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A mint and beautiful 86 deluxe around '78 for $3000. A civil war gun that I never bothered to look at, that turned out to be a brand new Maynard Carbine for $350.

Not buying $32 gold or 500 AR's about 6 months ago.

I'd rather sell the gold than AR's. I can see a shop trying to buy an AR for around 500. It's hard to negotiate much on gold a 1 oz. coin price is posted daily.

I had the opportunity to lay my ex- wifes sister before the divorce and didn't do it.....

The one opportunity I WOULD be kicking my self in the azz for missing ... Uh, it's one I actually went for.

In 1986, I found a little IPO in something called Operating Systems for PCs ... I could see that coming. The company was going public and was run by two guys named Bill and Paul Something.

I bought 100sh of MSFT on the Initial Public Offering. It's split nine times since and I've never sold a single share.

Same story with HOG in 1987. I bought 100sh. It's split a little . Never sold a share.

Opportunities like this are still with us today. You simply have to do the research and take the risk.

It is laughable to read the gloom-n-doomers with their bunker mentality. The world is not coming to an end and Chicken Little was not right.

God Bless,

Steve

I like msft, I bought some when I read they were putting like a billion in the bank per month.

Oh yeah and Ebay offered us all a hundred shares when they went public. Should of done that.

2 Instances hit roughly about the same time....

My aunt was the original owner of a 1978 Pontiac Firebird. It had the 400(6.6L) in it with around 48,000 miles. She would have sold it to me for $4000.

60 acres of land that was owned by a friend of my girlfriends father. He was having tax problems and needed $13,000.

I was fresh out of school at the time, my debt was 200% of my yearly GDP...couldn't swing for either.

I missed 40 acres at $100 per, the ground is essentially useless for anything except raising wild turkeys and giving deer a place to nap.And it is on a blacktop road.............

But, at the time I just couldn't/wouldn't swing the deal, and I'm still kicking myself in the pants over it.

I also had to pass on another 40 acres, at $1000 per, but it had a house, garage and other outbuildings, still occupied (not run down), but didn't do it. It gets locked up when the creek floods, a not uncommon situation, and it just wasn't going to work. Luckily, my nephew bought it and it's still in the family.

In 1991, on my honeymoon, we were in southern Montana, looking at cheap investment property.
We looked a 5 acres on the banks of the Madison river, just north of Yellowstone.
50 grand.
We didn�t want the payments, so we talked it over and decided to invest in the stock market instead.
My 20 grand turned into 30, then went down to 10, and now it�s back up to 30.
The property went from 50 grand to upwards of 2 million, and is probably still worth a million today.
In 1991, I had never herd the term �Orvis Blue Ribbon trout stream�.

In 1946 or 47, just after the war, my father was offered a chance to buy into a small, start up company that sliced potatoes real thin, fried them and sold them as a snack.
What a crazy idea, nobody will ever buy that, he turned it down.

Frito Lay.

A couple of hundred bucks back then would be worth tens of millions today.

I was racing professional motocross and supercross in the late 80's. And I pissed away a chance to play baseball. At the time they loved switch hitting little guys that were dumb enough to crowd the plate. Oh well... Live and learn.

In 1972 I was in the Army and just getting out of basic training I was offered a direct transfer to Helicopter pilot school- I guess it turns out I had the highest PT scores in the unit. Vietnam was still going on and I was looking forward to my next duty station (Fort Lewis) so I said no, like a 19 year old dummy. I would have loved to fly choppers then and now....

1 1/2 years later, I received orders for Ranger school and my transfer to Germany the same day. I asked to go to Germany then transfer to Ranger school and everyone said "fine". Went to Germany and found out if it wasn't in writing, it wasn't going to happen. I turn 60 this year and I still kick myself for that stupid decision.

Last but not least- while at Fort Lewis I met up with a guy downtown Tacoma one day. He was driving an AC Cobra and we chatted for awhile about the car. He offered to sell it to me for $6500 on the spot. See above, 20 years old, on PFC's wages and couldn't figure out how to swing a loan at the time. That car would be worth at least $400K now.

Bob

Had a chance to do R+D field work for an AF civilian contractor when I separated and always have wondered how it would have changed my life had I accepted the position.

We bought our land here in 62. 100 acres at 75 an acre. Decent enough deal at the time.

But in 1985 just out of high school and not married yet but neither of us with much money.... there was 100 acres out in Rocksprings, end of a county road... 100 bucks an acre... what a dumbass.

And then not so many years ago I found out to late a friend was selling almost 400 acres in south Texas around 400 an acre... that I'd have pounced on if the buyers had renegged....

I could have bought a 3 story 40 room frat house located just off the UCB campus for $100,000 or so in 1977. A non-profit was moving out after leasing and they had option to buy it at $85,000.