[lowyder993s]

I just paid off my house and HELOC last week...500k. Bought the house 8 years ago for 400, neighbor sold his last year for 1.4M. I'd say we're @ 1.2M value right now. Was able to do it by investing in a former employees family start-up. 50k to 1M in less than 2 years. Felt like I hit the lottery. Still have some shares of the company, plan is to go public in the next 2 years. After riding AOL, IOM and others up and into the ground in the 90's...it feels good to take a bunch off the table and be able to lose that nut every month.