Basement 51

If you should ever venture forth into the gaming genre known as MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) let this article be a guide to how to deal with the characters you will encounter there.  When you play an online game, you take the role of a character.  You will most likely be given a variety of choices, class, sex, race, etc.

This article is only here to cover one choice…sex.  You will be given the chance to chose whether you will play a male character or a female character.  Let it be a forewarning that most of the female characters you will encounter are played by men/boys/males (I have seen reported statistics as high as 90%, although I would honestly guess that it is probably closer to 65-70%)

So if you don’t play these games, you might be wondering to yourself, why?

Well it’s pretty simple.  In the early days of online gaming Read the rest of this entry

Ok, you may not know, but I am a very active real estate investor.  It’s my day job so to speak (even though it’s really a 24-7 job).  I honestly can’t say that real estate is my passion, it’s not.  I enjoy it at times, like when I get paid for example.  It’s not uncommon to earn $10k for just wholesaling a property (wholesaling is simply finding a property and then connecting that seller to an end buyer…so in a way it’s sort of like a finders fee).  If we actually rehab the property, well that profit can be anywhere from $35k-$200k or more.  Of course it has a level of risk involved, but we try to limit that as much as possible.

So anyway, I have pretty much devoted all of my time working on real estate these days.  I’m not really marketing any of my other services in any aggressive sort of way.  And as of righting this right now, I’m sort of wondering if I have chosen the right path.  You see, my real estate team has just lost a wholesale deal that should have closed (transfered ownership/processed, etc) yesterday.

Ok, well we lose wholesale deals all the time.  I mean if you can’t connect the seller to a buyer, well there isn’t much you can do.  But with this deal, we HAD a buyer.  A buyer who said, “no matter what the appraisal comes in at, we will be able to go to close on Friday”.  It was a slam dunk deal done situation.

Well apparently not. Read the rest of this entry

Ok, so if you are here and expecting the old Basement51 look, well I have some bad news.  It’s gone.  Dead.  When I tried to log in to keep it up to date, and well I was actually gonna post something, I found out that the site was haxxored.  I wasn’t able to log in under any account and it kept redirecting me to a bogus site.  Weird huh?

So I simply took a sledgehammer to it and now Basement51 is a new site again.  I figured it was time for a face lift anyway, and while I did not want to lose any of the old stuff (there was a lot of good articles etc…) I felt that I needed a place to just be a goob.  I also felt that I needed a place where I could simply bitch about life, investing, gaming, whatever freely and without anyone judging me.  Well ok, I admit you will be judging what I write, but honestly I don’t give a shit.  You will either agree with what I write or you won’t.  To each their own.  But if you don’t agree with anything I write, or if you find you agree with everything I write you should seek help immediately.

Anyway, here we go.  Rebuilding the awesome site that was once Basement 51 again.