$200K: Spend it or lose it?

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Distribute it amongst the poor.
 
I'd buy as much Cocaine as I could. Then turn around and make a cool $750,000 - $1,000,000 on the streets. :sly:
 
Hmmm... buy an extra engine, a turbo, a limited slip differential, new tires and wheels, leather Recaro seats, a Honda Fit (for commuting days), an LPG conversion kit for both cars, 100% ethanol compatible hoses :lol:... oh, the works.

Buy a year's supply of baby formula, too.

And then the 150,000 that's left over goes to the next bum I see.
 
live4speed
I'm assuming you can't put the 200k into a bank acocunt or building society, because then the cash is still cash and will be taken away from you, so I'd buy a house, then turn it into flats and rent it out. I wouldn't buy a fast car because even after the initial purchese you still have to pay large sum's of money to keep it and run it etc, I'd love an Aston Martin, but I coul;dn't afford to own one, after buying one, the insurace would be stupidly high talking a good few grand a year on it's own, and then should it ever get broken into or bumped into, the cost of repairs would kill me. I'd buy property and rent it out.
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Sure you can. It doesn't matter, the whole point is that you have to do something with it before the gov. tries to take it away.:)
 
Anderton Prime
I think we need some clarification as to what currency this is. There's no way $200,000 US would buy both those cars. The Gallardo's MSRP is US$175,000. And an M3 is more expensive than US$25,000. Plus we'll have to figure in taxes!
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Good point, I thought the Gallardo was less. Ok then, I'd go with something new (again). A M3, a XBox 360, Burnout Legends and Revenge for the 360, a 7 String G-Tar, and all Metallica CD's known to man. What's left I'll use on tuning my M3.
 
With this place just around the corner, getting rid of $200K shouldn't be difficult!

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First: I would go to every game store in my town, and buy every M rated game I could find and give them out to anyone under 17. For free of course.

Sencond: I would hide the money in a suicase, and bury it, and when the ''Man'' came, I would deny ever knowing about the money. Yeah.
 
*McLaren*
Sure you can. It doesn't matter, the whole point is that you have to do something with it before the gov. tries to take it away.:)
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I'd probably still invest in property, buy a building, turn it into flats, get say 1200 a month in rent at 300 per month each from 4 people, over 5 years that's a gross of 72k, also the building by then will probably be worth about 20% more than you paid for it. so say you pay 180k for the building, and 20k turning it into flats or if they're already flats, rennovation. 20% ontop of 180k is 216k, add 72k to that, that's a gross of 288k, tak tax off the 72k and that leaves that at roughly 50k so in total you'd have 266k in that property, another 5 years and another 20% on the price (over the original price anyway) and another 72k, and it's a great investment. And perfectly legal, but the real money comes when you use your alue to get a mortgage on a second property, then a third etc. If I had the cash to do it, I'd go into property tomorrow.
 
Knowing me, i'd probably spend most of it on cola. Whatever's left, i wouldn't need to worry about since i'd probably be dead from drinking so much of it...
 
Smallhorses
With this place just around the corner, getting rid of $200K shouldn't be difficult!

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Someone made a good point about an expensive, fast street car being too expensive in the long run. But that 1980 F1 race car fantasy juntion has looks awful nice. I'd spend the last 5,000 on fuel.
 
when i get the 200k, im already on my feet with a decent living and my spouse doing so as well, so up keep wont be a problem.

id buy a BMW CSL, M3, and a M5...thatd make me happy and itd fill up my garage

my everyday car would be the M3, my wife would drive (and really wants in real life) the M5, and the CSL would be my track car and weekend driver :)

that sounds to me to be the life...wouldnt it be nice???
 
I think the question was referring to you being as you are, not some fantasy future where your the MD of a global corporation or anything like that.
 
Buy a thousand lottery tickets with it! jk jk

I'd get a Mustang GT and spend as much money as I wish on upgrades :D
 
I'd buy 2 houses and rent them out to people. Have income the rest of my life. I could choose if I wanted to work just for extra cash.
 
I'd have a 3-way with Jenna Jameson and Krystal Steal... and spend the remainder buying condoms...

that deserves rep!
 
I'd buy me sum pigs, and have free pork for the rest of my life - just think of all that cracklin'
 
Diego440
I'd have a 3-way with Jenna Jameson and Krystal Steal... and spend the remainder buying condoms...

that deserves rep!
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Rep given, but you could've chosen better...Ms. Steal has some of the fakest looking funbags around.
 
I would invest 80,000 of it in a small start-up company(maybe another company like google when they weere small)

Or if that fials, I have another 120,000 to spend on cars and houses and PS3's:lol:
 
How many car's and houses can you buy with 120k? That'd buy less than half my house, maybe it'd buy my garden.
 
amp88
Put it in a Swiss bank account?
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Bingo :) My thoughts exactly.

Or keep it in cash under my matrass untill I get a great idea ..
 
live4speed
How many car's and houses can you buy with 120k? That'd buy less than half my house, maybe it'd buy my garden.
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That's in England, you can buy a pretty decent lot in the suburbs for that money in the US, or a house and lot way out in the boonies.

My parent's lot (.6 acre) is appraised just a little over that, and it's a fairly good location.
 
skip0110
Ms. Steal has some of the fakest looking funbags around.
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hey, it's a one night thing... I don't care how fake they look :D for 200k I'm mashing and slapping it all :lol:
 
live4speed
How many car's and houses can you buy with 120k? That'd buy less than half my house, maybe it'd buy my garden.
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120k wouldn't even pay for half of the house I live in, we paid 275,000 for the house we live in now and that's considered cheap for the area.
 
BlazinXtreme
120k wouldn't even pay for half of the house I live in, we paid 275,000 for the house we live in now and that's considered cheap for the area.
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Use http://www.zillow.com/ to appraise your lot...I'm betting it's at or near $120K-$150K. You could get some pretty nice chunks of land for that money.
 
BlazinXtreme
120k wouldn't even pay for half of the house I live in, we paid 275,000 for the house we live in now and that's considered cheap for the area.
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Damn, and you live in a pretty big house don't you? My average sized 4 bedroom semi-detatched is worth £385k, that's over $700kUSD, I didn't realise the difference was so big in property prices :eek:.
 
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