Comments by "Maxwell Benz" (@Tential1) on "Louis Rossmann" channel.

  1. My bro makes 25%+ more than me and never went. College isn't what it used to be. As long as you're frugal, invest your money wisely, and educate yourself/keep learning, you'll be good.
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  2.  @holyhandgrenades5529  a lot of plumbers make good money. In fact, I hear there are a shortage of plumbers. "trade" jobs are amazing right now.
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  3. ​ @BaldFury1 it's worse than that. The property next door is appraised at 30M, at 1/30 the size of lot. It's the most ridiculous ruling. It makes sense to normal people like the poster, who doesn't work with millions of dollars. That's why they did this, it "could make sense". It doesn't. It's very stupid. There is no way I could buy it for 30M. Also, a judge can't make a ruling on whether a loan makes sense. Dude, if they did that, our whole industry would collapse. OK, then we work investors can get their money back. They paid 50B market cap valuation for trash. We can't let judges value businesses and properties they're clueless on. The real issue is, appraisers suck at their job for tax purposes (or do it on purpose.).
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  4.  @joltjolt5060  so you think he found a dying roach and picked it up and put it in his room for YouTube views? K. Amazing that he found the roach in perfect YouTube condition. Must have done a casting call.... /s
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  5. A lot of employers are simply upset that their employees didn't come back to work after they were laid off
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  6. People having no morals is why the opioid epidemic happened as just one example. You think doctors, pharmacists, people marketing the drug, etc. All didn't know patients died/disappeared from society after opiods? Of course they did... And they kept being a part of the machine because, money and no morals. Tons of people without morals or integrity. It's a huge issue.
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  7. This is why I'm trying to move. The pandemic opened my eyes and gave me a lot of time to think about my living situation and I'm working way too many hours. The pay isn't worth the work. So I'm starting my own company instead where I can get the actual benefits of my work. It'll take me a few years until I can quit working entirely for someone else, but my health, life quality, etc. Was just low, and being stuck at home working all the time only made me realize that I need my own business and not rely on someone else.
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  8. Great idea. Every time I'm late for work "my car has buggy anti drunk driving and disabled the car for 15 minutes again."
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  9. This makes so much more sense now compared to where I was 8 years old and I want to get my desktop PC fixed and they quoted me a price above and beyond how much it would cost to just buy a brand new computer so I ended up building a new computer
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  10.  @j7704  women outnumber men on college campuses don't they? So from a class perspective, there are more women who consider themselves upper class than men. So therefore, there aren't enough "upper class" men to go around. And even if you do go to college women who go to college don't consider you on their level unless you hold a job with a title higher than theirs. If you're both on the same level, you're still not an attractive mate.
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  11. ​ @rangerdoc1029 no, the judge is saying the due diligence done by an APPRAISER was better than the banks due diligence, and is attempting to protect the bank even though the bank didn't bring the case. It makes ZERO sense. Appraisers can't value the land based on the BUSINESS it's used for. If I build a hotel on land, that requires the appraiser to be an expert in the business and they aren't. Imagine needing an appraiser for EVERY SINGLE INDUSTRY OF BUSINESS. IT'S LUDICROUS.
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  12. 6:00 thank God someone finally said this. I can't believe you have the balls to go against this narrative. It's frustrating having the media constantly paint men as a villains. You don't think I'd date a woman making my salary or more? But women not only aren't interested, I now realize they ask me probing questions to figure out my salary. I've had women straight up say "I don't think you make a lot of money" and just walk off. Media couldn't care less. But God forbid if you flip those scenarios and a man said he wouldn't date a woman for any reason. You're a phobic or ism. For all the things society has asked us to accept while dating, the standards for men have only gotten higher. Make more money, be taller, more in shape, more charismatic, spontaneous and if you're not? That's fine, you're one tinder swipe away from being replaced. Instead the narrative is men don't accept women and have too insane standards for women. The media has created a completely false narrative. Even the beauty standards thing is bs. 80% of men are below average in looks to women whole its 50% for men. Yet Men's standards are too high. Women file 80% of divorces. But it's men who are blamed saying "if only you had been better, less abusive, less toxic." Dating and relationships is a lot harder than ever before for a normal dude.
