Mike Scanlan

There's this United plane that hops across islands all over the pacific from Hawaii to Guam. HNL-MAJ-KWA-KSA-PNI-TKK-GUM. This is the story of the #United #IslandHopper #UA15 #AvGeek #Micronesia #Guam @united mikertw.com/island-hopping…

@DallasAptGP It's why deeds need to be recorded on an immutable digital ledger that can't be hacked, forged, or tampered with. Ever heard of one? Here's a hint: Bitcoin is based on one called blockchain. All property should be blockchain based ASAP. This would stop overnight.

In Texas, a criminal can steal your $6,000,000 building for $30 in cash. No ID required. No background check. Just a forged signature and a trip to the county clerk. In 2022, this happened to two of our buildings. If you own real estate, you are a target. The Texas county recording system runs on a "notice" basis. The clerk’s job is to record documents. Not verify them. A criminal created a fake deed for two of our assets. They used a cut-and-paste notary stamp pulled from a different public record. They used a courier to send the documents into the clerk’s office. The courier handed over the forged paper and paid $30 in cash. The clerk accepted the document. No driver's license. No signature check. The public record showed a Delaware LLC owned my property. $6 million in equity vanished from the legal chain of title in seconds. Once a criminal controls the deed, they have two moves. They sell the property to an unsuspecting buyer and disappear with the cash. Or they get a hard money loan against it, collect the proceeds, and vanish. Either way, they try to be long gone before you find out. I found out during a refinance. My title company called with a question: "Why did you quitclaim these buildings to a new entity?" I hadn't. I contacted the Dallas Police Department, the FBI, and the Texas Secretary of State. Every agency gave the same answer: they are overwhelmed with this type of fraud and didn't have the time or resources to pursue it. The criminals hide behind Delaware shells and registered agents. The county takes cash, so there is no bank trail. There is no ID requirement, so there is no face for the cameras. Most investors assume their title policy covers this. It does not. Standard title insurance covers defects that existed before you closed. It guarantees you received a clean deed at purchase. It does nothing for crimes committed after. This is a gap in your risk management you did not know you had. It took 90 days of legal work to fix. The "new owner" was a ghost. I had to file a lawsuit to quiet the title. I spent $20,000 in legal fees and secured a default judgment because the criminals never showed up to court (obviously). I won. But I am out $20,000 and three months of sleep. Criminals hunt three targets: raw land, free-and-clear buildings, and estate properties. A mortgage acts as a tripwire because banks flag transfers. If you own your assets outright, you are defenseless. Here is what I did after this happened to me: Property alerts. Most counties offer a free service that emails you when a document is recorded against your parcel number. Sign up for every asset you own. This costs nothing. Entity audits. Make sure your Secretary of State filings are current. Criminals look for lapsed registrations and "zombie" entities to find their next target. Push for policy change. State legislatures are starting to act. The law must require a government-issued ID to record a transfer of real property. It is insane that it does not.

I organized this trip with Adam and about 12 of our friends. The experience is something you can't begin to put into words. But @adamross has this ability to tell stories like nobody else, so follow him to hear about it.

@ursa_maritima You have a link to your profile here on your Facebook that I never saw before. I have like four X accounts -- this is the "Personal/Mike" one. I'd prefer if you didn't see the few others. lol

@MikeFive0 how did you know it was me? 😅

@KaptanBaha747 @IshrionA Pretty good. It was, yes. Now without looking at ChatGPT or Google, anyone guess the longest domestic flight in the entire world? 👀 (DON'T CHEAT; BE FUN!)

@IshrionA Someone correct me if I am wrong but I think HNL - BOS was the longest domestic route.

Hawaiian Airlines announces it will discontinue 3 long-haul routes: • Honolulu (HNL) to Boston (BOS) from November 19 • Honolulu (HNL) to Fukuoka (FUK) from November 19 • Honolulu (HNL) to Seoul (ICN) from November 21

@smalls2672 She has every incentive to dish out everything she knows to get out of jail -- omitting Trump and his associates, of course.

