How can Investors make a difference for the Hurricane Victims?
Our City has a local Real Estate Investment meeting every month and I will be taking donations there for the American Red Cross.
I am wondering how many other Real Estate Investment groups will do the same.
Together we can too make a difference 
We did a bottle water drive here last week! I also but up 4 vacant properties here in Colorado!
its nothing personal but I do not want to help, I
want to know how I can profit from this this, just like
profiting from the hi oil prices etc. I have a house for
sale in La. Luckily, no major damage, but I want to profit from Katrina !
fogdryer :-[
Wow fogdryer I have seen investors profit from greed and fall from greed! Fortunately for the caring and sharing community I have seen double the amounts of falls. Anyone who can come and say I don’t want to help and only want to profit deserves to fall. I hope they accidentally Bulldoze your house that is for sale and your insurance won’t cover it!
Don’t get me wrong I could show you how to help and profit at the same time! But if you have no desire to help I have no desire to share how to profit!
Have a great day.
Robb
Wow. That is sad fogdryer. Very sad. Almost “trollish”, but sad, nonetheless.
Good luck to you in the future, I have a feeling you will need it.
What an idiot!!! :bash:
Maybe you should change your name to DOGdryer, what a dog you are.
Hey Robb buy the bulldozer and I’ll be glad to run it over!!!
John
There are about 1,000 ways you can profit from this tragedy and I’m sure Robb can name them all. But he sure as hell isn’t gonna share them with someone so selfish.
Remember the phrase “What helps people, helps business.”
fogdryer,
As a Louisiana resident, I am OFFENDED! I’m seeing and dealing with people that literally have nothing left but the clothing that they’re wearing…maybe if you wait a minute, they’ll go to the shower and you can get that too!
DOWN YOU GO:
:flush:
Keith
Frog, what a horrible thing to say. You should always want to be better than:
Being better than mean stepping up to the plate and pitching in where ever and however you can. Your businesses will not survive with that kind of attitude. That’s a shame.
I would like to profit too, but not at the expense of other people’s livlihoods.
I’ve got 2 rental houses and my husband and I have decided to waive the deposit and we will work with any evacuees that need a place to stay.
It is time for the top 5 most worthless items in America.
#5 Beanie babies.
#4 Pet Rocks
#3 The image of Jesus in PB&J Sandwich
#2 The gum on the bottom of my shoe
#1 FOGDRYER
How can you even think of taking adavantage of your fellow americans in this situation. You are almost as bad as the ambulance driver who was stealing the corpses credit cards. :grim:
You know FOG, you are selfish human being. If you don’t want to help just shut your mouth. Don’t you have a heart. But you know what if that is your attitude you will never ever be successful in life.
Hey,
Fogdryer: Remember this truth - what goes around comes around, or as Somebody else said (and He should know) you reap what you sow. Geez, you are a real idiot.
Peace (except to you),
Richard
There are so many ways to PROFIT and HELP simultaneously. Are you really only out for yourself Fog?
Your best leads come from REFERRALS. If you treat people like you don’t care you will be marketing your whole life. If you help everyone, they will bring all of their friends to you to get help, too.
FOGDRYER… you want profit? Congratulations! 'cause you’ve just profited from REIClub’s “Most Hated Sh**-List”
Well, I guess REI Club has sufficiently beat up FogDryer, so I won’t pile on. In fact, I’d like to suggest that if anyone wants to profit from the Hurricane that they build an Oil Refinery. Heaven knows we need a few more! If we want to be mad at anyone, I’d suggest that we look at the oil companies who are reaping record profits. FogDryer doesn’t want to help, but the oil companies actually ARE profitting BIG TIME from this tragedy and the people they are hurting the most are the poor.
Having said all that, if anyone wants to help the hurricane victims, I’d suggest donating money, blood, clothes, etc to a good charity. I would NOT suggest donating or renting out your properties to someone without references just because they are victims of the hurricane. To do so would be placing your business in great jeopardy for emotional reasons. Am I the only one who saw many of the good folks of New Orleans looting everything in sight? Or how about the 3,000 convicted sex offenders that have disappeared from the area? I’m not saying not to help, but rather to be smart in doing so. It is hard enough to make a profit renting properties when you can do a good credit check and criminal background check. Without doing these checks, you’re playing Russian Roulette with your business. BE VERY CAREFUL! Remember REI is a business! By all means help all you can, but don’t risk your business in the process. Without your business, you won’t be donating anything in the future!!!
Mike
As some of you know I to live on the Gulf Cost, Galveston Island TX to be exact and to hear anyone wanting to profit from such a disatser, misfourtune and not even think about helping in any way…well Ill just say “SOME PEOPLE SHOULD JUST BURN IN HELL” I’m shcoked that any AMERICAN would think that way you should be a shame of yourself I’m a shame of you.
