Jimmy Cooper

Real Estate Broker/Owner/Developer/Investor/Consultant

[StripMallGuy @realEstateTrent]

The happiest people I know are in their 60’s.

Their kids are out of the house and thriving, the daily grind is behind them, and they spend lots of time traveling around the world with their spouses and the friends they’ve known for decades.

They seem fulfilled, genuinely happy, and no longer concerned about impressing anyone, or building the next thing.

Many spend time with their adult children, or on hobbies they’ve picked up.

Some are building their new, smaller house - at their own pace. They splurge on better concert tickets, nicer restaurants, and better travel accommodations.

Their work is mostly in the form of slowly uncovering interesting and passive investment opportunities, and helping their peers do the same.

They spend lots of time at the gym, in the sauna, swimming, or on the golf course.

There’s a certain easiness about them, a peak confidence. A sense of accomplishment.

They’re often the life of the party, and can hang around the restaurant laughing and telling stories long after the rest of us have asked for our checks and scooted home.

They’re rarely in a rush.

They can be spontaneous and decide to head to Vegas on a whim, or they can open up a map of the earth, and ask their spouse to point to where they should go this fall - and choose any dates they want.

Who knew that 65 was the new 25.

Or maybe it’s actually always been that way.

[StripMallGuy @realEstateTrent]

Every value-add buyer's daily reality:

Property hits the market for $5M.

Seller's broker tells you it has lots of upside, and you can get the value to $8M.

They're right.

But only after you:

-Spend a few weeks on due-diligence
-Ton of back-and-forth to get your financing done
-Hire an architect to put together the update plan
-Hire structural engineer, landscape architect, etc
-Submit plans to City after 5 rounds of changes
-City approves plan after 8 months of back and forth
-You hire a contractor to do the work
-Lots of delays, change orders, stress
-You spend 9 months proactively leasing 5 vacancies
-You finally finish implementing the value-add plan
-It took two years, and cost $3M

$5M price + $3M investment + lots of time and effort + taking on risk= Zero profit.

It would have been a much better deal to do nothing.

And yet -- they're left wondering why you offered $3.5M.

The answer?

Because working for free sucks.

[Jimmy Cooper @TheJimmyCooper]

@ArbysCares Do better Arby’s. Went inside to order. No one at counter. No orders on the screen. Left after 5 minutes at 38024

[Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו @netanyahu]

אחיי ואחיותיי אזרחי ישראל, לפני שעה קלה יצאנו ישראל וארה״ב למבצע להסרת האיום הקיומי מצד משטר הטרור באיראן.

אני מודה לידידינו הגדול הנשיא דונלד טראמפ על מנהיגותו ההיסטורית.

במשך 47 שנים קורא משטר האייתוללות ״מוות לישראל״, ״מוות לאמריקה״. הוא הקיז את דמינו, רצח אמריקנים רבים וטבח בעמו.

אסור שמשטר טרור רצחני זה יתחמש בנשק גרעיני שיאפשר לו לאיים על האנושות כולה.

הפעולה המשותפת שלנו תיצור את התנאים לעם האיראני האמיץ ליטול את גורלו בידו.

הגיעה העת לכל חלקי העם באיראן - הפרסים, הכורדים, האזרים, הבלוצ׳ים והאחוואזים - לסלק מעליהם את עול העריצות ולהביא לאיראן חופשית ושוחרת שלום.

אני פונה אליכם אזרחי ישראל להשמע להנחיות פיקוד העורף, בימים הקרובים במבצע ״שאגת הארי״ כולנו נידרש לאורך רוח ולתעצומות נפש.

יחד נעמוד, יחד נילחם ויחד נבטיח את נצח ישראל.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Optimus will make aging at home possible.

Daily care. Quiet support. Zero drama.

Comfort stays steady. Dignity stays protected.

Independence stops feeling fragile.

