Kevin Achatz

Seed planter of God’s Word. Satan will kill Jesus’s Two Witnesses. They will rise after 3.5 days, just like Jesus did. Then will come Jesus as King

[Kevin Achatz @KevinAchatz]

Happy Thanksgiving

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Think and Grow Rich. It changed my life too.

[Larson Baldwin @LowCountry_GC]

This book changed my life a few years ago

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Carl Jung

[Epic Man Thinker @NMasculine7]

CARL JUNG'S METHOD FOR MAKING WISHES COME TRUE.

It Works Even For Skeptics. Practice It For 10 Days, And Something Strange Begins To Happen:

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[Kevin Achatz @KevinAchatz]

200x per day

[Prince Fynn @Prince_Fynnd]

Dear men,

Do this Mike Tyson movement 200 times a day, the changes in one month will surprise you.

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30% vinegar

[Joe @JoeAlderman11]

Six snakes were hit with our 30% mix of vinegar and salt mix for weed control. We don’t use roundup because it causes cancer. Bad shit. We use 1 gallon 30% vinegar, 1 cup salt, and 2 tablespoons dawn detergent. Kills the shit out of weed. The snakes came out when sprayed. Had to wash them off. Dekays brown snakes. 6 of them. Washed and saved them from death.

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[Texas 🇺🇸 @MustangMan_TX]

NOW THAT’S A GOOD TEXAS TROOPER STORY!
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A Texas State trooper pulled a car over on I-10 about 62 miles west of Kerrville Texas. When the trooper asked the driver why he was speeding, the driver said he was a Magician and Juggler and was on his way to West Texas to do a show for the Shrine Circus. He didn't want to be late.

The trooper told the driver he was fascinated by juggling and said if the driver would do a little juggling for him then he wouldn't give him a ticket. He told the trooper he had sent his equipment ahead and didn't have anything to juggle.

The trooper said he had some flares in the trunk and asked if he could juggle them. The juggler said he could, so the trooper got 5 flares, lit them and handed them to him.

While the man was juggling, a car pulled in behind the State Troopers car. A drunken good old boy from Ingram Texas got out, watched the performance, then went over to the Trooper's car, opened the rear door and got in. The trooper observed him and went over to the State car, opened the door asking the drunk what he thought he was doing.

The drunk replied, “You might as well take my butt to jail, cause there ain't no way I can pass that test.”

[Kevin Achatz @KevinAchatz]

Guide to benefits

[hunter @hxxntrr]

Met a guy in Denver who has taken $11,000 out of his credit card company in the last 2 years and he has never once paid interest or a fee to get it

He didn't sue them. He didn't dispute anything. He just files claims on benefits that were sitting on his card the entire time

His phone got stolen out of a gym locker. $1,100 replacement. The card paid $800 of it, because he pays his phone bill with that card and cell phone protection is a benefit on it

His laptop died 14 months in, 2 months after the manufacturer warranty expired. The card's extended warranty added a year. They paid $1,900

Flight delayed 8 hours in Dallas. Trip delay reimbursement covered his hotel, dinner, and a change of clothes. $340

Bag never showed up in Denver. Baggage delay. $180

Rental car in Phoenix got keyed in a parking lot. His card carries primary rental coverage, so he declined the counter insurance entirely and the card handled the whole claim. Saved $34 a day on the rental and covered a $2,200 repair without ever touching his auto policy

A $600 jacket got stolen out of his car 40 days after he bought it. Purchase protection paid it

Total pulled out of the bank in 2 years: roughly $11,000

Every single one of these was already on his card. He has paid $0 extra for any of it

"my card doesn't have that stuff"

You have no idea what your card has. Neither did he until he actually read the document

Every card has a Guide to Benefits. It's a PDF. It is not in the app, it is not in the marketing, and the bank will never email it to you. Google your exact card name plus "guide to benefits" and read the whole thing one time in your life

What to actually look for:

Cell phone protection. You must pay the phone bill with that card. This one is on a huge number of business cards now and almost nobody uses it

