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Self Storage & Airbnb Investor | Surf & Volleyball | Retired Profitable Ecomm Bro

Near a beach with waves
Joined February 2012
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Property Managers do not make enough to care. Manage your own property or find the smallest capable manager.
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Just rented a big unit from @SDSelfStorage which is a 1MM+ Sqft operator in some of the most expensive markets in the country. $30/sqft range. Problems with their checkout / rental process which is so dated. - Offer ACH promo with no way to use ACH to pay online - Asked 3 times what date I wanted to move in and I'm not sure which one got onto the contract - Says I can reserve a unit for anytime in the next 30 days but only offers a 2 week window - Their facility map once I did rent looks like it was drawn on Etch-a-sketch - The hours for access the phone agent told me are different than online - There is an add on for a $3 auto pay fee but I have no idea what it was, and it was optional? - They asked me what date I wanted to be billed...ummm when rent is due? I'm not complaining. I'm here to help.
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IF Anthropic is worth $1.4T then $SPCX is worth $4.2T right now.
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San Fran, Encinitas/Cardiff, La Jolla, Laguna residential real estate markets somehow seem untouchable...their time will come.
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It blows my mind that with residential real estate falling off a cliff in most markets, the $3MM+ markets in coastal California are seemingly as stong as ever.
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Is silver a buy? Inflation adjusted trading 3-10x historical but with usage in AI, chips, and solar...currently using 5% of reserves annually.
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Equifax should lose its charter, it is unbelievable how behind the times they are. @Equifax
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Is the next dollar you invest meant to grow, or to pay you?
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Assuming your customers will act rational is ridiculous. Assume only that they will follow established patterns.
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James C. Paine retweeted
Expect struggles like sailors expect storms
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My experience in real estate is you can’t just buy 10 small cash flowing properties in the Midwest. The cash is never enough to live on and the swings are too big. I bought 40 still sucked.
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Has anyone figured out how to get @bot to use passwords. I have 1password connected but it really doesn't work consistently
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James C. Paine retweeted
it doesn't matter if you have the best product/service/app in the world if you're selling to a market that has other people who claim the same thing while doing 10% of what you do, it doesn't matter cream rarely rises to the top on its own and a megaphone always crowds out a microphone
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James C. Paine retweeted
you can only take action on what you can pay attention to
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Gmail's @bot connector across 7 of my accounts just turned the ability to reply off and now @bot can only draft emails. My use case is customer service. Not good. Plz Fix.
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Been using @bot for a week. Ok I get it. Humans are done. Idk how people are going to do useful work in the near future. #itsover
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This is it. This is the top of the cycle. Sell everything today
The Surf Lodge is collaborating with Popeyes on its iconic $150 Chicken Tender Towers for the summer starting this Memorial Day weekend
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$BTC will be sub $25k before the end of 2027
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Employees: If you're thinking you have an easy job putting in 2-3 hours a day and taking home a full time wage...when things get tight you're gonna be gone. Be proactive, figure out other ways to make yourself useful to the company and get more hours in. If not you'll be first on the block.
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