@Tesla, @elonmusk

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Optimus will be amazing for protecting and taking care of your elderly parents

[Karoline Leavitt @PressSec]

🚨🚨🚨🚨This is HUGE! 🏡

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang at CES 2026:

“We imagine that someday, a billion cars on the road will all be autonomous. You could have it as a robotaxi that you're orchestrating and renting from somebody, or you could own it and have it driving by itself. Or you could decide to drive it yourself. But every single car will have autonomous vehicle capability. Every single car will be AI-powered.”

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

NEWS: NVIDIA just announced Alpamayo, what CEO Jensen Huang calls the world’s first thinking, reasoning autonomous vehicle AI, launching on U.S. roads later this year, starting with the Mercedes CLA.

Jensen: "It's trained end-to-end. Literally from camera in to actuation out; It reasons what action it is about to take, the reason by which is came about that action, and the trajectory."

Alpamayo introduces Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, which enable self-driving systems to interpret what they see, reason about complex driving scenarios, and generate driving actions. The platform includes large reasoning models, simulation tools for testing rare and edge-case scenarios, and open datasets for training and validation.

NVIDIA says the approach improves transparency, safety, and robustness in autonomous systems, particularly in complex real-world environments, and supports progress toward higher levels of vehicle autonomy:

"With a 10-billion-parameter architecture, Alpamayo 1 uses video input to generate trajectories alongside reasoning traces, showing the logic behind each decision. Developers can adapt Alpamayo 1 into smaller runtime models for vehicle development, or use it as a foundation for AV development tools such as reasoning-based evaluators and auto-labeling systems. Alpamayo 1 provides open model weights and open-source inferencing scripts. Future models in the family will feature larger parameter counts, more detailed reasoning capabilities, more input and output flexibility, and options for commercial usage."

[Will Compton @_willcompton]

Not sure if I’ve ever gotten this emotional watching a commercial before

The conversations, the memories, the music

It all broke me

Thank you for making me cry today, Chevrolet

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Throwback to Chevrolet’s first non-woke, deeply emotional Christmas ad.

I mean it when I say it’s impossible to watch without tearing up.

Merry Christmas Eve everyone 🎄
https://t.co/ZMNceHEfv1

[ELON CLIPS @ElonClipsX]

Elon Musk: Tesla will be the Airbnb for cars.

“My prediction is that probably by the end of next year, we'll have probably hundreds of thousands, if not over a million Teslas doing self-driving in the U.S. Unsupervised full self-driving where you do not need to pay attention. We'll have a model that is kind of like some combination of Uber and Airbnb. If you're a Tesla owner, you'll be able to add or subtract your car to the fleet. So, just like an Airbnb, you could rent out your spare bedroom or rent out your house when you're not using it. And the same thing will be available for Tesla owners. So it's a way for Tesla owners to earn revenue. Instead of having your car sit in the parking lot, your car could be earning money.”

From: CNBC Interview with David Faber, May 20, 2025

[theficouple @theficouple]

She doesn’t know it yet:

But the “boring” rental we bought back in 2023?

Will pay for her entire college education in 2041.

Lesson: One rental can change your life forever

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@MichaelDell on his Trump Account announcement: "What my wife and I have decided to do is for the kids that are under 10 years old... that live in zip codes where the median income is less than $150,000, we'll be giving 25M of those kids $250 to start their [accounts]..."

[Kevin Carpenter @kejca]

Charlie Munger: "If you actually figure out how many decisions were made in the history of Berkshire Hathaway, it wasn't very many per year that were meaningful."

"It's a game of being there all the time and recognizing the rare opportunity when it comes — and recognizing that a normal human allotment is to not have very many [incredible opportunities]."

[StripMallGuy @realEstateTrent]

Don’t buy a cap rate.

Create it.

[Rocky Top Now @rockytopnow]

Thank you, Tony Vitello

- 2 SEC Regular Season Titles
- 2 SEC Tournament Titles
- 3 CWS appearances
- 1 CWS Championship
- 52 Players Drafted
- 10 First Round Picks

[NAR Research @NAR_Research]

"Sales of previously owned U.S. homes ticked lower in August amid affordability issues for buyers thanks to still-pricey homes on the market and interest rates on mortgages that remain relatively steep despite recent drops in borrowing costs." #NAREHS
https://t.co/bY7KbCCtsU