There is an ongoing cold & hot war between Hamas and Israel. Israel maintains checkpoints in the West Bank, and continues to build settlements, while leaving Gaza alone. Hamas undermines West Bank peace by murdering Fatah members, and not negotiating with Israel, claiming they want to ultimately fight all Jews in the world. Furthermore, Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank joined Hamas in a unity government.
I think you are mistaken about who started the current fighting. In short, among the backdrop of relative calm: 3 Israelis youths were murdered, Israel searched the West Bank, and arrested numerous Hamas individuals, among other suspects. An Arab boy was murdered, Israel arrested numerous Israeli suspects. Hamas begins firing rockets from Gaza. Then Israel began responding with air attacks in Gaza.
If a rocket were to land in Tel Aviv and damage a building, it would probably cause more than $50,000 in damages. Damages to include are property damage, PTSD of the local population, schools closing, and offices closing.
If you have the credit I'd buy $500,000 worth of rental properties. Ideally I'd get 10 x $50,000 putting down $10,000 each. You'd need a bit extra for closing costs, so you can just buy 9.
If done right, you should be earning over $15,000-$20,000 a year in rental net income. Spend that money as freely as you'd like, making sure you keep aside 3-6 months of mortgage payments in cash.
Learn how credit works, and feel comfortable buying a car with little money down at 1% interest, rather than reducing your asset value buy buying a car with all cash.
You should read more about this but that's my suggestion, best of luck.
$500,000 isn't too much. You would be fortunate if you can turn the $500,000 into $5000/mo in income, thereby covering all of your current monthly expenses. Once you have all that free time, you'll probably want to start spending more money though.
You can earn the 12% a year by investing wisely in rental properties. That would be 12% in net income, which doesn't include any future appreciation (or decline in price). To achieve those numbers, you will most likely want to buy your rentals with a mortgage, so I hope you have a W-2 or other steady taxed income for the last 2 years, because thats what you'll need to qualify for most loans, but not all.
By leveraging your $500,000, you can buy $2,000,000 worth of assets in real estate. YMMV.
That's how I learned Hebrew. There was a service I used, I forget what it was, but it was definitely useful. Essentially I would just login at a scheduled time with my tutor and we would practice Hebrew, her native language. It was pretty expensive, and if I didn't have a scholarship to learn Hebrew at the time, I probably wouldn't have been able to afford it.
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You could "earn" credits by teaching someone your language, which could be redeemed to learn a language from someone else. It is a workable business model where you basically get teachers for "free" and a certain portion of the users pay into it to get credits.
Contact a commercial real estate agent, invest in a NNN property in most major cities. Getting 5% unleveraged is extremely easy, if you leverage you should be making over 10% per year.
Buyers and sellers need to agree on a price, it is not always the case that they agree for the listed price, hence bid and ask prices are different.
For example, when thousands of people want to sell at $1000, then there will be downward pressure on the bitcoin. When someone tries to sell out $1,000,000 worth of bitcoin, he will need to find a buyer that is willing to part with $1,000,000 USD. Good luck!
$750,000 could net you $100,000 a year in income. Let's say $90,000 a year if you have an expensive property manager. You can start here: http://biggerpockets.com
For me it is passive, I have a property manager. I did all of my research online, met my agent over the phone after Googling. Did not visit the property before purchasing. I did a lot of research however...
