Money or business?

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

I see, .....Interesting, Can't help but notice that no one mentions investing in the stock market?

 

Wrong place to have your treasure I can tell you. You aware of the shaking of financial institutions lately?!

 

£100k; nice chipper, pay off debts, build house.

[butler]

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Edited December 18, 2011 by John Shutler

[Le Sanglier]

Huck, that would be a very kind investment - and one that would give him a lot of enjoyment, along with some pretty useful tools for his future!

 

University certainly had a very positive effect on my life. Without it i would not have my own business, work ethic, or the same outlook on life.

I went from completely lost - to driven and focused in 3 short years!!!

 

what did you study at uni?

[luftwaffe]

Wrong place to have your treasure I can tell you. You aware of the shaking of financial institutions lately?!

 

£100k; nice chipper, pay off debts, build house.

Oh yes I'm aware.

 

Over the last 6 weeks I've researched 50 companys on the AIM part of the stock market, i've now narrowed that down to 10, these companys are mainly young companys with excellent growth potential, cash in the bank,

 

For most of them their share price has fell by 60-70 over the last 12 months through no fault of the company, the share price has fell on fears of a financial meltdown within the Eurozone.

 

Now even with a 60-70% down turn on these stocks this last year i feel there is a bit more pain to come before i start drip feeding in.

 

Its a game of patience,

[pgkevet]

without sounding like a ****, i personally don't think 100k would go as far a people think.

 

Agreed if just frittering it. But if soemone has grit and some skills then they could go a long way. Howabout this scenario:

 

100K and a history of an income and the right credentials. That should allow one to borrow another £2-300K for business reasons. Spend £200K on woodland at (say) £6-10K an acre depending on location..so call that 25 acres and another 50K on equipment secondhand.

 

Any new business (from my own experiences) means you work 7 days a week for the first three years. here you need to work for the man for 4 days a week and yourself the other three. It's not my area to know the return ..but I;d make a good guess that firewood, chip and sawdust at fair prices should give a bnet profit return of 10%..or no-one would own woodland except as a fluffy hobby.

 

Three years and you guys should have that woodland tamed, managed and extra incomes from it's amenity use and survived financially on your other job and a bit of the profit. Re-invest..more woodland with any surplus monies..work more for yourself and less for the man. 3-4 years should see the light at the end of the recession. Even if you fail to make any large money out of the timber then you have done two things ..paid off part of the mortgage, owned more land and it's increased in value. As folk have more disposable income then owning a nice tidy hobby wood becomes a fuzzy thing to do?

 

Yes, you worked like a slave but you could reasonable expect to cash out with 160-170K so 60-70K more than you started with and definately double+ what any safe bond or savings account would have given you..Oh, and a lot of blisters..

[butler]

Agree if its invested or used.

[toprotter]

100g's easy,sell my tat GO to cuba buy colonial beach front property, sit back

Fish eat well, swim . Live for peanuts and invest in locality/ tourism

Maybe have a picture of my mog on the wall to remind me of hard

Work.

[Stephen Blair]

100g's easy,sell my tat GO to cuba buy colonial beach front property, sit back

Fish eat well, swim . Live for peanuts and invest in locality/ tourism

Maybe have a picture of my mog on the wall to remind me of hard

Work.

 

Sweet!!!!

Shawshack redemption happy ending indeed:)

[Steve Bullman]

I might buy some stocks in Zynga

[pgkevet]

100g's easy,sell my tat GO to cuba buy colonial beach front property, sit back

Fish eat well, swim . Live for peanuts and invest in locality/ tourism

Maybe have a picture of my mog on the wall to remind me of hard

Work.

 

Not sure if cuba is one of those countries where foreigners can't buy/own property..like mexico where you have to do it through proxies..

 

I came close to buying a plantation in jamacia a few years ago...89 acres, half in coffee and half in coconuts and a few acres of citrus, breadfruit etc..included a nice enough 4 bedroom house and was going for 350K. Wifey scuppered that a bit with all sorts of extra demands if we went..that and the amount of general corruption you have to play ball with to actually get to sell a crop unless you plan on sitting on the roadside to try and sell 40 acres of coconuts!...