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"So, the goal would be that you make this $2,500 a month in rent. you don't get to keep all of it. But now, after paying a property taxes, insurance, maintenance, management fees, and vacancy cost, you might be left with, let's just call it, $1,000 a month of profit. That means over the course of a year, you made $12,000."

"The way that I look at real estate because my goal is cash flow. Is I don't care about the property value after buying it. If it goes up, great. If it goes down, oh well. My goal is cash flow because I can predict cash flow and I can calculate cash flow and that tells me how much I can use to pay my expenses and pay my bills."

"So, it doesn't matter if you're making $10,000 a year or 10 million a year. you can use the deduction against it to negate your taxable income."

"As a disclaimer, I'm personally invested in SCHD. This [snorts] is a fund that's just investing in high dividend paying companies that are strong companies in the United States that are hoping to see the dividend growth, but also hopefully stock value growth as well."

"At the time of recording this video, VNQ is paying out around 3.8%."

"VMI at the time of recording this video is paying out a dividend of around 4%."

"At the time of me recording this video is paying out around 4% a year in dividends, meaning interest income from this."

"VW OB is paying out around 6% a year in dividends at the time of recording this video."

"EMLC, which is also paying out around 6% a year in dividends. This is an ETF that's giving exposure to emerging market governments in their local currency, which means this is going to be the highest risk and volatility because now you're not getting that protection of being hedged or backed by the United States dollar."

"VXUS, this is an ETF that's going to give you exposure to the total international market. This is a fund created by Vanguard that's going to give you exposure to thousands of international stocks."

"So two ETFs that give you exposure to these emerging markets are VWO and EM. VWO will give you exposure to countries like China, Brazil, Taiwan, South Africa. And EM created by Eyesshares is focused on large and midcap companies in these emerging markets."

"A couple examples here are EFA and Va. EFA is an ETF focused on large and midcap companies in countries that are not the United States and Canada. And then VA is a fund created by Vanguard giving exposure to again the developed markets which are focused also on large mid but also small cap companies in these foreign countries but more specifically in Europe and the Pacific area."

"People invest in trading cards. They invest in cars and watches and other sorts of things which I've never put my money in for an investment purpose. But when it comes to speculative assets that I've actually had experience with, that would be [snorts] Bitcoin and startups."

"Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, it's speculative. Okay? People want to talk about a lot of things. It's speculative. And I'm saying this as somebody who has been investing in Bitcoin and crypto for since 2016 or so since Bitcoin was around $3,3500 a coin."

"Just like with Bitcoin and crypto, startups are speculative. You're probably going to lose money in a lot of startups. I'm telling you from experience. I've invested in many startups that have gone bust and bankrupt. If you're going to invest in startups, understand that yes, there's a lot of profit potential. If you can invest in a company before it goes public, before it gets acquired, you can make a huge payday. But if you invest in a company that goes bankrupt, which eight out of 10 startups go bankrupt, and a lot of these startups you invest in are going to go bankrupt. You lose everything in that investment."

"BOTZ is an ETF that gives you exposure to robotics and artificial intelligence stocks. This has 52 companies in this ETF or if you wanted to invest in CHAT. This is an ETF that's giving exposure to generative AI and technology ETFs. This one has about 46 companies in its holdings."

"SkY is an ETF that is giving you exposure to cloud computing companies. You could think of that kind of like the backbone of the AI industry. This has about 64 companies in its holding, but again, giving you a different way of exposure into the tech space."

"So if concerns about the dollar and inflation and the economy go away, gold prices might go back down."

"But you can invest in bonds, loans to foreign countries and foreign governments as a way to potentially boost some of your returns."

"We talked about how you can also invest in international stocks as a way to get diversification outside of the United States."

"We talked about investing technology because of amount of money going into the tax sector and many different ways that you can play it."