Personal Business Manager or Private Jet?
 

A friend of mine makes a lot of money and has a personal business manager. Basically, this means that somebody takes care of all his "personal" business: bills, insurance, taxes, etc. No bills ever come to his house, he really never thinks about them. He gets monthly reports showing his income, what bills were paid, investments, etc. He never lifts a finger.

I was telling him that he's basically living my dream and that's probably the best perk I can think of. He said "No, I'd rather have a private jet." Now, once you've already got SO much money that you have everything else you could possible want, a jet would be pretty [censored] sweet. But, right now this minute, I'd get a whole lot more utility from the business manager.

So, right now, if you could have the one of these dropped into your life as it now stands, what do you pick?

Re: Personal Business Manager or Private Jet?
 

The jet, since I found mycheckfree.com, my bills take less than 5 minutes to pay at the end of the month, emmigrant direct for savings, and d/l my bank statements straight into quickboks takes no time to run reports on. Id much much rather have a maid/cook than anything.

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LFS,

"Hey, want to fly to Paris for the weekend in my jet?"

"Hey, want my guy to mail your PG&E and telephone bills for you?"

I'll take the jet.

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If I can afford the operating costs, then the jet easily wins this. I'll just let the trophy wife handle the bill paying.

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Anybody that can afford a private jet can afford a personal business manager too. I can't imagine having the former without the latter, but I can imagine having the latter without the former.

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If you have a halfway decent bank, you can get your bill paying routine down to 10 minutes a month for us small->medium timers, and probably 30 minutes for someone who spends a lot.

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if I was to "win" either... expense free... for the rest of my life.. Jet hands down.

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Jets don't take all your money and flee the country.

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The thing with the jet is that even if its free you have to have serious money to take full advantage of it. What is the point of flying to the caribbean if you have to stay in a crappy hotel? The business manager doesn't have many extra expenses, especially if he'll do my jo or other household tasks like cook.

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If you have ever flown in a private jet, you know it is the clear winner.

Had a business trip with the company president and got to fly in the company jet. All day meeting in Ft. Worth that runs much longer thanks to lawyers. That's okay, the jet is warmed up on the runway at an airport five minutes from the meeting. Cars waiting for us downstairs, drive from the meeting right onto the tarmac, wheels up two minutes later. It rocked.

If we flew commercial, we may have been stuck in Ft. Worth overnight. Instead, we were home in two hours.