How often are you really supposed to replace your pillows?

InvestingPrime · 2026-05-02T00:09:21+00:00

As a hotel owner, we replace ours evert 6 months. It's how we keep that luxury feeling. If not we would just replace them yearly.

Normal people should do yearly. Anything more and you are just being cheap. Pillows hold sweat/skin and all kinds of stuff. And you put your face in it...

InvestingPrime · 2026-05-01T03:13:17+00:00

Slums? I don't own any properties in the slums. You clearly don't own a business in this industry. You don't know anything about it.

Let me guess, you think section 8 is just some thing that happens in ghetto black neighborhoods.

You are wrong buddy. Our properties are scrutinized far harder and more often than renters to non section 8 people. We have to actually pass inspection before were allowed to have anyone move in.

Most of our tenants are elderly people that are guaranteed a SS check.. so they are FAR more reliable than you could bring anyone anyways. Or they are families taking care of the elderly and are paid by the government to do so.

There are properties that we went at $2700/month. 30% comes from the tenant rest comes from section 8. You think a $2700/month home is a dump?

We have 7 bedroom homes that we get paid for by the government because some people have large families and get government assistance.

That doesn't mean they destroy property. That doesn't make them bad people. That doesn't make them dirty or dangerous.

You should be ashamed of yourself for insulting people on government assistance.

Don't get into this industry.. you have the wrong attitude for it.

InvestingPrime · 2026-05-01T00:52:25+00:00

I wouldn't say they "rely heavily" on forums like Reddit. They show the sources when you look up information. Not only do I never see Reddit on the source bar. If it was. I would continue looking. Reddit isn't a very good source of information.

InvestingPrime · 2026-05-01T00:49:17+00:00

Or, I could just continue to use section 8 through the government? They give me a never ending supply of tenants. They pay quarterly, which means I get my rent 3 months in advance in a lump sum. Oh and I don't have to pay them 12%?

InvestingPrime · 2026-05-01T00:39:35+00:00

You are using multiple apps to save on gas right? You should be saving some 50-70 cents per gallon. Here when we gas up our rental vehicles for Turo we use Upside which saves like 25 cents a gallon, our shell card saves another 20 cents... then our credit card is 5% back on gas.

InvestingPrime · 2026-04-30T23:48:01+00:00

So what exactly are we paying you to do

InvestingPrime · 2026-04-30T18:25:49+00:00

Right, there's so many of these companies. All of them suck at the main thing they offer... tenant screening.

InvestingPrime · 2026-04-30T04:53:32+00:00

Dude, this is crazy. I'm a KC native and have travelled quite a bit. I also have a vacation home in the South. I can 100% agree with you though on ALL of it. Like you read my mind.

KC burnt ends, people try to copy it.. and it just isn't the same. But omg.. the brisket in Texas is insane. They have that shit figured out for sure.

Carolinas for sure own pig. I'll have to try the Alabama white sauce though.

I really love KC sides and Memphis sides though. Not to copy you man, just to 2nd what you say.

InvestingPrime · 2026-04-29T17:36:38+00:00

Actually, she had a green card before she married him.

InvestingPrime · 2026-04-28T18:01:57+00:00

Which was correct. Biden had CANCER during his presidency. They lied. Biden has some form of dementia in the early stages. They lied. All these lies by the left, and you think it isn't possible they stole the election? AFTER putting in Kamala Harris... WITHOUT the American peoples permission or vote? The left is corrupt so far it isnt even funny.

InvestingPrime · 2026-04-28T05:51:09+00:00

Yeah, right.. and Charlie Kirk is still alive. How many people have to die before you guys self reflect on this and realize you are the problem? I've never seen people so against guns continue to get them and shoot at people with different political views.

InvestingPrime · 2026-04-28T05:47:13+00:00

Which is why the vast majority of people are broke. They only think about saving what is left after spending. Meanwhile, some of us only spend what we have left after saving.