I must say that I am also shocked - not by FogDryer but rather shocked at the anger and hatred on this list. FogDryer is now “Hated” and should “burn in hell” all because he doesn’t want to help and WANTS to profit from the Hurricane. I’ve gotta tell you that I think all of this anger is a little hypocritical. Don’t we as investors benefit from the sad circumstances of others every day (ie foreclosures, divorces, deaths, etc)? YES, we do. We make ourselves feel good about it by chanting that we always do “win-win” deals, but that’s not the reality for the person that has just lost their home.
The bottom line is that capitalism works. Profit is not a bad word and in fact will do more to help the victims of the hurricane than anything else. All the TV hype will soon die down and the hurricane will be all but forgotten. Entrepreneurs will move into the area and rebuild it. They won’t do it for some noble cause but rather because they will profit from it. These hated entrepreneurs will create jobs, pay taxes, and replace all the destroyed homes, businesses, and casinos. They will do it for money but they will actually be performing a great service.
So, before you cast stones at FogDryer, I think a little introspective is in order. If you’re buying foreclosures, REOs, estate sale properties, or any other distressed properties - you’re profitting from the personal disasters of others.
So maybe we’re just as “bad” as FogDryer.
Mike
Hey,
I believe the sticking point is that Fogdryer said “I don’t want to help” but wants to profit like “hi [sic] oil prices.” Now, admittedly even medical doctors and other medical professionals “profit” from the physical illnesses and misfortunes of others. The clergy “profit” from the spiritual maladies of others. Educatiors “profit” from the ignorance of their students. So, every service or human services industry individual “profits” off the misfortune of another. Yet, they are giving something in return and are often thought of as altruistic professionals. There is, at least, a veneer of caring and compassion in the worst of them and a core of caring and compassion in the best of them. Fogdryer has stripped away the veneer and has shown no care and compassion. Perhaps he mistated but he wasn’t misinterpreted.
Peace,
Richard
If Fogdryer Lived in NO maybe he would have been one of the 1,000’s who did not escape the tragity that happened and we wouldn’t be having this discussion…so as for me I’m moving on and hoping nothing but the worse for “DOGDryer”
Love each other like family and we all live happily ever after
Rick
Propertymanager.
When you said.
I would NOT suggest donating or renting out your properties to someone without references just because they are victims of the hurricane. To do so would be placing your business in great jeopardy for emotional reasons. Am I the only one who saw many of the good folks of New Orleans looting everything in sight? Or how about the 3,000 convicted sex offenders that have disappeared from the area? I’m not saying not to help, but rather to be smart in doing so. It is hard enough to make a profit renting properties when you can do a good credit check and criminal background check. Without doing these checks, you’re playing Russian Roulette with your business. BE VERY CAREFUL! Remember REI is a business! By all means help all you can, but don’t risk your business in the process. Without your business, you won’t be donating anything in the future!!!
Am I the only one that has seen the mothers and fathers looking for their kids? Family members looking for loved ones? Last time I checked the population of that area was higher then 3,000 and I think to clump them all into the same category is selfish and wrong. If your town went through the same you would see the same reaction there as well. I do not care where you are at any big city would see the same. The key is to be a good judge of character and see their qualities. Let me ask this simple question don’t you think renters that have good credit are few and far between anyway? If renters had good credit they would be buyers and not renters unless they are new to the area and/or are not staying long. I take my chances everyday and profit by them. Not to mention they all are grateful. Give someone a chance and let him or her prove you wrong. When you started your credit bureau did someone else not give you a chance. Or when you rented your first apartment Did you have great credit? Or did Mommy and Daddy cosign?
Also quote this from you sir…
I must say that I am also shocked - not by FogDryer but rather shocked at the anger and hatred on this list. FogDryer is now “Hated” and should “burn in hell” all because he doesn’t want to help and WANTS to profit from the Hurricane. I’ve gotta tell you that I think all of this anger is a little hypocritical. Don’t we as investors benefit from the sad circumstances of others every day (ie foreclosures, divorces, deaths, etc)? YES, we do. We make ourselves feel good about it by chanting that we always do “win-win” deals, but that’s not the reality for the person that has just lost their home.
I think after reading that you as an investor do not create win~win deals. On the other hand look at it like this I can name at least 98% of the people that I helped last year that would do repeat business with my company and feel they were treated fair and I created a win~win situation. Maybe you are going about this REI Business all wrong and you need to hit reality.
Then when you said
So maybe we’re just as “bad” as FogDryer.
Maybe we aren’t but maybe you are! Do not clump everyone in the same category as yourself!
Thanks and have a great day,
Robb