Extended warranty. Usually adds a year to the manufacturer warranty on anything you bought with the card

Purchase protection. Theft or damage within a window after purchase, typically 90 to 120 days

Trip delay and baggage delay. Kicks in at a delay threshold, often 6 or 12 hours

Primary rental car coverage. This is the big one on business cards. Primary means it pays first without touching your personal auto insurance. Decline the counter coverage and save $25 to $40 a day, every rental, forever

Note that price protection is mostly dead. Most major issuers killed it. Don't waste time hunting for it

How to file: there's a benefits administrator, not the bank. Number is in the guide. You'll need the receipt, the statement showing the charge on that card, and a police report or repair estimate depending on the claim. Claims have deadlines, usually 60 to 90 days from the incident, and the deadline is the reason most claims die

Set a rule: anything breaks, gets stolen, or gets delayed, you check the guide before you pay for it yourself

this man has an insurance policy on every single thing he buys, it costs him nothing, and the bank sends him checks because he read a pdf lmfaooo

link in bio and i'll show you how to qualify for up to 250k in 0% APR funding (if you have a 700+)

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short sales

[Makayla | Real Estate Investor @REIMakayla]

A house in Palmetto, Florida just sold for $143,000 less than the owner paid for it in 2023

The bank holding the $470,000 mortgage agreed, in writing, to accept $425,000 and eat the difference

Florida now leads the nation in foreclosures. Banks are signing off on losses every week, and the buyers standing there when they do are getting 2009 prices in 2026

It is called a short sale, and both sides of it are worth understanding right now

What it actually is:

The owner owes more than the house is worth. Selling normally would require them to write a check they do not have at closing. So the bank consents to a sale below the payoff and releases the mortgage anyway

"why would a bank ever agree to lose $45,000"

Because the alternative costs them more. A Florida foreclosure runs through the courts: 12 to 24 months of attorney fees, taxes, insurance, a vacant house baking in the humidity, and then an auction where it brings even less. The bank's own math says take the $425,000 now. Banks do not do short sales out of mercy. They do them out of arithmetic

Why this is happening in Florida right now:

Values in parts of the state are down roughly 13% from peak. Insurance costs detonated. Everyone who bought 2021 to 2023 with 5% down in those zip codes is underwater the moment they need to move. The 2023 buyer at $568,000 did nothing exotic. He just bought at the top with a thin down payment, and life made him sell

If you are the BUYER, the playbook:

1. Find them. MLS remarks: "short sale," "subject to third party approval," "pre-foreclosure." Those phrases repel retail buyers, which is exactly why the price survives

2. Offer realistic, not insulting. The bank orders its own valuation before approving anything. A lowball dies in committee. A 10 to 15% under-market offer on a house nobody else will wait for gets signed

3. Bring patience, because patience IS the discount. Bank approval takes 60 to 120 days. Every impatient buyer self-selects out. You are not being paid to be clever. You are being paid to wait

4. Inspect anyway. Short sales close as-is, and a seller who could not pay the mortgage was not paying for roof maintenance either. Price the repairs into the offer

5. Have funding that survives the timeline. A preapproval that expires in 60 days is worthless on a 100 day deal

If you are the SELLER, or your cousin in Tampa is:

A short sale beats a foreclosure in every measurable way. Shorter credit damage, faster recovery to buying again, no public auction on the record

But one sentence decides whether it actually saved you: the approval letter must say the lender WAIVES THE DEFICIENCY. Waived means the $45,000 gap is gone forever. Not waived means they can come collect it later, with a judgment, after you thought it was over. Make the waiver a written condition or do not sign

And ask a tax professional about the forgiven amount before closing, because forgiven debt can be taxable and there are exclusions most sellers qualify for and never claim

The people who bought short sales from 2009 to 2012 spent a decade being called lucky by everyone who was too disgusted to make an offer

The window is open again. It opened in Florida first

I flip houses and I teach people how to do it with $0 to start. Link in bio, fill out the form and I'll hit you back

[Kevin Achatz @KevinAchatz]

Puerto Rico. Knew two brothers who came to Wisconsin with $6 in their pockets. People kept asking them/telling them they needed a green card. Most people are completely ignorant.

