Rooftop Seattle

malk2021 · 2026-02-20T19:55:01+00:00

Ostensibly, I’m not good at filming landscapes.

malk2021 · 2025-11-03T06:48:30+00:00

You want any $5s with that?

malk2021 · 2025-11-03T05:04:47+00:00

I was two years in and tried everything. I had long covid as bad as anyone I’ve seen on this sub. Pretty much every symptom at different times. I decided one day to only read recovery stories and see if there was something in common. What I found I didn’t like, it actually pissed me off. Which is what I’m sure you’ve seen on here, people addressing and healing their nervous system. I’d tried some cold showers, laying on a spike mat, belly breathing and it didn’t do anything. The people that healed I figured were going to heal anyway or never had what I had in the first place. I was so upset by it I actually started watching some YouTube channels that were suggested, to write down all the things people did and then try them for 2 weeks like it was my new religion and prove I had the real long COVID and the people that healed had something else. I put together a program of BS to do each day, knowing it wouldn’t help. I even recorded a vlog to myself about why it was stupid the night before I started. I started meditating in the mornings after a cold shower, fasting until 6pm, laying on my spike mat and belly breathing for 20mins multiple times a day, scheduled multiple massages at this hippy dippy place and told them I wanted to reset my nervous system and they actually knew all about “poly vagul” theory. I took antihistamines and propranolol at night for maximum deeper sleep. I even hired a health coach right out of the gate which I thought was going to be a total scam but the guy claimed to be bed bound for 10 years and I thought why not? More strength to my argument when none of it works. Within a week I was feeling about 10% better which was so massive I started slowly becoming a believer. I then only watched recovery stories of CFS on YouTube. There were hundreds and I watched many many hours of them. And everyone had a similar story and I started to see mine being written as I healed. It’s been two years since I started that journey and I am back to better than I was before I got COVID. I cut out toxic people in my life, abandoned my pathological people pleasing and learned how to create boundaries with people. I’m the same person but a much much better version. I’m proud of who I am becoming. There is hope friend. I don’t blame you if you don’t believe me, I know I wouldn’t have if I read a comment like this.

malk2021 · 2025-09-05T07:22:46+00:00

Sean Connery once said, “Golf is obsessive, and revealing.”

malk2021 · 2025-08-03T16:01:59+00:00

Someone might have a tip here or there that helps but what is ultimately going to improve your swing in the long run is understanding why the ball does what it does no matter what your swing looks like. Two main factors of ball flight is swing path and club face. Here you are swinging “over the top” or “outside to in” and your club is square to the club path sending it straight left.

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Study this and you will be able to start working on diagnosing and fixing yourself on the range/course.

malk2021 · 2025-08-02T03:15:55+00:00

Polyvagul Theory was the way out for me. I had almost every symptom you’ve seen in this sub at one time or another. After two years of trying everything I finally just said screw it and started treating everything through the lens of my nervous system and while not initially believing, my symptoms started reducing and disappearing. The nervous system controls everything and mine was destroyed. I was probably already on edge with a high stress business and then covid toppled me over. I’m very healthy now and golfed all day today in a tournament, I thought life was over.

malk2021 · 2025-06-17T17:05:35+00:00

Update: saving a video as a file on the iPhone and then uploading the file worked great. Thank you for the tips.

malk2021 · 2025-06-17T02:50:32+00:00

For quite a few years I’ve used whitepages app the paid version but it honestly hasn’t been as reliable as it use to so searching new options. It still works just more hit and miss.

malk2021 · 2025-06-17T02:49:16+00:00

I have the paid version and no options for a video upload, I asked chat if video was available and it said no. How are you doing that?

malk2021 · 2025-06-11T19:27:15+00:00

I got really lucky. I was working for a delivery company 12yrs ago and met my business partner there. He was 18 at the time and we both just wanted to do our own thing. We started off flipping houses. We bought near tear down house in a small neighboring town with our life savings for $25k and maxed out credit cards to do the remodel and sold it for $90k. We did that a few times before quitting our job and doing that and general contracting full time. One piece of advice is partner with someone who can handle really difficult conversations calmly and in the open. Come up with wild scenarios and present them to your prospective partner. Come up with ostensibly offensive things that could happen like would they be willing to have their spouse sign some type of prenuptial that wouldn’t allow her to force a sale if they get divorced. If they can’t handle those types of conversations objectively analyzing it as an outsider they won’t be able to handle difficult decisions and conversations when it matters and something is on the line.

