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I'm Thinking About Buying Historic Real Estate

If the 1970s are any guide, you can lose on both stocks and bonds. The other lesson of the 1970s is that real estate housing outperformed in the US. I have a very idiosyncratic trade called the historic real estate trade. It's really hard to make a 16th century house in 2023. They don't make them anymore. And so I've gone about acquiring historic real estate. It'll probably turn out to be a bad investment because really, they belong on the liability side of the balance sheet, not the asset side. But they're quite it's fun to live in. Even if it doesn't, it'll still be quite nice to sit by my my

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