Missed opportunities your family had of becoming filthy rich - Page 2

solids · #11 02-27-2007, 10:46 AM

Right before the dot com boom, my father was seriously considering buying stock in amazon.com, because he went to college with the founder back in the day. Last minute, he decides not to. Thanks, dad!

TxSteve · #12 02-27-2007, 11:11 AM

don't remember actual numbers; but my grandfather (who was a carpenter by trade) had an opportunity to buy an entire city block in Berkely, CA in the 50's.

I don't know what the price was; but he could have afforded it..even on a carpenter's salary.

If he'd bought it...and held onto it...wow

gamblore99 · #13 02-27-2007, 11:16 AM

My dad was considering starting up/running tax shelters. He did. He is a millionaire. Suckas!

Tappy Tibbons · #14 02-27-2007, 11:31 AM

I had the opportunity to enjoy life earlier, but I wasted a lot of it being unhappy because I kept regretting all my "missed opportunities." I should have had the foresight to buy tech stocks in 97, then sell in March of 2000. I should have bough Las Vegas real estate in 2001....

Once I realized what a waste of energy regret is, I really started to live.

aramfingal · #15 02-27-2007, 01:09 PM

my dad could have been in the e street band, but he lived on d street.

Narcileptico · #16 02-27-2007, 01:17 PM

My aunt had the opportunity to buy a condo in the center of Vail Village in the 70's for $50k. Would be worth 2 mil+ now.

BukNaked36 · #17 02-27-2007, 01:23 PM

Brother ran $50k into over a million in the tech stock boom. Couldn't believe the bubble burst and ended at back around $50k.

daryn · #18 02-27-2007, 01:25 PM

i almost won a wsop event for ~700K
i almost won a wpt event for ~1.7M

Los Feliz Slim · #19 02-27-2007, 01:27 PM

My mother passed on an opportunity to be in on the ground floor of the company that would become Oracle that Larry Ellison started. She would've been like the seventh person in or something. Thanks, Mom!

Alobar · #20 02-27-2007, 01:28 PM

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don't remember actual numbers; but my grandfather (who was a carpenter by trade) had an opportunity to buy an entire city block in Berkely, CA in the 50's.

I don't know what the price was; but he could have afforded it..even on a carpenter's salary.

If he'd bought it...and held onto it...wow

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Same kinda thing with my grandfather. He had the opportunity to by a few thousand acres just outside of phoenix for .05 cents an acre. He didnt want it cuz it was junk land you couldnt do anything with. Of course the city grew and the land got developed back in the 80s for millions and millions of dollars.