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Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?

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Re: Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?

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Same as last year. High-dividend stocks and ETFs. Everything else (including my rental property) is a lot less "passive" than most people think.

My personal opinion is that retail investors love dividend stocks and they are more expensive than non-dividend stocks.

Further to this, I have strong preference for firms which re-invest their cash flow resulting in capital gains which is much more tax efficient than a dividend.

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Kernl ( https://kernl.us ) - WordPress Plugin/Theme Updates, Git Deployment, Analytics, Load Testing, etc. Currently around $1200/month with fairly linear growth. It's a fun project to work on and I get to make money on the side for doing it.

This seems to be more active than passive.

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https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/level-design/mod...

Launched this a few months ago. I've made about $14 a month. In terms of return on investment I would have been better picking up pennies in the street, but it was a fun side project. Also, haven't done any real marketing yet... All sales have been organic discoveries through Unity store.

Re: Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?

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Not what you were looking for but real estate (mostly rental) has been and remains my primary passive income.

You don’t have to do work as a landlord?

Many people can outsource to management companies that handle this for you in exchange for a percentage. I've seen averages around 10%, with some outliers (PenFed credit union I believe?) doing 7%.

Re: Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?

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I run a business automation services site (https://www.mergeyourdata.com/). Basically I build an automation for small businesses and schedule them to run. Took years of learning the ins and outs of the biggest pain point areas for businesses and the technical solutions that would solve those. The learning all pretty much took place at my regular day job and I was just able to expand on those lessons.
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