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  13. Just send them the video lol. Jesus. He did three rooms.
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  14. ​​ @rangerdoc1029 I transact in millions. They do die diligence. It's just the judge has ZERO understanding of what we do, because it's basically black magic. I couldn't explain it if I tried. So an APPRAISER value of something? Lol. I call it the real world and the finance world. Your world, the real world, 20M is a large number, and an appraiser might use that to show something is valuable. Where as in our world, the finance world, 20M is, what shows up on my sheets as 20. We count in millions. So 20 is no problem. Hell, even myself, a lowly staff person can raise 100M. It's just, when you get to our magnitude of numbers, it's impossible to comprehend unless you live it. This is a world where we would spend 20M extra to buy the property, without second thought. 20M isn't even a lot of money when you talk about that business.
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  15. It's amazing how far out of their way they will go to make sure that you cannot repair your own device
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  16. People act like YouTubers just get free money.... Editing videos and recording isn't easy it's a lot of work. It's a full time job with no holiday (the algo doesn't like you taking breaks.) you're not self employed, you're employed by a freaking soulless algorithm that you can't bargain with or reason with. I've seen so many people go for years with no traction before finally putting up money. The one finance channel I listen to, he got paid 5.95 an hour for YouTube (revenue divided by hours worked), so he made below minimum wage. And if YouTube is so easy, go do it yourself.... It's really not.
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  17. I had to remind myself that I'm just watching a video because I started getting allergic reaction to that
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  18. The fines are purposely chosen to be a large number to every day average Joe's. To me? As a person in the finance industry? If you aren't talking billions, I'm not interested. 225M isn't real money. In this case of Apple and Amazon? You need to throw at least 10B around before I care. Any news story under 500M is ignored beyond annoyance at regulators for wasting time.
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  19. Q3, apple made 20B of profit. Just in one quarter. 225M fine? Lol..... K.
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  20.  @KA-vs7nl  so you're against trump asking the government to regulate Facebook for banning him from its PRIVATE COMPANY PLATFORM too? Government should stay out of private business right?
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  21. The whole reason they are doing this is because they want a recurring cost. Businesses don't like one-time purchases they like subscription models. repairs are just essentially another subscription model
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  22. Lol, tell that to police officers.... Not justifying what this dude did, but getting shot for not obeying orders is more regular than you think. Should it be this way? No, I agree with you there, but that's how it is. And no, don't be idiotic and think the police always give an order to drop a weapon that wasn't complied with as the poster below suggests. The insane number of unarmed shootings that happen in this country contradicts that. Literally search "unarmed police killing" and you'll find a recent shooting because it keeps happening.
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  23. I tried man. But the look on a woman's face when she does or thinks she makes more than you, it's something I can't unsee. The complete turn off. Not for lack of trying, I'd love to make decent money with a partner and not struggle in life. But the article assumes men just can pick women as we please. We can't. We pick from the options handed to us, and the options handed to most men are women who earn less than us. Women who earn more will openly say "I can do better than you." it's not even a secret, so I don't knoe why the articles and media never point this out.
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  24.  @daviddavies3637  one of the major reasons it's hard to leave the US, is our infrastructure is idiotically good. Not our local infrastructure, but our business one. So we get every good dirt cheap. People in America don't understand, most electronics and other goods we like our cheapest to buy in America. But California.... Ya, it's a huge circle jerk here.
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  25. If we didn't make the banking system incredibly more complicated than it had to be, and everyone would be able to manage their finances well. The whole point is to add as much complication as possible that way you have to dedicate your life to understanding the system that way people who do have a job. Otherwise I wouldn't have a job
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  26.  @bonbonpony  it doesn't matter dude. It's our FREE RIGHT to decide whether we want to or not. McDonald's can't tell you it's too dangerous to cook at home so you need to go to their place to get a hamburger. If you want to be an idiot, open up a device and completely screw with it, that's your choice. If you want to repair or modify your gun, it's your choice. But now, a phone, and people are worried about whether a person has enough skill to repair? Who cares this is a free country. You can do it if you want. The fact people keep bringing up whether you're dumb or smart shows their marketing is working. It DOESN'T MATTER. WE CAN DO WHAT WE WANT WITH OUR OWN STUFF. if I decide to smash my TV, that's MY CHOICE.
