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For years I was a member of one of the prominent churches at the corner of Providence and Queens (Myers Park).
That was it...PROVIDENCE Road, not PARK Road where the great burger place was located.
Mullman, being in the area nearly 40 years, perhaps you recall a small place all the people in the MP area liked getting their burgers. (Unless I'm confused, it seems as though they had small bistro tables set up for outside dining during nice weather.) It was located on Providence and not too far from Cherokee Road...same side in fact. I remember visiting friends in a condo with CHEROKEE written on the side of their building. This burger-bistro place was not far from it. But, this was way back in the 70's.
Anyway, it's bugging me that I can't recall the name of the burger place and I wonder if it's still in existance. Anyone know???
I'm trying to figure out how I can become a snob! Heck, we live in a community on Lake Norman. I even grew up "up north" but yet I don't make a scene about how we did things back there. My family just assimilates to the area each time we relocate. I guess I've been too low key and hospitable. Where did I go wrong?
I'm trying to figure out how I can become a snob! Heck, we live in a community on Lake Norman. I even grew up "up north" but yet I don't make a scene about how we did things back there. My family just assimilates to the area each time we relocate. I guess I've been too low key and hospitable. Where did I go wrong?
LOL!!! Yep. Part of that "Lake Norman Crowd." No one forwarded you the memo on how to lose friends and alienate yourself, I suppose!
As for where you went wrong I guess you were too darn hospitable and fit in too well!! Can't be a snob and be nice to everyone . . . That would not highlight your "specialness."
You might as well face it: Guess you are not snob material, Stripes. (Thank goodness!!!)
I'm the OP and just spent the last 10 minutes reading everyone's posts... I won't comment other than say sadly it is what I expected from most people.
Most of you seem interested in what I do so here is the summary: I dropped out of high school because I had a passion for investment real estate and finance. Skipped the college route to start working right away. I quickly made a name for myself by 21 doing some of the largest apartment portfolio deals in Upstate, NY. I then started working with a hotel developer who was developing casino's for Indian reservations and owns about 4,000 apartment units in NY and FL. We did very very well, especially when REITS could buy with their "funny money" (shares trading at 50x earnings. I worked hard to find the business and he had the respected name to establish our client base.
In that time I also followed a passion for powersports and hired two best friends who enjoy the same to start a powersports (motorcyles, ATV's, snowmobiles, watercraft) finance company. At first I would self fund with brokerage earnings and keet the notes with in the company. However, we started doing so much volume at extreme profits that HSBC allowed me to be one of only three companies in the U.S.to broker such loans to them. We were doing nearly $10,000 a day in profit for over a year and a half. GE Finance soon followed which increased our profits having another market to buy sub-prime motor paper.
I follow the markets and saw the "easy credit days" ending. I sold the last of the notes I could and put a "decent" amount of cash into the safest place possible at the time, muni-bonds. I also bought a Ferrari and a few other luxury cars (spent less than $700,000 so I don't think it was living beyond means whatsoever). That included all spending from clothing, to watches, and vacations, etc. The rest was placed with a Smith Barney broker and in secure bonds.
I then came up with the idea to rent out the luxury cars and started an exotic car rental company. I won't mention the name because this post will hit high ranking in google but you can find it by googling "exotic car rentals phoenix" or like terms. The company starts with a "S" next word "T" and last word "Rentals".
I just accepted an offer to sell the rental business to a traditional car rental company everyone knows who is seeking a client base to enter the exotic market, and I plan on investing in powersports / watercraft once again. I'm also learning all I can about Nascar and considering launching a race team. The Carolina's have very lenient lending regulations, of course Charlotte is the home of Nascar, and I want to get back to the East Coast.
If any one cares enough they can research my name and what I've done by 26 by googling the info above. I just want to live and associate with other like minded people. I've never met a postal worker I could call up at 8pm, call a charter company, and be in Las Vegas by 1am... That's the reason for wanting to live near like minded people... I spent a lot of time in LA and for personal vices it's not for me... Areas like Palm Beach are to seasonal and I don't have the means yet to go from NYC, to the Hamptons, Palm Beach, and Europe to run the social circuit at proper times.