[hunter @hxxntrr]

There's a place where you can pay 4% corporate tax and 0% on capital gains, and you don't need a visa, a second passport, or to renounce anything

It's Puerto Rico. It's a US territory. You fly there on a domestic flight with a driver's license

Act 60, formerly Acts 20 and 22, is the most aggressive legal tax arbitrage available to an American citizen without leaving the country

What it actually gives you:

Export Services: 4% corporate tax rate on income from services performed in Puerto Rico for clients outside Puerto Rico. Your agency, your software company, your consulting firm

Individual Resident Investor: 0% Puerto Rico tax on capital gains, interest, and dividends accrued after you become a bona fide resident

Compare that to a mainland operator in a high tax state. 37% federal, plus state, plus the 3.8% net investment income tax. Someone clearing $1,000,000 in California is handing over roughly half

Same work. Same clients. Same laptop. Different island, and it's an island where the US Postal Service delivers your mail

The requirements are strict and they are enforced:

Presence test. Generally 183 days a year physically in Puerto Rico. Track every day. Keep boarding passes

Tax home test. Your primary place of business must be there

Closer connection test. Your life has to be there. Home, bank accounts, car registration, doctor, the actual center of your existence

You need a real office and in many cases real employees on the island

Annual filings, an accepted tax decree, and an annual compliance fee plus a required charitable donation

The part that catches people:

US source income earned before you moved stays taxable by the IRS. Built up gain on stock you owned before establishing residency does not magically become tax free. There are allocation rules that split gain between the pre-move and post-move period

The IRS has an active enforcement campaign on Act 60 residents specifically. They are looking for people who claim residency, actually live in Miami, and fly down twice a year. Those people are getting audited and losing

This works for one profile: someone whose income is genuinely portable, who is willing to actually move their life, and who is clearing enough that a 30 point tax swing pays for uprooting everything

At $200,000 of income it is not worth the disruption. At $2,000,000 it is a $600,000 a year decision

And the honest part nobody posts: the power grid is unreliable, the bureaucracy is slow, you are far from your network, and plenty of people who moved for the tax rate moved back within two years because they hated their life. The tax rate is real. So is the trade

americans spend years researching how to move abroad for tax reasons and the best deal available to them takes a domestic flight and no passport lmfaooo

link in bio and i'll show you how to qualify for up to 250k in 0% APR funding (if you have a 700+)

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Lawyers should never ask grandmas a question if they aren’t prepared for the answer!

In a trial, a small-town prosecuting attorney called his first witness, an elderly grandmother, to the stand.

He approached her and asked, "Mrs Jones, do you know me?"_

She responded, "Why, yes, I do know you, Mr Williams._ I've known you since you were a young boy, and frankly, you're a big disappointment to me''

''You lie, cheat on your wife, manipulate people and talk about them behind their backs. You think you're a big shot when you haven't the brains to realise you never will amount to anything more than a two-bit paper pusher. Yes, I know you''

The lawyer was stunned! Not knowing what else to do, he pointed across the room and asked, "Mrs Jones, do you know the defence attorney?''

She again replied, "Why, yes, I do. I've known Mr Bradley since he was a youngster. He's lazy, bigoted, and has a drinking problem. He can't build a normal relationship with anyone, and his law practice is one of the worst in the state. Not to mention he cheated on his wife with three different women. One of them was your wife. Yes, I know him."

The defence attorney almost died.

The judge asked both lawyers to approach the bench and, in a quiet voice, said:

"If either of you rascals asks her if she knows me, I'll send you to jail for contempt of court.''

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22 minutes Jordan Belfort

[carp @DepasMarki92257]

A man once imprisoned for talking people out of their money filmed himself doing exactly that, live, and later sold the technique as a course. Seven million people have watched him in action.

That man is Jordan Belfort. The film based on his story is what made him a household name. What almost nobody has actually watched is the real footage: 22 minutes, unscripted and unedited, of him working an actual prospect on camera.