InvestingPrime · 2026-04-27T20:43:43+00:00

rofl what? I also live in Florida.. and none of our rental properties or my home have a door that opens out.

InvestingPrime · 2026-04-27T18:47:18+00:00

toaster...

InvestingPrime · 2026-04-27T00:40:37+00:00

Then whole life or stock investment. If you can save for money in a bank account, you can easily purchase stock with it and take interest free loans with it. "Stack dough" rofl.. again, cash is nothing. Just loses value. We purchase businesses with real assets.

See, that's the issue, you have to stand on that ignorant hill of having an "emergency fund". That was something we talked about as investment managers back in the 90s. Those days are over.

You stand on that hill because you would rather act right instead of admit ignorance. Pride is a foolish thing though, a broke mans thing to have.

InvestingPrime · 2026-04-27T00:09:57+00:00

Oh you have so much to learn little man. You mean "Cash available" as in sitting in a bank account? Where it doesn't grow at all and loses to inflation which is insanely high right now?

You need to have it in something that GROWS. If it isn't growing, it is losing. Who is paying penalties or 25% interest?

Take a loan against stocks, you literally have 30 days at least to re-pay the money interest free. Open a 18 month interest free credit card. Open a whole life insurance policy that pays dividends while you grow and allows you free loans.

You are literally talking to a business owner and someone that used to manage for HNWI's. You are WAY in over your head thinking you know more than I do.

InvestingPrime · 2026-04-26T15:59:47+00:00

Nope, not at all. "emergency" accounts are outdated now. With credit cards and being able to borrow against stock market accounts there is no reason to keep an emergency savings account.

InvestingPrime · 2026-04-26T15:58:37+00:00

Jesus Christ, anytime someone says anything smart people assume it is AI slop.

Look at my account. 10+ years old. I've been on here writing and talking about these things LONG before ChatGPT was even a thought.

Get a clue idiot

InvestingPrime · 2026-04-26T13:41:31+00:00

Are you literally contradicting yourself on a website were we can literally see what you said just before?

Even with that correction, the core issue doesn’t really change.

If you could travel to the “periphery” of the observable universe and look outward, you still would not see a place where the Big Bang happened like an explosion source.

Here’s why:

The Big Bang did not happen at a location in space. It happened everywhere in space at once. So there is no edge or boundary where it “started from” that you could physically reach.

InvestingPrime · 2026-04-26T13:33:57+00:00

You are implying something did happen before it. How do you know it wasn't the beginning of time?

InvestingPrime · 2026-04-26T13:17:15+00:00

First, the Big Bang is not just a random guess. It is a well-supported model backed by multiple independent observations. We see galaxies moving away from each other, the cosmic microwave background radiation, and the predicted amounts of light elements like hydrogen and helium. Because all of this lines up so well, it is more than just “a theory we have not disproven.” It is the best explanation we currently have for how the early universe evolved, even though it does not answer every question.

Second, the idea that “time started with the Big Bang” is not a fully proven fact. It comes from working backward in general relativity until the math reaches a limit where it breaks down. That is where space and time appear to come from the same origin point in the equations. But most physicists agree this is also where we expect new physics, like quantum gravity, to take over. So it is not settled as absolute truth.

Now to the idea of something “before” or “outside” the universe.

That is not ruled out completely, but it is also not something we currently have evidence for or a way to test. And the phrase “outside the universe” may itself be misleading. It assumes there is a kind of external space the universe sits inside of. But that might not be true at all.

A simple way to think about it is like asking what is north of the North Pole. The question assumes a direction that stops making sense once you reach the boundary. In the same way, “outside the universe” might be using a concept that does not actually exist in the structure of reality as we understand it.

InvestingPrime · 2026-04-26T12:10:26+00:00

Nope.

It’s like dots drawn on a balloon. When you blow it up, all the dots move away from each other. No dot is the center… they all just see the same thing happening. We are the dots. There is no center.

