brightside878

re: Anyone here taken young kids to Cabo?

Posted by brightside878 on 9/30/26 at 3:19 pm to Big Scrub TX

Cabo is the ultimate 3 night trip to a high end property and excellent restaurants for us. Trust me, we wouldn’t put up with any of the bullshite you’re describing

Did you just go back and forth from a shithole hotel to Senor Frogs?

Travel Board

re: Need help on an index fund decision for custodial Roth IRA

Posted by brightside878 on 9/2/26 at 2:02 pm to notsince98

No sarcasm- if I knew I wouldn’t have asked

Everything I’ve always read says an S&P index will be 90% of any of these so likely just domestic

re: Need help on an index fund decision for custodial Roth IRA

Posted by brightside878 on 9/2/26 at 2:01 pm to Arthur Bach

Thank you I appreciate it

And appreciate all responses. With that much time in the market I guess it doesn’t really matter to some extent.

It’s easy to over analyze these

Need help on an index fund decision for custodial Roth IRA

Posted by brightside878 on 9/1/26 at 3:33 pm

I’m funding my children’s Roth IRA‘s and can’t decide on an index fund. I can mindlessly dump into once a year. Currently have them set up in VUG, but would VOO be a better option? Completely open to any other suggestions as well.

re: Tax Strategist?

Posted by brightside878 on 8/24/26 at 11:14 am to Rize

I am certainly not a CPA, but I believe you could depreciate those things in the first year and show income via sold hunts to make that all legitimate. What sucks is that it’s unsustainable and will inevitably fall into the column of hobby versus income-producing endeavor.

Where the flipping of land works/timber farming is every second or third year there’s a profit of just a little bit to avoid triggering and audit

re: Tax Strategist?

Posted by brightside878 on 8/24/26 at 10:33 am to Neauxla

I’ve lived in this frame of thought for the last 5 to 6 years. My wife and I are both very fortunate W-2 earners.

LEGALLY- you can pay less taxes by making less money.

Our strategy has been flipping undeveloped timber properties classified as farms, and we legally take a loss on that every other year or so. However, it’s not saving much in the grand scheme of things, but I do get a lot of outdoor related things at a discount per se.

I would get familiar with the concept that only active losses can offset active income

re: 529 milestones for Junior

Posted by brightside878 on 5/4/26 at 3:23 pm to Finnish

quote:
used some online calculator from Schwab. $100k in 1st grade gets me to where it says I should be for my kid to go to an out of state public school. Tough balance between saving enough and not saving too much.

This was my strategy. Find the shite out of it early and hopefully let it ride. I’ve stopped contributing to all 3. The benchmark we used was approx out of state public school. Approx 50k a year

Wedges

Posted by brightside878 on 4/22/26 at 4:38 pm

As an 18 handicap, what wedges would you recommend I carry?
I’ve currently got a 54 for a 90ish club and 58 for around the green

Thanks

Golf Board

re: What’s the best place to sell a gun online right now?

Posted by brightside878 on 4/5/26 at 7:56 pm to ruger35

It’ll be the new NBK

Still undecided between Altus and Alamo. It’ll be close on price

Robert (Alamo) says the LRH still needs bedding, and Altus says that’s the entire point of the mini chassis

Altus will sell the barreled action and stock separately to save few dollars on tax too

re: What’s the best place to sell a gun online right now?

Posted by brightside878 on 4/5/26 at 7:14 pm to ruger35

quote:
What’s the build plans?

Gonna go 7 prc
Manners LRH
Impact action
Proof 22”
Hawkins bottom metal
Trigger tech

re: What’s the best place to sell a gun online right now?

Posted by brightside878 on 4/5/26 at 7:13 pm to Rize

I remember you posting they all came out great

I may have them build this next one too. Great to work with

re: What’s the best place to sell a gun online right now?

Posted by brightside878 on 4/5/26 at 3:37 pm to ruger35

Appreciate the recs I’ll make accounts on a couple other boards.

I’ve got a Bergara mountain rifle in 6.5 cm and an Alamo Precision 6.5 cm on a Defiance action

Plan to make deals on both to build a new rifle

What’s the best place to sell a gun online right now?

Posted by brightside878 on 4/5/26 at 11:01 am

I’ve got a couple nice bolt guns I’m looking to move before I start another project

re: Y’all don’t want to hear this, but there’s a bigotry against Louisiana that fuels the hate

Posted by brightside878 on 3/26/26 at 10:40 pm to AlaTiger

I’ve lived in Memphis and currently live in Mississippi. The baptists think we’re heathen pieces of shite and that’s before we took their beloved coach.

It’s a cultural hatred rooted deeper than football

Tiger Rant

re: AI tools for stock picking

Posted by brightside878 on 2/23/26 at 11:44 am to LSUTIGERS74

Wouldn’t mind at all

I’ll send you what he sent me

Some important context I left out- this was carried largely by nvidia

re: AI tools for stock picking

Posted by brightside878 on 2/23/26 at 11:42 am to brightside878

Started this and forgot about it

Thanks for the responses all insightful I appreciate it

AI tools for stock picking

Posted by brightside878 on 2/22/26 at 9:53 pm

Are any of you doing this? I normally keep a consistent approach with growth ETF’s

But a friend of mine just told me about his last 24 month success using ChatGPT and Gemini Pro for picks. His goal is buy and hold with consistent contributions

I’m talking 10x

Curious to hear other experiences