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  27. 25k on a car? Rofl, oh Louis, those were the old days. I hope you got another 10k+ to spend.
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  28. I don't understand how my computer was made (OK a bit, but that's not the point) or how my server database was made, yet I fix them all the time? So..... Ya.....
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  29.  @platin2148  if you don't trust pharma, why do you take any medicines? You know pharma makes more than vaccines right? This reasoning is behind idiotic. Pharma makes more money if you don't take the vaccine and get sick because the drugs you will take in the ICU will cost way more than the vaccine.
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  30.  @thomask70  doesn't matter if you did actually fix it or you failed. You have the RIGHT to try. That's the point. You have the RIGHT to try to cook your own dinner too. I have almost burned down my apartment complex which would effect 100 other people, yet no one is fighting to take our right to cook away (please don't tell me I gave McDonald's a new idea lol).
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  31. 6:30 it's so freaking weird that non shareholders defend a company.
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  32. Sold, buying another set now.
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  33. No loophole, you have no idea how much money they have. If you're a licensed professional and you go around to investorw you can easily raise a billion dollars to buy homes. Wealthy people have a lot of money that needs to go somewhere. Housing is just the current trend
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  34. Louis, it's extremely common for public businesses to lose money (and private) when they are in their growth phase. Just go look at financials from most companies. Remember Tesla, how you all complained that Tesla was an unprofitable business and it was going to go bankrupt? And now, it has the highest profit margins of any auto, with last quarter hitting 11.76%. There are COMPLETELY valid reasons to stay unprofitable in the early years of your business, it just doesn't apply to businesses like yours that are very small. As a person who has actually experienced this, but had your line of thinking, you can't think like a normal person when you are playing at this level. I thought like you, focused on short-term profitability at the expense of scaling the business, and got stomped out by competition. When you're playing with private equity backers, or can secure hundreds of millions/billions in loans, the game is played differently.
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  35. @FlippyisFloppy good things can come from either side. The fact people think that the other side is "evil and can do no good" just allows our enemies to win. Who benefits when Americans think "the other side is evil!" not Americans, China, Russia, any country competing with us wins when we fight amongst ourselves and can't see the good in each other. Half the messages you see online that claim to be left or right are foreign intelligence agents trying to get Americans to hate each other. And it's working. Talk to people in real life. Learn to love your fellow Americans. Stop interacting on the internet thinking it's real. Because any person can claim to be an American, be from a government or terrorist group that hates America and try to drive us apart.
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  36. This is why I was afraid to YouTube. Eventually, I speak my mind. And I've been online long enough to know that if you disagree with the wrong group you'll get banned even if your disagreement is completely valid
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  37. This mindset is what most of the young employees at the business I work at feel like. They have this hopeless, everything is rigged, nature about them. So they never try at anything because it's all just luck, connections, something they don't have.
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  38.  @slendercode5252  people worry about their political ideology too much. It doesn't matter who the president is. If you like right to repair support it. In fact, if you are a hardcore Republican and you like right to repair, call your Republican legislator and have them support it. If you are a hardcore Democrat and you like right to repair, call your Democratic legislator and have them support it. Instead, we have people fighting along party lines for something they actually want.
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  39.  @gauloise6442  all depends on who these women chase. The data shows women on dating apps are Insanely selective and only go after 15% of the men on the app (men will talk to most women on average). OK cupid and other dating sites have published this data. Women on apps simply need to pick different people. To suggest it's men as a whole who are sexualizing women on apps is a false narrative. Another creator did the economics of tinder. For the average guy using a dating app, he's lucky to get 1 match a day. In fact, the average number of matches for a normal dude is extrmely low compared to the average woman. But I mean, men have been saying this for ages online. Doesn't matter. The media will run with your narrative that it's young men sexualizing women rather than the truth which is women chase the same small group of men which allows those men to be complete jerks because there's another 10 ladies lined up.