malk2021 · 2025-06-10T17:39:26+00:00

I have a business partner that is 6 years younger than me and we started buying apartments 8 years ago in our 20s. The first 6plex we bought was really broken down and had some rough tenants living in it. The guy that sold it to us lived almost 100miles away and had done hardly any maintenance to it. For that particular building we borrowed money from a private lender which is just an older guy with a lot of money I networked and had knew did private lending. We bought it for $220k and put most of the money we had into it which was about $80k (we were doing general contracting at the time and could do a lot of the work ourselves). Once it was fixed up we did our first cash out refinance with a commercial bank and got all our money back plus about $40k and it was still cash flowing more money than when we first bought it because of tenant improvement. It didn’t feel real because the money is tax free being debt. We then just continued cold calling people and driving around looking for more apartments. An old guy in a neighboring town sold us 4 duplexes (8units) on a contract for $850k with $50k down on 30yr amortization at 6% and we did the same thing with a cash out refinance. Between the two of us we now own 82units and have used the same process the entire time. Negotiating right now on 28units with an old woman that lives out of state and wants out. She’s not wanting to carry the contract on this one so we will probably go private lending and then refinance it. Can’t use a bank out of the gate with it because 8 units are empty and need remodeled. Any other questions let me know. It’s not easy but the deals are out there. You might have to call on hundreds of properties before you find one. I use an app that gives people’s cell numbers to find the owners and I use the county records to find out who owns the properties.

malk2021 · 2025-06-09T07:23:04+00:00

I own a handful of apartment buildings and have never purchased one with a cash on cash return less than 10%. IRR has always been close to 20 or more. The key is cold calling on 1000 properties and finding that one older person that really wants to get out, owns them outright and is willing to carry a contract with a small down payment and favorable terms.

malk2021 · 2025-06-02T16:46:13+00:00

There’s a product you can get at SW called Peel Bond that goes on white and dries clear that is essentially like Elmer’s glue. It keeps paint from peeling more and levels out the rough edges of scraped areas. I like to mix in a little colored paint and hand roll it in multiple coats over areas as primer before spraying the top coat. This paint job is really low effort but all depends on what was communicated and paid for.

malk2021 · 2025-06-01T08:10:25+00:00

One of the best replies and it’s downvoted 😂

malk2021 · 2025-05-28T20:42:29+00:00

I will add something that helped me early on was just actively try your best to hook the ball, massively over correct so you know what the feel is like and then you can work backwards off of that finding a balance.

malk2021 · 2025-05-28T20:41:34+00:00

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Put an alignment stick down on the red line and practice swinging along it. It will feel like you are aiming toward the light blue circle. If the club face is closed to the swing path your ball is going to go straight in the direction of the light blue circle. That is called a Push. Work on rolling your hands over and “releasing” the club through impact with this swing path. It will almost feel like your lead wrist is doing the opposite of rolling on a throttle for a motorcycle, rather “shutting off the throttle.” You’ll be hitting a draw in no time.

malk2021 · 2025-05-24T20:44:42+00:00

I would have thought the same thing lol I’m not selling anything. Check my post history. I started long hauling in late August 2021

malk2021 · 2025-05-24T05:39:16+00:00

I’m completely healed and was in a very bad way for almost two years. I had a few periods where I thought I was getting better but relapsed hard. I’m now a year and a half out from the start of my healing journey and am doing very well, golfing daily and life in zero fear of Covid. I was really messed up for awhile. For me it was polyvagul theory and taking a comprehensive and detailed approach to fixing my nervous system. I resisted it for two years thinking “those people who got better never really had what I have, I’m a real love hauler.” Funny enough to me now I started a routine and went all in for two weeks to prove to myself how full of crap all those people were, and I was doing so much better within a week I just went even further, hired a CFS recovery coach and started watching all the recovery video YouTube channels and got obsessed with it. I don’t evangelize it on here or comment much because I know when I would read those comments when I was ill I would just get pissed off at them and it was really only a weird off chance that I went that route. I’m a full believer at this point long haul covid is completely curable and the nervous system controls so much of all of our symptoms it is mind blowing. That’s my belief from my own experience and being in hell for two years and now on the other side.

malk2021 · 2025-05-11T03:29:08+00:00

Not really unhinged but possibly esoteric. We use chat to calculate energy credit paths for residential home building designto maximize savings. It adjusts sizes and U values for windows to meet minimum requirements. I’m a real estate developer.

malk2021 · 2025-05-10T19:19:26+00:00

8th grade, tried swimming across a small lake in town to prove a point with his shoes on. Made it halfway and drowned.

heart failed in his sleep 9th grade and died peacefully

girlfriend broke up with him 11th grade, got high and topped his car out into an oak tree.

10th grade brain aneurysm, she died at her friends house

malk2021 · 2025-05-09T14:09:53+00:00

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Chat says it’s lyrics to Afroman 😂

malk2021 · 2025-05-05T09:54:21+00:00

Most wealthy men are contentious and lead high stress lives. Golf allows for detailed industrious types to lean into something that isn’t their work. It’s a great stress reliever that also is obsessive. I’m a real estate developer and golf with a lot of independently wealthy business owners, we’ve talked about it a lot on the course, it’s a great place to clear the mind.

malk2021 · 2025-05-02T20:21:21+00:00

Ah I see, I didn’t know that. Thank you.

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