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You inherit 100k. Name one thing you would invest it in and one you would avoid

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,092 ✭✭✭catbear


    Healthcare providers, especially obesity treatment, it's a growth industry.....

    Social media is a bubble.

    Housing rebound has been driven by cash buyer who held off after the credit fueled bubble burst. The new lending restrictions haven't been felt on the market so I say avoid.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 140 ✭✭Tedddy


    Build a metropolis in Leitrim.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 654 ✭✭✭Gerry Rio


    catbear wrote: »

    Social media is a bubble.

    Dont think a bubble is supposed to last ten years already with maybe another five left in the tank. Maybe more.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,082 ✭✭✭sheesh


    Farm land: Stable price and lease it out to a local farmer per year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53 ✭✭Vlad Dog Putin


    Donbass, big construction need after war.
    Avoid stock market, ponzi.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,360 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    Right now, I'd buy a few thousand worth in dollars. It seems like the euro is getting dragged down. The dollar is going from strength to strength with America becoming more self sufficient for oil. I'd cash in very quick though, once it gets on parity. Actually, the euro might not get weak enough to make only a few k worth the investment.

    Just buy beanie babies


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,883 ✭✭✭Tzardine


    100k on black.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Where do you think the data is stored on the cloud?

    I hate the term cloud. It means a thousand different things.


    I prefer the original cloud.

    "a visible mass of condensed watery vapour floating in the atmosphere, typically high above the general level of the ground"


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 654 ✭✭✭Gerry Rio


    Tzardine wrote: »
    100k on black.


    No, 50k on black and 50k on red ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    Gerry Rio wrote: »
    Dont think a bubble is supposed to last ten years already with maybe another five left in the tank. Maybe more.

    It's a bubble as in a fad. Facebook is other people's boring holiday snaps. It was very cutting edge in the 1970s to bore other people with your home movies. Until Terry and June started ripping the piss out of it.
    Most people with anything of interest to share choose not to share it with online randomers.
    Property is an option but it requires maintenance. Dodgy tenants, water charges ?, property tax....the list of headaches is endless with investment property.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,513 ✭✭✭whupdedo


    Incressed by 40% in dublin. In any case 2008 wasn't a normal price we are heading back to.

    Give it time


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,244 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I would definitely invest in my body: fitness, teeth, eye surgery.

    Definite no: motor vehicles.

    Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

    — Grover Cleveland



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,154 ✭✭✭orchidsrpretty


    Gerry Rio wrote: »
    No, 50k on black and 50k on red ;)
    * dealers voice * zero - fml i hear you say


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,336 ✭✭✭Saganist


    The old reliables. Gold & Silver.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    I'd invest in some kind of hipster café type thing. Like a café that doesn't sell coffee or has no chairs or the chairs are on the ceiling or something.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,883 ✭✭✭Tzardine


    I think actually if I came into 100k I would probably spend 99,000 on booze, strippers and motorbikes.

    I would probably waste the rest.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    Vending machines, licenced moneylending,klavkalash carts


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    prize bonds and pavlova


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    whupdedo wrote: »
    Give it time

    It will never go back and can only fall long term.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 654 ✭✭✭Gerry Rio


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    I'd invest in some kind of hipster café type thing. Like a café that doesn't sell coffee or has no chairs or the chairs are on the ceiling or something.

    60% of all new cafes and restaurants fail within their first 2 years of business. But you might be onto something.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,755 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    uranium or copper or some other metal with an exponential demand curve


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭Sheepy99


    I prefer the original cloud.

    "a visible mass of condensed watery vapour floating in the atmosphere, typically high above the general level of the ground"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭Sheepy99


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    I'd invest in some kind of hipster café type thing. Like a café that doesn't sell coffee or has no chairs or the chairs are on the ceiling or something.

    Just an empty, derelict building so?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭Sheepy99


    Set up an organ harvesting business. Can never have too many organs.
    Then when ye hit your first million, celebrate in style..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,636 ✭✭✭dotsman


    it's a common fallacy that housing trends towards some multiple of rents like stock prices (should). LCredit is a major factor. I'd expect a reversal in any housing gains when interest rates go to normal.

    But rental demand is not decreasing - it's increasing. And courtesy of the Central Bank it will only increase further. Rental yields are currently so high that, not only would a property investor make an excellent return today, but they also have a serious cushion against any interest rate increases (which won't happen for many years). The central bank is gambling on (with the massively curtailed credit) that domestic demand for property purchases will decrease and, thus, house prices will stabilise (they have a long way to go before that - some properties are still overvalued, others undervalued). However, foreign investors, who don't suffer from the central banks restrictions, could easily clean up, resulting in a huge shift in demographics in this country, with a huge proportion of the population destined to be permanently stuck in the rental market, paying rent to foreign landlords.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Gerry Rio wrote: »
    60% of all new cafes and restaurants fail within their first 2 years of business. But you might be onto something.
    Sheepy99 wrote: »
    Just an empty, derelict building so?

    Something that's of absolutely no value to society whatsoever.

    Then, we sit back and the money will roll right in.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 654 ✭✭✭Gerry Rio


    It's a bubble as in a fad.


    Fads dont last ten years.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 815 ✭✭✭animaal


    I hear the Internet's the next big thing...

    I'll be investing in Bebo and Yahoo. It's the Information Superhighway, baby!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 760 ✭✭✭Desolation Of Smug


    Gerry Rio wrote: »
    Fads dont last ten years.

    Tell that to Apple..


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭TheBeardedLady


    Where do you think the data is stored on the cloud?


    A cloud?


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