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  40. Also you're thinking about it from your standpoint Louis. As a regular Amazon user, when I see refurbished I assume it means refurbished authorized by the manufacturer or Amazon. When anyone is allowed to use refurbished then it's a little confusing. I'm sure this is what Amazon was trying to clamp down on. I understand where you are coming from, however I also understand how Amazon is trying to clean up its platform to avoid fake items being sold. It's not a perfect system clearly and needs work but the fine and "anti compete" is a little misleading. Amazon is clearly trying to combat the gray market sales on the platform, something politicians also complain about. There should maybe be a "user refurbished" tag just like how Amazon has Amazon renewed as a tag. Until then, I think this is just regulators trying to score political points and not actually understanding the problem.
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  41. 0:19 this is literally what I look like right now at home. I'm homeless....
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  42. Depends on what? Debt for enjoyment? Not good. Debt for faster asset growth? (like a home?) then yes. Debt is how I grew my NET ASSETS faster than ever before.
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  43. People who can actually trade options aren't sitting at a screen 24/7 stressing. We know what we are doing and it's not any remote stress more than boomer stocks. If you are stressed, you don't know what you're doing, and you should exit immediately.
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  44. This is inspirational just to see how much change we can make if we actually try and don't just give up.
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  45. If Apple dropped 10%+ the whole stock market would crater with it. When big tech makes up a huge percentage of the market, you don't want to risk tanking the stock market and scaring America. Easy cheat code.
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  46.  @edrosales1520 (sorry, wall of text, you got me talking about my favorite part of finance, secrecy) "alright, put your money where your mouth is and tell me how you make money so I can do it too." dude, whether it's trading, m&a, or whatever, most things in finance work because it's not a widely known tactic. If I promised you I could tell you how it would work, I would create a "course " sell it to you, and then scam you, like EVERY money guru you see on YouTube. How do you know a person has a real way to make money? They won't tell you. Dude, you could straight up torture me. I'm not telling you any way I've learned to make great profits. I don't even tell my family or friends, to be safe about leaks. The second it's widely known it loses effectiveness. We call it, alpha deterioration. Go read about Renaissance Technologies(there's a good book on it too). If you work there and say any part of their strategy publicly, they will destroy your life. I'm not breaking NDAs. M&A tactics are things you can only learn working in the industry, and giving that away is neutering a multimillion dollar opportunity. Just use this info to help you point out scams. If someone promises they can make you rich, they're lying. Because none of us in the industry would give away a strategy, even for money. We use the strategies to generate money. If you want to learn this stuff you're going to either have to join a company that has access to this info or I guess like I said, find someone capture them and torture them for the info. Also, just to clarify, zillow is a public business, the strategy you'd use in this case isn't an M&A strategy. Since we aren't proposing a merger or acquisition. It's more of a capital efficiency strategy. And like I said, I may have just misinterpreted what he said, it's mostly right. You really should be able to figure it out from what he said. But if you can't implement it, I'm not going to just give it away. Go make enough money for me to manage, collect my fee and sure, I'll help you improve how fast you can generate wealth too. Main issue with this being that because you don't understand how it works, you have no ability to find the people that can actually do this correctly. Also, while what he said is mostly correct, it assumes the company is successful. If it is, it's gravy. If not, you accelerate your losses. Many people and companies have failed/bankrupted specifically because of this.
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  47.  @edrosales1520  then I'll give you the benefit of the doubt as well. I was not speaking about m&a. This is zillow. M&a is different. Seriously though, what the op said, buy borrow and die, go try and learn it or ask someone for help on it in your company. It's a legitimate strategy. I just said I wouldn't explain it like that, and I wasn't exactly sure if he was explaining it correctly but on second read, op clearly does get it. It's just, not the exact reasoning I'd give for zillow doing this.
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  48. You would think the car Community would be all for right to repair. Those guys are pretty hardcore about working on their cars. I was going to ask why you didn't work with the big car YouTube channels on this but then, their sponsors are the big auto companies.... I just think it's odd that people in the car Community don't realize that they are about to lose the capability to work on their cars
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  49. Lol, While most people are probably hurting for money, in the investment Community there's so much money looking for a home that you could make a business burning money and you could get funding. Investors are so desperate they will take any investment opportunity no matter how bad. Having billions to put to work is not the problem of the Common Man but it is the problem of the investing community
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  50. This cynicism I get that everything is corrupt and broken and a secret cabal runs everything is just a cop out for people to sit at home, be consumers, and never actually try to do anything all while complaining everything is unfair.
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