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170 members have voted

  1. 1. How old are you?

    • Less than 20
      1
    • 20-30
      8
    • 31-40
      69
    • 41-50
      48
    • 51-60
      23
    • 61-70
      18
    • Over 70
      3


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44 years old, investor, looks like I was 30 when I joined this board.  Was on some early message boards with dealraker and a few other old timers back to around 2002 or so.  Investing since the year 2000 when I stopped going to college and used the rest of the college money to start.

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3 minutes ago, gfp said:

44 years old, investor, looks like I was 30 when I joined this board.  Was on some early message boards with dealraker and a few other old timers back to around 2002 or so.  Investing since the year 2000 when I stopped going to college and used the rest of the college money to start.

 

 

I found this in my email from February of 2008.  I'm not sure if this was when I first joined or if this was a move from one location to another.  I remember the board changing locations twice I think.

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Posted
4 minutes ago, gfp said:

44 years old, investor, looks like I was 30 when I joined this board.  Was on some early message boards with dealraker and a few other old timers back to around 2002 or so.  Investing since the year 2000 when I stopped going to college and used the rest of the college money to start.

60 something, LOL.  Could never hold down a job very long so stopped trying.  Since youth have always subscribed to the notion "let the money work for you" but it took half a lifetime to figure out how to do it.

Posted
2 minutes ago, 73 Reds said:

60 something, LOL.  Could never hold down a job very long so stopped trying.  Since youth have always subscribed to the notion "let the money work for you" but it took half a lifetime to figure out how to do it.

 

Yeah, we started construction / development after hurricane Katrina in New Orleans because there was so much opportunity in historic housing stock.  Those were the days.  Once bought an 1850 square foot double for $25k - wife talked them down from $40k ask.  Haven't bought any real estate since 2020 but retained some multifamily historic tax credit rentals that do their thing on the first of the month like clockwork.

Posted
14 minutes ago, gfp said:

 

Yeah, we started construction / development after hurricane Katrina in New Orleans because there was so much opportunity in historic housing stock.  Those were the days.  Once bought an 1850 square foot double for $25k - wife talked them down from $40k ask.  Haven't bought any real estate since 2020 but retained some multifamily historic tax credit rentals that do their thing on the first of the month like clockwork.

Funny, I thought about heading up to N.O. after Katrina but decided I didn't want to be (and couldn't be) an out of town landlord.  The financial crisis several years later provided me and my partners with lots of opportunities which will hopefully continue paying dividends long after I'm gone.

Posted
15 minutes ago, whatstheofficerproblem said:

This is by far my favorite Senior Living Facility. Jokes aside, only 4 people 20-30 so far? Wonder how many are on the lower end of that range.

The $50 sign up fee may be a significant hurdle for those on the younger side.  It's probably a good thing to keep out the spammers and the crowd from sites like WallStreetBets.  I know I'm in good company here.

 

"We find it’s difficult to teach a new dog old tricks. We like the people who have been around a while." - WEB

Posted (edited)

I'm 32 year old engineer. I've always been interested in investing but never really knew where to get started. I decided to get serious about investing a few years ago when Tesla was making up something silly like 4% of my index funds and I didn't like that. 

 

Had read a few books before but ordered 3-4 more sat down and read them. Scoured reddit for alternative sources of info and saw a comment mentioning this forum. Shadowed the what are you buying thread for a few months before plopping my $50 down which ultimately ended up being the best investment of my life. 

 

I may not post as much but I'm reading nearly everyday. Somedays more intently than others, but I can't underestimate the amount I've learned just from reading/osmosis. 

 

Thanks to everyone on this forum and HAPPY NEW YEAR. Good luck to all in the new year. 

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Posted (edited)

I am a 35 years old underwriter. I started investing when I was ~15 years old.. I think my first stock was some shitty clothing company (Jones New York). I knew nothing but was really interested in the stock market for some reason (probably due to my grandpa we discussed stocks all the time prior to his death). I graduated with a finance degree at a state university, but hated school since it was all theory other than one of my investment classes where as a group we got to invest $100K that was funded by the college. I worked 2 jobs through college, and took some of that money to invest along the way (I think I held AT&T through the GFC not realizing it was the sale of a lifetime going on). After graduating I had a few family members that wanted me to manage their retirement, and as soon as I got my first "real" job I started growing my snowball. The markets have ripped higher since I graduated (2011), I think basically I matched the index, maybe slightly worse due to holding too much cash. Now, I think about the future often (3 kids), and really wanting to create some lasting wealth decided last year to pull the trigger and join this board so I could learn from some people older/wiser than me. Since mostly everyone around me has very little interest in investing, and I've had no other "mentors" other than my grandpa, Buffett, and Munger I was drawn to this forum having stalked it for a few years. When the $50 fee went into place I knew it would only be a matter of time before this cheapskate ponied up.     

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Posted
2 hours ago, LC said:

Well I am 37 and you guys make me feel young, so thank you 😄

Still I am probably too old to ski the way I do

 

2 hours ago, whatstheofficerproblem said:

This is by far my favorite Senior Living Facility. Jokes aside, only 4 people 20-30 so far? Wonder how many are on the lower end of that range.

 

CofB&F getting better and better! 😄

Posted

41 here. Bought my first stock aged 12 with my confirmation money, like a good Irish catholic should. Total investment was 500 Irish pounds, as this was in roughly 1995 so pre € being introduced. The stock was a bank called Anglo Irish Bank and I ended up with 250 shares at £2 per share. Over the next 12 years the stock was roughly a 20 bagger as it rode the boom in Irish and global real estate. I was of course an investing genius who had turned 500 into about 20 grand. Then the global financial crisis hit and I enjoyed the lovely ride down from 20k to zero over the space of about a year before the bank got nationalised by the Irish government. Was a painful but very helpful lesson for me to learn at the very start of my investment journey. Been investing ever since and started formally tracking my returns for the last 9 years.

 

Posted
1 hour ago, Blake Hampton said:

I'm currently 22, joined the board when I was 20.

 

My first stock was Alibaba. 🙁

That's great that you are starting so young.  I have to say that you do look quite a bit older than 22 though.

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