If you were given 1 million dollars...

Hypothetically, if you were to receive $1,000,000, how would you go about investing this money? Would you quit your job and try and do your own thing? Would you invest passively into the stock market? how much would you keep in cash etc.?

Would this be enough money for you to jumpstart your own company if that is a goal of yours?

Any specific plan of how you would leverage 1MM into a downpayment for CRE and which asset type/strategy you would take to start your own "empire." I am aware that 1MM isn't a lot of money in the world of commercial real estate, but my question is geared towards how you'd make best use of the money as an entrepreneur and reap the rewards in the future as a long-term play. Once the money is fully deployed, what's next?

any creative thinkers out there?

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I'd buy a condo in which I could do two chicks at the same time.

I come from down in the valley, where mister when you're young, they bring you up to do like your daddy done

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