The fix is in

@Matt_Pinner I did this last month. Drove through my hometown in a convertible with the top down on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. Looked at all the changes. Winded through all the roads. So many memories.

Does anybody ever go back to their old street and the house they grew up in just to remember how things were back then?

@tyler Tyler: New York City is one of the most successful cities in the history of mankind and on the planet. It's one of the world's capital and it hums along every single day with people building empires, success everywhere you turn, etc. Calm down man. You need perspective.

A lot of people have asked me if I will get involved in the NYC mayor race by supporting a candidate that can defeat Zohran Mamdani. TBH, I’m torn and undecided. Like every other city run by democrats, NYC is a broken kleptocracy. Taxes are astronomical and services are pathetic to nonexistent. Anarchy and socialism are the next logical steps in this story arc. It's what the people of NYC have been asking for for years and it looks like it's what they are about to get. Trying to fight against this tide seems like throwing good money after bad. It appears things will have to get worse in NYC before they get better. The Zoomers and Millennials need a refresher on the outcome of Marxism and socialism. They are too young to remember the crack and crime epidemic and murder sprees of the late 80's and early 90's. The squeegee men, graffiti, mugging, lawlessness, chaos, and pandemonium. Streets that were too unsafe to walk alone at night or even during the day. Getting mugged on the way to and from school was not just a rite of passage, it was an inevitability. The Wall Streeters, financiers, and hedge funders have been too busy working on their fishponds and climbing the rungs of polite society to remember to protect the system that allowed them to achieve their success in the first place and allowed New York City to once become the greatest city in the world. Not ruffling feathers was more important than questioning the ideological insanity being taught in the private schools and universities that they sent their kids to. All that mattered was fitting in and getting invited to the right dinner parties. Now their kids are indoctrinated NPCs, always protesting and supporting the current thing. Like their parents, they too want to fit in. To do so, they unironically exchange bromides and platitudes on the benefits of socialism over rosé brunches in the West Village. Because their friends hate America and capitalism, they do too. It never dawns on them that their lifestyle and studio apartment that their parents subsidize are all made possible because of capitalism. This delusional thinking was ingrained in them at an early age by institutions that were captured by insane ideology and left unchecked by their grossly negligent parents. Instead of providing their children with immunity from stupid and provably bad ideas that have only led to misery and death throughout history, these parents shrugged it off as kids will be kids. Now these kids are adults who can vote, but are totally unequipped to do so. In many ways it’s not their fault. From their parents, they learned some combination of magical thinking, preference falsification, and an inability to stand up for anything greater than themselves. As a result, they never learned how to think critically or independently. They never learned the value of Western civilization so they don't understand why, or know how, to fight for it. Sometimes the only way to learn something is to learn it the hard way. Sometimes the only way to learn the value of what you have is to lose it. If that’s the case, Marxism and socialism might just be what the doctor ordered.

@redwood_ryan_a @RepDustyJohnson The question that needs to be answered is: Who do we owe? We print the USD that the world uses and we own the casino. That's gonna change quick. What happens when people have programmable money and can dictate where their tax dollars are spent? 🤣

@RepDustyJohnson One of the only policy items that Americans agree on (78%), and Republicans even more so (91%), is that reducing deficit is a priority. This bill expands the deficit. I don’t see how you can frame this as a conservative win.

The One Big, Beautiful Bill is PACKED with common-sense, conservative wins. Here are 32 examples.

Just went through the process to transfer underlying bank accounts on the @mercury. OH. MY. GOD. It was so seamless and easy and beautiful. If you're running a company and you're not using Mercury, don't walk but run to open an account. 😍 💵 🪙 🙏 😎

@ProtonMail OMG. 🤣😂😜🤪#MicDrop

But those accounts belong to other people...right?