The way he operates is what makes it worth watching. He barely mentions the product itself. The opening minutes are almost entirely questions, and every answer the prospect gives later gets turned back on them in their own words. He isn't persuading so much as gathering material.

Then comes the phrase that turned into a running joke in the comments. He closes his key sentences with a short phrase that makes agreeing feel like the default and saying no feel awkward. Once you spot it, you can't stop noticing it, and you'll likely catch it in your next sales call.

One commenter broke the entire approach down into nine steps, and that comment alone picked up twelve thousand likes, a sign people are genuinely dissecting this footage like a training manual.

Here's the uncomfortable truth: every individual technique in it is fairly standard sales advice, listening closely, mirroring, reducing friction, managing expectations. That's exactly why it's worth understanding. The tactics themselves were never the crime, the intent behind them was.

Once you recognize what's being done to you, it stops working on you. That's really the only real defense.

22 minutes. No script. It's all there in the footage.

[Kevin Achatz @KevinAchatz]

Webinars

[chaz @youngrichgreek]

webinars = best way to sell a shit ton of courses.
webinars = goated because you can handle all 38 objections with every prospect, live, at one time.

the 38:

1. i can't afford it
2. let me ask my husband
3. i don't have time
4. i'll catch the next one
5. i've bought courses before
6. i never finish anything
7. does this work in my country
8. i'm too old
9. i'm not technical
10. i don't have an audience
11. my situation is different
12. i already tried this
13. i don't want to be on camera
14. i don't want to sell to friends
15. what if it doesn't work
16. can i get a refund
17. is this a pyramid scheme
18. how long until i make money
19. how many hours a week
20. i work full time
21. i have kids
22. i'm in another program already
23. why is it this expensive
24. can i pay monthly
25. can i pay in january
26. i want to think about it
27. i have to check my account
28. my card declined
29. do you have proof
30. show me someone like me
31. do i need money to start
32. do i need a following
33. what if i fall behind
34. is there support
35. how long do i get access
36. is it live or recorded
37. what happens when it ends
38. why should i trust you

[Kevin Achatz @KevinAchatz]

60 minutes of Steve Jobs

[Kshitij Mishra | AI & Tech @DAIEvolutionHub]

STEVE JOBS GOT FIRED FROM APPLE.

Then he walked straight into MIT and dropped the most raw, unfiltered 60-minute business masterclass ever recorded.

Zero PR bullshit. Zero image to protect.

Just pure, brutal honesty from the man who built Apple once and was about to rebuild it even bigger.

Stop scrolling.

Watch this tonight instead of Netflix.

Bookmark it. Come back to it.

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21 word affirmation

[One hard Truth @one_hardTruth]

Speak this 21-word affirmation and watch how fast your life improves:💯

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Car negotiations

[Lily @lily_choudhury_]

A car salesman watched his brother-in-law buy a car "the normal way" and overpay by $4,200.

His brother-in-law had done real homework. Researched the model, compared trims, walked in ready to negotiate. He spent 2 hours going back and forth with the salesperson, got the price down $1,800 from the sticker, shook hands, and felt genuinely proud of the deal.

Then he sat down in finance and signed for another 45 minutes.

His brother-in-law — who'd sold cars for 6 years before moving into a different industry — asked to see the paperwork that weekend. He pulled up the dealer invoice for the exact same car online and went quiet for a second.

"You won the negotiation on the car. Then you lost more than the negotiation was worth in the finance office, in a room built specifically for people who think the hard part is already over."

Same car. Same dealership. Completely different total once someone actually broke down the paperwork.

His brother-in-law said: "Wait, the negotiation wasn't even the real number?"

He said: "The car is maybe a third of what a dealership actually makes on most sales. The other two-thirds happen after you've already relaxed."

He walked him through the paperwork line by line.

By the time they were done, he understood exactly where $4,200 had gone — and how to not lose it again next time.

Same car. Same dealership. A completely different outcome if he'd known beforehand.

