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Who runs Gaza? If not Hamas, then who?

I'm saying that the potential damage that 1 cheap Hamas rocket may cause is much higher than the cost of Iron Dome rockets.

Mine is bigger than yours! http://www.pbs.org/newshour/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/sli...

There is an ongoing cold & hot war between Hamas and Israel. Israel maintains checkpoints in the West Bank, and continues to build settlements, while leaving Gaza alone. Hamas undermines West Bank peace by murdering Fatah members, and not negotiating with Israel, claiming they want to ultimately fight all Jews in the world. Furthermore, Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank joined Hamas in a unity government.

I think you are mistaken about who started the current fighting. In short, among the backdrop of relative calm: 3 Israelis youths were murdered, Israel searched the West Bank, and arrested numerous Hamas individuals, among other suspects. An Arab boy was murdered, Israel arrested numerous Israeli suspects. Hamas begins firing rockets from Gaza. Then Israel began responding with air attacks in Gaza.

If a rocket were to land in Tel Aviv and damage a building, it would probably cause more than $50,000 in damages. Damages to include are property damage, PTSD of the local population, schools closing, and offices closing.

If you have the credit I'd buy $500,000 worth of rental properties. Ideally I'd get 10 x $50,000 putting down $10,000 each. You'd need a bit extra for closing costs, so you can just buy 9.

If done right, you should be earning over $15,000-$20,000 a year in rental net income. Spend that money as freely as you'd like, making sure you keep aside 3-6 months of mortgage payments in cash.

Learn how credit works, and feel comfortable buying a car with little money down at 1% interest, rather than reducing your asset value buy buying a car with all cash.

You should read more about this but that's my suggestion, best of luck.

$500,000 isn't too much. You would be fortunate if you can turn the $500,000 into $5000/mo in income, thereby covering all of your current monthly expenses. Once you have all that free time, you'll probably want to start spending more money though.

You can earn the 12% a year by investing wisely in rental properties. That would be 12% in net income, which doesn't include any future appreciation (or decline in price). To achieve those numbers, you will most likely want to buy your rentals with a mortgage, so I hope you have a W-2 or other steady taxed income for the last 2 years, because thats what you'll need to qualify for most loans, but not all.

By leveraging your $500,000, you can buy $2,000,000 worth of assets in real estate. YMMV.

I moved to Israel a few years ago because I am a Zionist. For me, I wake up everyday with the goal to improve Israeli society and the Israeli economy.

Odesk could probably help you with that.

For starters it's not available on Android.

Ask BiggerPockets.com, they would know more about best use of real estate than Hacker News.

That's how I learned Hebrew. There was a service I used, I forget what it was, but it was definitely useful. Essentially I would just login at a scheduled time with my tutor and we would practice Hebrew, her native language. It was pretty expensive, and if I didn't have a scholarship to learn Hebrew at the time, I probably wouldn't have been able to afford it.

It would be interested if... You could "earn" credits by teaching someone your language, which could be redeemed to learn a language from someone else. It is a workable business model where you basically get teachers for "free" and a certain portion of the users pay into it to get credits.

So far, I love Podio, flexible, free. CRM & Project Management.

Notarizing and having to physically mail said notarization.

Go to Odesk and hire someone to talk to you for an hour a day.

Contact a commercial real estate agent, invest in a NNN property in most major cities. Getting 5% unleveraged is extremely easy, if you leverage you should be making over 10% per year.

Buyers and sellers need to agree on a price, it is not always the case that they agree for the listed price, hence bid and ask prices are different. For example, when thousands of people want to sell at $1000, then there will be downward pressure on the bitcoin. When someone tries to sell out $1,000,000 worth of bitcoin, he will need to find a buyer that is willing to part with $1,000,000 USD. Good luck!

The Power of Habit, great book, just finished it. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400069289?ie=UTF8&camp=213...

$750,000 could net you $100,000 a year in income. Let's say $90,000 a year if you have an expensive property manager. You can start here: http://biggerpockets.com

For me it is passive, I have a property manager. I did all of my research online, met my agent over the phone after Googling. Did not visit the property before purchasing. I did a lot of research however...

Buy and hold. I had been patient and bought after the market crashed. I bought it in another state and put 25% down on a 4-plex. Rent pays my mortgage and I have money in my account every month. I would have tried to earn more money in order to purchase more.

low 4 figures from real estate

How about craigslist?

They got some great press upon launch. TC, Gizmodo, Pcmag, Time, engadget, etc. When it rains, it pours. Way to go. Most of the money is likely to go towards manufacturing, I hope their business model let's them make a healthy profit as well. Does anyone think it would be a good business idea to join their API for $1,000?

Way to go Nimrod, $300k in 3 days.

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I'd be interested in buying "side projects".

You ought to try out adwords. You can reach millions of people looking for a job. Test out dozens of catchy phrases. And see what keywords are driving a positive ROI. You might want to also do some display advertising to drive traffic; the clicks are cheaper, but the conversion rates can be lower.

People have contributed lots of words. Ask a sorority president if you can give beta access to all of their members, send them all an email and see how 100 new girls use the app.

If you rely on HackerNews for your feedback exclusively, that is why you will fail.