@digitalkyle @AmericanAir Was this reported to the in-flight crew at the time? What did they say? How does anyone know that the person taking the picture didn't simply spill water on purpose, photograph it, and is trying to get a refund from the airline as part of a scam?

@AmericanAir I was forced to sit in some unknown liquid on flight 2459 in seat 1A which is your flagship first offering. Is this how first class should be? Oh and I contacted customer relation to say hey we are sorry. Where is my refund?

@RobProvince My doc did this. Boston Direct Health. Was with him from the start when he was working out of his kitchen and living room. Built an entire practice around it. Best healthcare around and worth every cent. I'd pay him double what he charges ha. bostondirecthealth.com

Had my first appointment with my doctor of 20 years now that he’s private practice. Visits are now 30 minuets not 5. Three visits a year minimum, not one that’s a suggestion. 24/7 on call service. On site lab & radiology. Call backs are under an hour.

@jarrylew USD. We can spend and print and bankrupt because we own the casino that the world plays in with our currency. It won’t last forever, but that’s the genuine answer.

All I ever hear is how expensive everything is and how everyone lives paycheck to paycheck Yet Disney is slammed, concerts sell out in seconds, and golf has never cost more to play. How is it possible that everyone is broke but spending remains red hot? Who is lying here? “It’s all on credit cards” Yes, to an extent. But that has always been true. It doesn’t add up.

@MistahScratch @mcuban You know what's hilarious? I'm reading your post on a generic (Kuycon) Chinese Apple Studio 5K Display. Apple sells for $1900. I paid $700. Same factory. Same exact monitor. You just have to know where to find the links/source. :)

This completely neglects "brand" and "marketing". Not that you'd know much about that as you've never created a successful branded product. But brand and marketing are key. If the Chinese could sell "generic" products (not through a brand) at the same rate as a company, who has a product manufacturer in China, but has a brand could, then they would've cut out the middle man to begin with. Consumers are not savvy enough to know that the generic is the same as the brand. That's why branded products have always sold at a higher rate and volume before and regardless of "tariffs"... It's literally Business 101.

The devil is in the details. Let’s say a Chinese company sells shoes directly on Amazon, TEMU, SHEIN and ALI BABA. And they sell the same shoes to US importers , who add their own brand and sell on Amazon The Chinese company will sell to its subsidiary Company, that retails and delivers products in the USA, on all of those apps for much less than they sell to the American company Because they sell to themselves for a lower price than to the US company , they pay a lower tariff. So they have a huge pricing advantage. So the Tariffs give the Chinese company an advantage over the American companies that import their products. And just about every Chinese company does this. So switching manufacturers doesn’t remove the problem. There needs to be cost parity after tariffs are applied.

You won't see this, but to the dude from Singapore who sang this Cantonese version in a karaoke bar in Hong Kong last week just for the big white American in the room, I just want to say THANK YOU. You made my trip! #starship #cantonese #HongKong #karaoke youtube.com/watch?v=-t4Y7L…

@tferriss You know what Quicken has new personal finance web tools these days. Switched from monarch to them recently. They’re doing well again!!

Has anyone used Monarch Money? If so, from 0-10 (no 7 allowed), how strongly would you recommend and why? Thanks! 🙏

Yo @MightyText -- Any chance you might be able to put me in touch with your Founder?

@cp7zpsf5fv Worlds of connections open up when you do this and are genuine.

@Ivantheboomer @YouTubeTV I do. I'm just commenting on this post because it was trending. I cancelled my YouTubeTV subscription last year. I get the content I want from the platforms of the studios directly. Local channels over the air with a free antenna. Free DVR software/box. etc.

@MikeFive0 @YouTubeTV Why don't you do it already?

For our members: We work hard to bring you the content you love, delivered the way you want. Despite our best efforts, we’ve been unable to reach a fair deal with Paramount to keep their channels on YouTube TV and their channels may be unavailable tomorrow. yt.be/ytvblog (1/2)