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Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018?

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Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018?

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I developed a trading model on https://www.portfolio123.com for my own personal use but that I later decided to open to subscribers. P123 calls them Designer Models and they're offered under a publishing model were subscribers assume responsibility for whether or not actual trades are made.

Subscription revenue is about $500/month.

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018?

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About $2000 a month of pure passive income coming in from a diversified index fund portfolio (us + international + reit + small cap value) under the form of dividends. It’s somewhat more consistent than the appreciation/depreciation of the underlying securities due to the recent volatility, and I get the distribution straight into my bank account, which I usually just reinvest since I have a full time job that easily…

How much capital is driving that?

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018?

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About $2000 a month of pure passive income coming in from a diversified index fund portfolio (us + international + reit + small cap value) under the form of dividends. It’s somewhat more consistent than the appreciation/depreciation of the underlying securities due to the recent volatility, and I get the distribution straight into my bank account, which I usually just reinvest since I have a full time job that easily…

How much capital is driving that?

Roughly $1M.

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018?

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post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Couldn't that be covered with a decently written contract though?

Cant collect damages if the tenant is flat broke :/

Yeah, that's the problem. Tenant stops paying, illegally sublets the place, then disappears, and by the time you finally got their stuff out you've lost a year of rent and had to pay their utilities.

It's not that common, but it's a possible outcome, and a contract won't help even a little bit.

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018?

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Alright. I'll be that guy. I look at your list of side projects and I see nothing that's remotely passive. They all look like tons of work! My best passive income this year is my index funds -- for instance, the S&P 500 is up 3.9% year-to-date, and I've cumulatively spent under an hour this year thinking about it. Hard to imagine what else besides investments qualifies as passive. Maybe real estate? But how passive t…

and then there is depression and the market fell off by 50%

OP specified 2018. Different years would give different numbers.

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018?

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post #95

Wrote my first ebook about CSS last November [1]. With little marketing, I sold hundreds in the first few months, and after a year it’s still bringing around $500/month. I’m thinking about writing a new one, but I’m not sure about the topic. [1] https://jgthms.com/css-in-44-minutes-ebook

How did you market it?

Mostly through Twitter and my newsletter.

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018?

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post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Each book is passive income. I'd consider a prolific author as someone that makes a series of passive income intellectual properties.

I guess with such a generous definition of "passive income", anything is passive income. I mean I'm still getting paid for the features I wrote for my company's software two years ago!

If you're getting paid for things you're not ACTIVELY working for, guess what... that's PASSIVE.
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