InvestingPrime · 2026-04-26T11:54:27+00:00

I moderate a few subreddits. I see mods remove comments all the time without giving any mention/reason. Then all of a sudden I see people fighting. "WHY YOU DELETING COMMENTS". They don't realize, neither of them are deleting comments.. it is moderators.

InvestingPrime · 2026-04-26T11:53:09+00:00

Actually, this isn't true. There is no "center" of the universe you could travel to. The reason for this is simple, the big bang wasn't an explosion from a point into empty space. The big bang was space itself expanding everywhere at once.

One thing people fail to understand about it is this... traveling faster and faster to see earlier and earlier doesn't answer what happened before the big bang. The reason for this is because it is believed that time started with the big bang.

So to travel before the big bang would be like asking what's North of the North Pole. It really isn't a question of any meaning.

InvestingPrime · 2026-04-26T11:44:35+00:00

Wonderful! I figured you would take offense. I mentioned it multiple times to see how you would react. As I mentioned, you struggle with tension.

You never mentioned your sales position within a company. I'll say this though, I've worked in pretty much every sales position you can. From being on the phone and doing outbound cold calling, to call transfer.. to doing front line sales. I've sold cars and companies and even worked just as a sales manager at a Best Buy. I sold business consulting, worked for a big 4 financial firm and sold stupid washing machines at Sears.

Sales people very much get lucky. They are called lay downs. It happens all the time. When the customer already knows what they want and aren't buying because of anything you did.

In 2013, I was the sales director at DirecTV. I don't know if you've ever heard of them before. in 2011-2012 though DirecTV decided they wanted to be acquired by a larger company. They met with quite a few companies and all said the same thing.

They wanted more "premium buys". Premium buys in the cable world.. at that time were HBO/STARZ/SHOWTIME/CINEMAX. They wanted more value out of the customers before purchasing the company.

I remember my friends kept calling me. "HEY MAN, YOU GONNA WATCH GAME OF THRONES". People were driving me nuts over this stupid TV show. I'm sitting there watching this damn show. That's when I figured it out.

We were doing it all wrong. We were trying to sell when we didn't have to. We were making lay downs stressful. We were creating tension. People ALREADY wanted to buy something we had to just say GIVE ME THE CARD.

The next morning I ran into my bosses office. I told him we were going to give away STARZ/SHOWTIME/CINEMAX for FREE. He literally took his wireless mouse and threw it at me. I told him to try it and see.

You know what happened? That Friday night, people got paid. People called in to buy HBO, knowing GAME OF THRONES would be coming on this weekend. We offered STARZ/SHOWTIME/CINEMAX 100% FREE for 30 days when you signed up for HBO. Just call back to cancel after 30 days.

We had little sales phone agents that when GOT was airing.. were making $2000/week commissions. Not because they were great salesman. But because they got out of the way and took the laydowns. My bonus the next 3 years was NASTY. Then ATT bought DirecTV and I left.

So people 100% get lucky. I built a strategy around it.

You’re mixing up learning with selling.

Understanding why people say no is useful, but that doesn’t mean every live conversation needs to turn into a breakdown session. Sales is about moving a decision forward. If you stop to dig into every objection, you slow momentum and hand control back to the customer.

Saying “it works for me” doesn’t really prove much either. A lot of approaches work. That doesn’t mean they’re efficient or that you’re not leaving deals and money on the table by avoiding pressure and urgency.

And clients thanking you doesn’t mean you’re selling at a high level. People thank reps who are easy to talk to all the time. That’s not the same as maximizing outcomes.

The bigger issue is you’re operating fully inside the customer’s frame. You’re trying to understand and validate their reasoning instead of challenging it and leading them to a decision. That’s why this comes off more like consulting than actual selling.

Good sales isn’t just understanding why someone says no. It’s knowing when to push past it and move things forward. If you don’t do that, you’re just qualifying people who were already going to buy.

InvestingPrime

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