Here's everything that happened after the negotiation "ended" 🧵

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Math professor

[Niko @0xNiko1]

A math professor beat every casino in Vegas so badly they changed the rules of the game. Then he pointed the same math at Wall Street and made $800 million.

His name is Ed Thorp. In 1962 he did something nobody thought possible: he mathematically proved you can beat blackjack. Count the cards, bet tiny when the odds are bad, bet huge when they flip. The house edge disappears.

Casinos panicked. They added decks, brought in shuffling machines, and started banning anyone who won too cleanly. 1 professor forced an entire industry to rewrite its own game.

Then it got stranger. With Claude Shannon, the father of information theory, Thorp built the first wearable computer in history. It hid in a shoe, clocked the spin of a roulette wheel, and predicted where the ball would land. A 44% edge, in 1961. The device is now illegal.

Beating Vegas made him a little money. So he found a bigger casino: the stock market.

He founded 1 of the first quant hedge funds and ran it for 19 years. In all that time it had only 3 losing months. His returns averaged about 20% a year for nearly 30 years.

He even worked out the options formula that later won other people a Nobel Prize, years before they published it.

He beat the house, then he beat Wall Street, and walked away worth about $800 million.

Everyone else gambled. He just did the math.

[Kevin Achatz @KevinAchatz]

Apple air tag

[Viora Tech @Viora_Tech_Ai]

A guy's bike got stolen off his apartment's rack.

He'd clipped a $29 Apple AirTag under the seat six months earlier, mostly as an afterthought. He never expected to actually need it.

He opened Find My that night expecting nothing — maybe a last-known location from hours ago. Instead, the bike was moving, live, across town. He watched the dot travel for twenty minutes, called the police with the exact route and current location, and officers intercepted the bike three blocks from where it stopped.

He told a friend afterward: "I bought it to stop losing my keys in the couch. I had no idea it was sitting on top of a tracking network with two billion devices in it."

That's the part almost nobody realizes. The AirTag isn't a beeper. It's a passenger on every iPhone that walks near it. Here are 11 uses and features most owners have never touched.

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Golf yardage

[Stingr Golf @StingrGolf]

Phil Mickelson talking about how he calculates yardages is incredible

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Financial scams. Trust your gut

[DON G @KINGGGE_]

Get this...

I almost gave away $9,000 because I trusted my bank's balance.

I sold my old truck on a Saturday. The buyer handed me a cashier's check.

We met at my bank, The teller looked it over and said it appeared legitimate.

I deposited it. Now By Monday morning, the funds showed up as available in my account.

I figured the check had cleared.

The buyer called and said he was sending his brother to pick up the truck because he was out of town.

Something didn't feel right. I told him I'd wait another day.

He got angry.

He said the money was already in my account and accused me of trying to back out of the deal.

The next morning, my bank called.

The cashier's check was counterfeit, The money that.....

[Kevin Achatz @KevinAchatz]

Nobody asks his age

[Marlow @marlowxbt]

A 14 year old has closed $20,500 in barbershop website deals in seven months. Not one owner has ever asked how old he is.

He does not pitch. He shares his screen.

Google Maps, the word barbershop, and he scrolls until he finds a shop with five star reviews stacked up and no website anywhere. Busy place, nobody there ever got round to it.

He builds the site first. Four minutes. Services, prices, hours, a booking button, photos taken off the shop's own page.

Then he dials.

"The shop has no website. I already built one. Thirty seconds, want to see it?"

"Built one for what?"

"For the shop. It is open on my screen right now."

The owner says fine, mostly to end the call.

He shares the screen. The shop's name across the top. The shop's photos. The shop's prices. A button that says book a chair.

"Wait, that's us."

"That's you."

"Who made that?"

"I did. This morning."

A pause, then: "How much."

Five hundred. Every time. Forty one shops in seven months.

The forty first came from the fortieth, who turned his laptop around and showed it to whoever was in the chair.

An agency shows up to that meeting with a portfolio of other people's work. He shows up with the shop's own website already open.

Nobody asks his age because the question never comes up. The thing is either good or it is not, and it is on the screen before anyone has to decide anything.