Just made my first purchase with my soon to be winnings. I could have looked around for a while, but I figured 5 minutes of research was enough. http://www.luxuryrealestate.com/res...d-292-aka-ula-way-wailea-hawaii-united-states
I thought about this quite a bit yesterday. living in Illinois would net me a respectable $250 million after all taxes. Spoiler - would take ~$50m for me, invest the other $200m - no more debt/bills - spread some cash around to certain family and friends - buy homes in Liverpool, France, this little property, and maybe another little place in Illinois/Cali. - also buy some kind of ranch on some acreage in Montana (hopefully with an airstrip or just a fuck load of open land) - buy a small cessna so I can fly back and forth from my ranch to my missile base would ultimately just travel back and forth between my homes. no more working ever would be pretty nice.
Is it weird that I'm very surprised this is only $7mil? It's 6,000+ sq.ft and has crazy amenities. Feel like in Hawaii that is under valued with that pool
I would start buying up land across the southeast and then once weed is legalized I would start my weed growing empire.
I know a lot of people say the first thing they would buy would be a car, house, boat, etc. I'm more of a realist. I know that I'm running low on fabric softener, so that would probably be the first thing.
It might be cool to be in the office pool and that couple dollars is worth the funnies and comraderie (sp?) it brings about, but I would stay far far away from office pools, etc. People would go crazy over $500 million and act the fool - act like you only put in $3 when you really put in $5 or some other dumb shit. I buy about $3 - $5 worth of tickets. If I am meant to win, I will win on that. I also heard (if I remember this corrrectly - don't quote me on it) that the Mega Millions sold $600 million worth of tickets on Tuesday alone. You know they making bank.
I mean, what does it matter if you actually get there and dont like it? Way better than staying in a hotel till you find something you do like. And then when you find it you can turn that shanty into your guest house.
Im not positive on how all office pools work but if I figure you have a set amount everyone throws in or they dont get in on it. That way there is no confusion as to who put how much in.
That's why you draw up a contract and have everyone sign it. In both of my office pools everyone entered in the same amount of money and will all be entitled to an even share of the winnings. Duh
I don't know what I will do first but I know within a week or so their will naked tons of naked sluts on my yacht
I'm buying 500-1,000 acres somewhere Texas-westward, a small place off the square in Oxford, and taking a year to travel to find my next place. I will also purchase one of these:
I mean I get the premise. But it seems like it could get messy. The best way I think would be everyone puts in the same and would win the same, etc. But I am just talking. It's you all's money, spend it how you please. I am kinda just warning about how people get stupid and greedy with that much money involved. Most of you seem pretty smart, so I am sure you all know that.
I'll give myself about 1 million a year to live on and invest the rest. In about 50 years I'll build a huge skyscraper named after me.
Also, no doubt Im buying a tour bus and making every FSU football game this season. As well as any other sporting events I've ever wanted to go to. I'll also make the Olympics this summer.
I don't have firefox as my browser...so I don't get a red squigley line when I misspell something....and sometimes I don't feel like looking a word up just to spell it correctly on omething that may or may not even be read. I spell good enough for people to get the point, and I know how to use their/they're/there, etc etc.
If I won, I would by one house close to where I am now. Maybe Jekyll, St.Simons, Sea Isand or somehwere a little farther north. Then I would just rent out houses when I wanted to travel. Fuck buying a house in Jamaica and paying utilities, prop taxes, etc etc (especially when I wouldn't stay there but a couple months a year) when I can just rent one for $5K a week. Probably buy 2 cars - a Porsche Cayanne and a convertible of some sort. Then who knows. Just travel. Pay off my parents bank notes.
The hard part would be how to look out for friends and family.... I have a few friends that I would buy stuff for, give $1 million dollars, and start them a $100-$200K business so they could self sustain. Extended family would be the hard part. Maybe break all the adults off with 20K a piece? And get a new phone number. Or pay off their houses....something. Maybe set aside a few million for extended family and give everyone an equal amount and once that is gone, it's gone.
Fuck yeah. I have always wanted a Porsche. And I have always had an SUV - whatdaya get when you cross a Porsche and an SUV - a Porsche Cayenne.
Get a fucking Range Rover or some shit then. Cayennes are gay as fuck. Save the Porsche for your convertible.
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1850-Northshore-Rd-Lake-Oswego-OR-97034/48228937_zpid/ Since I don't want to leave Oregon full time, I'd buy this house/island as my home base of operations.
You had best believe my ass would be on the sideline at every Ole Miss practice in full coaching attire.
I would just want to name one part after me. And I would try my damnedest to get kicked out of that part.
http://www.usamega.com/mega-millions-jackpot.asp In Indiana it will be about $279M on lump sum, but that's at a 25% fed tax and your liability will be 35%. So another 10% off of the original $390M lump sum. would be due on your taxes at the end of hte year. So $240M cash after you've deducted the extra 10% you still owe that isn't automatically taken out.