BTW, I have no debt what so ever. I carry an AMEX that is paid in full each month and a Visa debit (incase AMEX is not accepted or I need ATM access). I have no other debt whatsoever that is not tied to my business. I'm not worth $10M but most can easily figure out what my company assets are worth alone, without ever knowing what is in my securities accounts..
I'm the OP and just spent the last 10 minutes reading everyone's posts... I won't comment other than say sadly it is what I expected from most people.
Most of you seem interested in what I do so here is the summary: I dropped out of high school because I had a passion for investment real estate and finance. Skipped the college route to start working right away. I quickly made a name for myself by 21 doing some of the largest apartment portfolio deals in Upstate, NY. I then started working with a hotel developer who was developing casino's for Indian reservations and owns about 4,000 apartment units in NY and FL. We did very very well, especially when REITS could buy with their "funny money" (shares trading at 50x earnings. I worked hard to find the business and he had the respected name to establish our client base.
In that time I also followed a passion for powersports and hired two best friends who enjoy the same to start a powersports (motorcyles, ATV's, snowmobiles, watercraft) finance company. At first I would self fund with brokerage earnings and keet the notes with in the company. However, we started doing so much volume at extreme profits that HSBC allowed me to be one of only three companies in the U.S.to broker such loans to them. We were doing nearly $10,000 a day in profit for over a year and a half. GE Finance soon followed which increased our profits having another market to buy sub-prime motor paper.
I follow the markets and saw the "easy credit days" ending. I sold the last of the notes I could and put a "decent" amount of cash into the safest place possible at the time, muni-bonds. I also bought a Ferrari and a few other luxury cars (spent less than $700,000 so I don't think it was living beyond means whatsoever). That included all spending from clothing, to watches, and vacations, etc. The rest was placed with a Smith Barney broker and in secure bonds.
I then came up with the idea to rent out the luxury cars and started an exotic car rental company. I won't mention the name because this post will hit high ranking in google but you can find it by googling "exotic car rentals phoenix" or like terms. The company starts with a "S" next word "T" and last word "Rentals".
I just accepted an offer to sell the rental business to a traditional car rental company everyone knows who is seeking a client base to enter the exotic market, and I plan on investing in powersports / watercraft once again. I'm also learning all I can about Nascar and considering launching a race team. The Carolina's have very lenient lending regulations, of course Charlotte is the home of Nascar, and I want to get back to the East Coast.
If any one cares enough they can research my name and what I've done by 26 by googling the info above. I just want to live and associate with other like minded people. I've never met a postal worker I could call up at 8pm, call a charter company, and be in Las Vegas by 1am... That's the reason for wanting to live near like minded people... I spent a lot of time in LA and for personal vices it's not for me... Areas like Palm Beach are to seasonal and I don't have the means yet to go from NYC, to the Hamptons, Palm Beach, and Europe to run the social circuit at proper times.
BTW, I have no debt what so ever. I carry an AMEX that is paid in full each month and a Visa debit (incase AMEX is not accepted or I need ATM access). I have no other debt whatsoever that is not tied to my business. I'm not worth $10M but most can easily figure out what my company assets are worth alone, without ever knowing what is in my securities accounts..
Hats,
I think you're a fraud playing with people on CD, while living vicariously at your parents home watching a show on the Travel Channel about "Mega Yachts". However, you play a good bs artist, and do a decent job of bragging about situations you have indirectly been exposed to through conversations, if half of what you say might be true. The nouveau riche mentality (that's you) lacks significant humility and the empathy of an experienced self-actualized person that, in plain terms, you are all about the destination and not the journey. Your confessed worth of under "$10M" and "I'm also learning all I can about Nascar and considering launching a race team" proves to me even more that you have no idea what you are talking about. I work in the airlines now, but previously I flew extremely wealthy clientele and I learned a lot about of how they communicate and interact with us folks down here that are scratching out living. You're not well-off, rich or wealthy, not even close. Those folks don't speak in public about their assets, and they are smart to do so. What you are is a hollow shell of a person, clinging to a lonely social life through judging others on a superficial basis living a tonier materialistic looking glass existence. Yes, the devil does, in deed, wear Prada. Can't help it, your bs reminds of the character Meryl Streep portrayed.
