The Ren Men Show Episode 29 – “Investment Club”

August 18, 2010

in Episodes, Family/Friends, Interviews, Lifestyle Design, Passive Income, Replace Assumptions

A web video blog about lifestyle design, passive income, real estate, vending machines, used cars, and eustress challenges. Grant and Alan revisit the Investment Club. We meet the members and run some numbers to see how it is doing. It is game 4 of the ‘Ren-lympics,’ Grant leads 2-1 but Alan is zoning in to sweep the final events. But can Grant hold on to the lead?

Runtime: 25:30
A quick rundown of the episode:

  • Welcome to Episode 29.
  • Catch up with the Investment Club.
  • 160 shares – JPM at $37.72
  • 29 shares – AAPL at $249.32
  • Game Four of the ‘Ren-lympics’ – Texas Hold ‘em
  • Chalk Talk – What would you do?
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    1 Lou Mindar August 18, 2010 at 2:37 pm

    Unofficial Renlympics scoreboard:

    Alan – 2
    Grant 2

    Only three events left. Anything can happen!

    If I only had one day, what would I do? I would go to the lake with my family. I wouldn’t work. I wouldn’t worry. I wouldn’t stress about anything. I’d just enjoy time with my wife and kids. Maybe everyday should be a little more like that. Hmmm…

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    2 The Ren Men August 19, 2010 at 8:14 am

    Sweet,
    In our world we can that an epiphany, my friend…

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    3 DScottG August 18, 2010 at 3:11 pm

    Last day: Basically record my important thoughts for children/wife. No relaxing – just hard work and giving to those that I love for the feeling of accomplishment/achievement.

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    4 The Ren Men August 19, 2010 at 8:14 am

    It’s all about the love…

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    5 MCE August 18, 2010 at 5:17 pm

    This is what I see in my head when I saw Lou’s last name. I pronounce it MEN-Daar. I hope that’s right.

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    6 Lou Mindar August 19, 2010 at 1:01 pm

    Hey, that’s me!

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    7 Micah August 18, 2010 at 5:18 pm

    I like DScottG’s response. With one day I would make sure to visit family, maybe record a video for my kids. Make every arrangement possible so that those I love would be taken care of when I’m gone.

    I would end the day by spending a quiet evening with my family and talk with them and encourage them.

    Another option, for a couple hours, would be to throw a Deathday Party (like a birthday party). I would try to get everyone I care about to come and have one last hurrah. I would want to make it a happy day. You might as well end on a good note.

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    8 The Ren Men August 19, 2010 at 8:17 am

    We couldn’t have said it better ourselves. No one on their last day, would be thinking ‘man, I wish I had taken that raise back in ‘04 or man, I’m glad I worked those 75 hour-weeks for five straight years’…It’s all about Livin’ the Dream…and the Dream is what you make it…

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    9 Sunny August 18, 2010 at 6:25 pm

    An investment club….what a killer idea!

    Plus, an epic hold’em game… There’s very little that gets me as revved up as a good game of no-limit…You boys better tighten up your game for when I come down!

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    10 The Ren Men August 19, 2010 at 8:18 am

    We take all comers…We’d hate to see you go home broke and have to hitch-hike back up to the North Pole…

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    11 Sunny August 20, 2010 at 6:00 pm

    Somehow “lol” doesn’t describe the preposterous sounding laugh I just let out after reading that….

    You should probably start planning how you’ll explain to your office manager that your real estate portfolio took such a major hit after my weekend visit…

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    12 Will August 19, 2010 at 12:35 am

    When you buy and sell stocks do you actually go through a broker or do you use such websites as scottrade or fidelity?

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    13 The Ren Men August 19, 2010 at 8:22 am

    Good question…We use two different websites for our transactions…we use Zecco.com, for personal…they charge $4.95 a trade for accounts with less than $25,000…$25,000+ you get 10 free trades a month…We use Scottrade.com for our investment club…Zecco doesn’t allow entities to buy stocks— only personal accounts…we were using Tradeking.com for awhile but stopped, and we really don’t know why we stopped…We’d recommend their site as well…

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