Your Parents, Success or Failure. Options

[Consynx]

Be as harsh as you want...their your own rents.
but im curious, how many of your parents are loaded, how many are broke as sh*t...and just all that jazz...

That's all..

[97sccelica]

well, currently

my dad is in a comma.

before that, when he came home from vietnam, he got a job with only a HS degree and some college units working at lockheed fixing airplanes.

had that job for 32 years, untill his massive heart attack last May. at the time he was making $60k a year depending on how much overtime he took on.

he invested his money in real estate with his brother and dad.

we currently own several appartment buildings and shopping centers which are covering the massive fees of taking care of someone that is in a comma

since i was 8 i was helping my dad do all the repairs on our appartment buildings. i even helped him reroof our old house which we sold to pay off our current house and invest in an office building and another shopping center. its a good thing we did that, otherwise we would have lost the house we live in when my dad went into the comma.

btw, we purchased the house we live in 14 years ago at $260k. its now worth over $600k, and its paid off.

my mom also has a HS degree and some college.

she recently took up real estate again, she stopped when my dad first got in the comma.

she was making 30-40k a year, but since May, she hasnt made much of anything.

as of now i do little computer repair jobs to earn my spending money. i maintain the home and the cars and still make repairs at the appartments, which i do to have my mom pay for my WRX. last month i did over $1k in repairs to one appartment alone.

im also in college, studying to be a mechanical engineer. as soon as i am done with that i will support my mom and put my sister through college.

so for now, i technically dont bring money in, but i do my best to make sure as little goes out as possible.

summary- parents worked their asses off so that my sister and i could have a good life and get college educations to in turn, support them when they need it. sadly, my parents will need the support sooner than planned.