Your blown autobiography for the world and God to see, endears to me how thankful I am that I grew up a dirt poor southern country boy. The memories and life education I have from those times, I would never share with a person of your character, even if you became an accidental neighbor.
I think other good folks here are going to rip your story wide open...
I'm the OP and just spent the last 10 minutes reading everyone's posts... I won't comment other than say sadly it is what I expected from most people.
Most of you seem interested in what I do so here is the summary: I dropped out of high school because I had a passion for investment real estate and finance. Skipped the college route to start working right away. I quickly made a name for myself by 21 doing some of the largest apartment portfolio deals in Upstate, NY. I then started working with a hotel developer who was developing casino's for Indian reservations and owns about 4,000 apartment units in NY and FL. We did very very well, especially when REITS could buy with their "funny money" (shares trading at 50x earnings. I worked hard to find the business and he had the respected name to establish our client base.
In that time I also followed a passion for powersports and hired two best friends who enjoy the same to start a powersports (motorcyles, ATV's, snowmobiles, watercraft) finance company. At first I would self fund with brokerage earnings and keet the notes with in the company. However, we started doing so much volume at extreme profits that HSBC allowed me to be one of only three companies in the U.S.to broker such loans to them. We were doing nearly $10,000 a day in profit for over a year and a half. GE Finance soon followed which increased our profits having another market to buy sub-prime motor paper.
I follow the markets and saw the "easy credit days" ending. I sold the last of the notes I could and put a "decent" amount of cash into the safest place possible at the time, muni-bonds. I also bought a Ferrari and a few other luxury cars (spent less than $700,000 so I don't think it was living beyond means whatsoever). That included all spending from clothing, to watches, and vacations, etc. The rest was placed with a Smith Barney broker and in secure bonds.
I then came up with the idea to rent out the luxury cars and started an exotic car rental company. I won't mention the name because this post will hit high ranking in google but you can find it by googling "exotic car rentals phoenix" or like terms. The company starts with a "S" next word "T" and last word "Rentals".
I just accepted an offer to sell the rental business to a traditional car rental company everyone knows who is seeking a client base to enter the exotic market, and I plan on investing in powersports / watercraft once again. I'm also learning all I can about Nascar and considering launching a race team. The Carolina's have very lenient lending regulations, of course Charlotte is the home of Nascar, and I want to get back to the East Coast.
If any one cares enough they can research my name and what I've done by 26 by googling the info above. I just want to live and associate with other like minded people. I've never met a postal worker I could call up at 8pm, call a charter company, and be in Las Vegas by 1am... That's the reason for wanting to live near like minded people... I spent a lot of time in LA and for personal vices it's not for me... Areas like Palm Beach are to seasonal and I don't have the means yet to go from NYC, to the Hamptons, Palm Beach, and Europe to run the social circuit at proper times.
BTW, I have no debt what so ever. I carry an AMEX that is paid in full each month and a Visa debit (incase AMEX is not accepted or I need ATM access). I have no other debt whatsoever that is not tied to my business. I'm not worth $10M but most can easily figure out what my company assets are worth alone, without ever knowing what is in my securities accounts..
Sadly Adam, your bio is of a person "chasing a market". From the dates and the businesses you entered it seems to me you "enter the station when the train has already left".
One tip I'd like to give you. Don't be telling people you don't have the wherewithall to make it to the Hamptons. Teeny boppers,people w/zero bux, shares, as in 8 to a house, Wall Street has beens, etc. all go to the Hamptons. It's not a very special place that you should have as a target. Same as what I said in my opening para., "That train too has already left the station"
Good luck,
j
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That was it...PROVIDENCE Road, not PARK Road where the great burger place was located. 
I guess you were too darn hospitable and fit in too well!! Can't be a snob and be nice to everyone . . . That would not highlight your "specialness." 
