broker invest the rest of it for me. Not all in one place. I would take some risks but I would have some low risk stuff too.

Diversification in the key!

Flow

invest in whatever made you the 1st mill.... anything less would be uncivilized! (dunno, it sounded good at the time)

I have an investment that would return your money in under 2 years. Sucks because I don't have a million to drop into it.

Buy a nice piece of Net real estate.

Buy land.

not invest it on the internet

Real Estate, and S&P 500.

:1orglaugh

I wish everyone saying real estate lived near me. I could blow your mind with what we are getting into.

Buy my content.

Invest in our 3 people adult entertainment company from europe
for like 100.000 dollar and get a piece of the profit when we are one of the biggest european adult companies....

Just a Idea...
The Big Story is availble when you are really interessted...

have a nice weekend...

hehe good scarface pic :)

I would put some of it in my non-adult company, take a nice long vacation, pay off my mortgage and then invest the remainder is something low risk. I would just love to be mortgage free. As it stands now I will probably be dead before I pay this thing off.

Mortgages are great! How else can you invest in a $300,000 opportunity for $60,000?

More specifically, how else can you take a 5% appreciating house and make 25% off it?

It's like buying low risk stock on margin and amplifying the returns. Plus the interest is tax free!

And just so you know, you ALMOST NEVER want to be mortgage free. As long as you have air left in your lungs, you should be continuously refinancing that (those) house(s) and continuously cashing out on the appreciation and reinvesting it.

But what do I know?

this thread rocks :)

Do you need a business plan or something? :)
I'd invest it into the Eastern European countries with their rapidly growing markets. Escpeccially after they join EU their real estate would jump up by around 30%. What do you think? 30% in 6 months.

probably with stock

I would ask you to advise me how to do porn content because I always wanted to work with sexy bitches.:winkwink:

In some countries possible do it over 15-20% per year if you work with estates and land. Cyprus - for example :)

buy mensniche.com off me , in fact , its worth more.

My question was for investing in the internet direct. I.e., websites, software or equipment.

if i had a mil, i'd start a hedge fund

I would pay the rest of my morgage off.:Graucho

OK. I would think about producing my own exclusive content and own server. But I´m afraid there will be to think about qualified traffic, too.

Buying a website doesn´t make much sense when the name is not popular and known by many users. Success doesn´t depend on the website or the name, I suppose. When I was starting my first website in Europe, that one was very ugly and not professionell done at all. But the users liked the amateur story of two girls which were running the site to earn some money for their college fees.

So I think the best investment will be doing exclusive content and running own servers. It´s just my opinion and of course not scientifically examined.

Either a good domain or a good and profitable web business that can run automatically with little or no manual work.

PorkBellies.com

porn anything else would be uncivilized

The obvious - you have never had a tenant.

Don't pay the rent.
Trash the place
You left out - cost of maintaing the $150K dump.

Oh, Did your CFP tell you realestate is gonna shoot craps after the election as property is over valued

Like I always say - look for the bright side

Me, Content and lottery tickets, a million just isn't enough.

With one MILLion dollarsss.....


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I would buy a suit like this.

KRL's Brain..
:Graucho

PUT IT ALL IN NORTEL STOCKS!! LOL

Liar!

Cheers,
Matt

I like that!

Or the best damn hooker this country has to offer!

I on the other hand, have. And do. I won't wholely disagree with you, those things you mentioned can happen, no question. But there are ways of preventing it or minimizing the likelyhood of it happening.

For starters, buy rental property in locations that would be conducive to better living, in half-decent neighbourhoods close to a hospital and within range of schools, and a supermarket.

Advertise widely for a tenant. Meet each applicant and give them the usual tour, then select the best ones and sCREEN them. The mistake most people make is they accept the first schmuck that comes along waiving cash. Duh. Of course they will trash the place.

Check with their last landlord as to their behaviour. Check their references.

Get post-dated cheques for 12 months in advance.

Instruct the applicant before-hand on the rules you have. Print out those rules and get them to sign an agreement. Hey, it's something.


I've been a landlord for 8 years now and have never had to kick anyone out or had the kind of problem you described above. Using a million bucks to buy some rental property isn't all that bad an idea in my view.

stocks & real estate

Id buy some really nice pots and pans

a certificate of deposit can you say retire!

Probably not.
But hey, we are adult webmasters.
You can invest $1M far better here, if you know what you are doing and have the righ guys work with you.
Just create the new collegefuckfest.com :Graucho

With a million bucks I would start a local business and create a few jobs.

I'd make a pretty pimp apartment complex near a college campus.

i still haven't recieved your detailed 'proposal'...

Krispy Kreme definitely.

Open a whore house and stick live cams in it!! :thumbsup

Buy traffic!

IF I had to spend it for online stuff, I would outfit a bomb ass photo studio and webcam area, and expand my operations massively!

I would never (well maybe one day) invest that much on the internet. I would put it down as a 20% downpayment on a small building and have management rent it out for me.

Diversification is the key..

real estate, mutual funds, liquid cash and stocks