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Ask HN: What was your best passive income of 2019?
- negrit 7y agoI’ll post mine since I started the topic. I sold a couple pictures of my travel this year. Got a few hundred bucks out of it. I’m pretty happy about it since the goal wasn’t to make money out of it.
- beefchops 7y agoCool, what kind of photography was it? Landscapes?
- negrit 7y agoTravel photography, so landscape/drone photography.
- thijsvandien 7y agoWhere/whom do you sell those? I have a friend who'd love to do such photography for money, but what's the market really...?
- negrit 7y agoI published then on my instagram and travel magazine like condenast traveller reached out to me to buy them.
- mtnGoat 7y agoA niche shopify store netted me low 5 figures without much work.
- EpicEng 7y agoNot at all tech related, but my friend and I loan money for mortgages to people who likely wouldn't be able to get one from a bank. Mostly fix and flips, interest only, two year term. Make 12% on each one.
- iends 7y ago12% a year?
- EpicEng 7y agoYeah, it's a mortgage. Interest only though, so it's a flat 12% / 12
- monoideism 7y agoWhat happens is they haven't sold at the end of the two year term?
- EpicEng 7y agoSometimes they pay it off, sometimes they extend. Defaults are rare, and we're first in line.
- monoideism 7y ago> Defaults are rare, Because we've been living through a lengthy real-estate boom that will likely bust in the coming year or two. I'm sure you've kept that in mind, but that's the reason defaults have been rare. I like the idea, however. How do you find your flippers?
- throw03172019 7y agoInteresting! How did you get into this and how much capital was needed to start?
- ks1234 7y agoHow did you find these deals? Did you find them directly or through a service like Patch of Land?
- chad_strategic 7y agoI have had success with class action lawsuits.
- chad_strategic 7y agoI kind like the surprise check that comes in the mail every few weeks. Once I got a check for $1200. Need to thank Ashley Madison lawsuit for that one.
- ksherlock 7y agostock dividends.
- dudul 7y agoDon't know if it counts, but I sold my house for 40% more than I bought it 5 years ago. Combination of market appreciation in the area and strategic improvements. Also, I wrote a tech book a few years ago and still get a couple hundred bucks every quarter.
- slipwalker 7y agomind to share which was the topic and publisher of the book ?
- wmurmann 7y agoBought bitcoin at 4K, sold at 10k.
- spocklivelong 7y agoMade some good money on the stock market, some modest bets and a lot of index funds. Made about 10% more than s&p 500 for 2019.
- tracer4201 7y ago30% returns across a few hand picked stocks, VTSAX, and VOO. The hand picked stocks are a good chunk of the SP500, and so this isn’t all really that diversified... I know. 1.8-2.2% returns on cash. Meh.
- gigatexal 7y agoI bought a few shares of Apple at 149 during the silly market overreaction of 2019 and have almost doubled my investment at current prices.
- mmvs 7y agoAMD stock
- jetti 7y agoMy best was dividends on a REIT and that was followed up by royalties from a book I published a couple years ago
- dev_north_east 7y agoGlobal indexed funds. 23% gain in 2019. Nice.