I'll help mickey out of the hole he dug for himself.
My daughter was happily married, things changed so she got divorced, met someone and remarried 4 years ago, and is happily married again. My son also married-divorced-married and is happy. I've been happily married 40+ years. Mickey wouldn't understand any of that since he's never had a social relationship. To him, parents cannot possibly live in blissful harmony having two children with four grandchildren, if the children have had a divorce. I myself don't understand divorces, but over 50% of marriages end up that way. But we live a million miles away from it all.
I also understand mickey wanting and needing to believe in the worst of the worst lies levied against those who articulate what a failure of a life he's had from just about every aspect of it. He also spins tales about me by using a selective collection of partial facts and fantasy that only his toothless mother could love.
Since college (another foreign term to mickey) We've rented two apartments: one in Scottsdale for our daughter when she was in college and a bit afterwards, because she had no credit history yet so we had to put it in our name. And one for my son's wife and our two grandchildren while our son was in Iraq & Afghanistan. When he returned and she moved out we sold our home and moved in while waiting for delivery of our first RV. It arrived a month prior to the end of the apt. lease, and because we wanted to begin travelling full time I asked to cut off the lease a month early. I always paid rent 6 months in advance until our daughter in law left. But the apt. complex refused and I told them to stick it. This the famous judgement my friends here claim I was too broke to pay.
I also have another judgement no one's mentioned, and I'm really surprised. That first RV was bought on credit in 2011 for $135k. I never had one before so I decided to get a low-end one before stepping up. But....after two years it became a bad lemon and gave us nothing but trouble. So I drove it back to the lot and stopped payments. Simple as that. We then went out and bought the one we still have today for $1.5 million cash. I put a pic of that up also. Then we got a new small camper because of our multiple residences. However, since creditors can't touch SS and pension income or retirement accounts and because judgements allow personal property liens, both of those are in our son's name. Just as the houses I've bought in the last four years as well as the vehicles, albeit the houses were driven by inheritance. We live in all 3 of the homes at different times each year, and just like the enormous IRS tax code advantages I used to pay virtually no taxes on $984,000 in net gambling winnings from 2000-2009, I use every legal loophole available and wherever possible. But mickey prefers to say we own no homes, which is technically correct. Just as he chooses to say that this family doesn't live "in harmony" because of children's stupid divorces. That one's a big whopper.
Turns out however, that while all you big-deal "AP's" are out there scraping and grinding your lives away for relative peanuts, tell me exactly who here among us has successfully taken the most "advantage" out of the game that REALLY counts--the game of life? Even when we filed bankruptcy in 1996 to eliminate liability for a dumb mistake, it worked to our advantage overall because it was just another legal tool.
This is why I have to smile watching everybody scrambling around trying to find fault with my life. It's exactly as I've always said it was since the day I started my website. And it is unusual for a professional gambler. Name another who saved for retirement prior to a gambling career, and has been married over 40 years to a woman who's done the same except for the gambling. I know, it really doesn't set well with most of you. That's why mickey etc. would rather run with partial and fake facts than what's really going on. (What I think he hates most about me is my health
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Which leads to the final undeniable truth here. It's not a secret as to why most all posters use anonymous names. Everybody has dings and bumps in their lives, only the AP-mantra doesn't allow for anyone to see the real you because they'd be too embarrassed. I mean, it's obvious not everyone is as smart and resourceful as me. The jealous haters have been personally attacking me since my first book and first column came out, which I was prepared for. You guys never would be.
I saw arci's name evoked again. Well, I'm more than happy to see that because it gives me another opportunity to slice and dice the professional internet liar. As you all know, his wife was very ill, so as a serious ap-vp addict what did he do? Keep her comfy at home? Nope. He dragged her thru casino after casino non-stop making her worse, even moving to LV for a while. He just couldn't stay away from the machines. She died a horrible death. Then his "what goes around comes around" lies came full circle, as his son bit the dust. A true bit of karma payback. Oh, he's probably eating dirt now too.
What we'll now see is a few of you saying how it's all lies, or how bad a person I am for taking advantage of financial loopholes, etc. etc. etc. as you people begin to feel kind of stupid for wasting your time with all that petty stuff. Not everybody belongs to your gambler's clubs folks. There are other methods out there for those willing to work in their lives, then willing to comprehend the tools available in life.
Wise up....except mickey. He knows everything.