"Sports Card Investing" vs Real Estate Investing. Not What You Think

[@TheSportsCardDad]

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[@kellycook5314]

Respect 🫡 you my friend but stability is undermined in the manufacturing & grading community … NVIDA & 🍏 are 6 trillion in market cap 🧢 and moving up strongly … congratulations 👏 on your real estate 🏡 investment but we both know it’s hard work 😓 … your gambling 🎰 offering is very important fact check on the current market … keep up the great work

[@ryanmcclanahan8739]

My biggest problem with real estate now is that young people can't afford to buy homes. Without getting political here, we know the factors that are driving up the costs and rates. We're the most indebted nation on Earth and everything is on the credit card, foot, rent and utilities are way up and the Stock Market has been inflated for at least 15 years. While sports cards arent a true investment meaning you're not going to pay capital gains taxes, and if you sell at shows and through private sales, you'll be avoiding the IRS too. There was a study done in 2004 looking at gold, the S&P and the T206 going back to 1975. The T206 outpaced the other two. Its still not a traditional investment, but you can make money. I just wish the hobby wouldn't be treated like Wall Street.

[@TheSportsCardDad]

Well said Ryan!

[@TheCardDeal]

People young and old can buy real estate. Inventory is low all across the U.S, but anyone telling you homeownership is unattainable is leading you in the wrong direction. Do not fall into debt, do not buy that expensive car. Build wealth and assets by setting a goal that will pay dividends. Real estate is a great spot for anyone to start.

[@cardboardcheddah3715]

The US allows corporations and foreigners to compete with individual citizens for residential property. We can’t just build more homes to compete with those deep pockets. That just feeds the beast. You have to change the laws 1st,imo.

[@planetawesome3575]

Yes, great comment. Remember that study 📖 👌

[@vintagecollector5340]

Housing market is through the roof; it's definitely not a good idea to get into real estate at these high prices/rates.

[@davidthecardcollector]

So your saying there's a chance

[@sando425]

Tell your wife you want to sell your rental property to buy a '52 Mantle and report back to us.

[@leehaskins307]

the main theory of this video is the money….. 20% of the collectors have 80% of the money in the hobby…. collecting and investing is the biggest part of the hobby.. not prospectors and gamblers.. they are the chump change getting eatin up… tho they did have a GREAT time during covid.. the gambling part if u were in for a year or so was great.. but thats over...

[@cardboardcheddah3715]

If you get a divorce your spouse gonna take half the house and you can keep the cards! IJS…think ahead people🤪

[@TheSportsCardDad]

lol 😆

[@Lebowski_Sports_Cards]

Modern problems require modern solutions. 🤣

[@brushben22]

To be fair, it’s been gambling since the second they made packs. Packs are a mini slot machine and they were designed that way. The difference is….. We have everything recorded and we see them open the boxes and packs daily. It was always this way and Ultimately even the gamblers will ultimately collect if history continues to help us see the future.

[@mywowcards]

I appreciate the way you put it...build it brick by brick. I think buffet said he wouldn't be known by very many if he had stopped building at age 60... But he didn't stop building his portfolio even now at age 90+

[@TheSportsCardDad]

Thanks for watching, and yes Buffett is the perfect example of what can happen 'building' over a long period of time

[@NYC-SA-Mike]

Great topic Dustin! Can't argue with your position and advice. Me? Don't care. I've got enough money to last me the rest of my life. Provided I go by next Monday. 😎 You always have some fun topics.

[@CaptainKett17]

Here's another unique investment for all you peeps. LEGO. Unopened LEGO sets have outperformed the S&P 500 for the 25 years. These whacky alternatives are valid. More for me if people want to pass and that's quite ok. Great video SCD. Love the content

[@vintagecollector5340]

Alternative investments are looked down on. That's because we've been taught to do traditional investing, and that anything outside of that, simply isn't an investment. Some sports cards and memorabilia can be great investments, too, but you'll run into many people who try to tell you different.

[@The047SportsTCGCards]

I buy tax lien certificates on properties at state tax auction every year with money I make on sports cards which locks into minimum of 18% profit on liens OR I get the actual property in default. Inflation has folks not paying their property taxes.

[@planetawesome3575]

Sports cards are getting hot again and we will see some major appreciations in the next few years. But, ONLY in certain areas of the hobby. Think rationally about who and what you collect...Print runs, notoriety, and condition always will determine future value. Think iconic inserts and RCs with limited populations or serial numbered volume.

[@tedjerdee1028]

Pretty sure Beenie babies were better than real estate at one point….

[@zachpierce641]

Call me crazy but I’ll take my returns on high end vintage over real estate I live in the town of 10,000. We have a couple companies pumping in thousands of jobs. Rent has tripled and houses have doubled since 2018ish I don’t see the floor falling out from under vintage, and it being worth nothing one day. I do see a couple companies, deciding they don’t want to be here anymore move out and all of a sudden estate prices plummet or supply rises so much the houses people are buying right now began to fall. I know my real estate example may only be my local area, but it’s not as much of a sure thing as everyone thinks . Just talked to my landlord. He just put money in a house someone trashed . If the house is paid off, it would take him about about seven years to recover the money in rent that he just put in that house

[@vintagecollector5340]

Just think of all the vintage you could buy within those seven years.

[@TheCardDeal]

You have to be willing to put in the work along with investment of money. Cards are the same IMO, put in the work and you have a great chance of success.

[@vintagecollector5340]

@@TheCardDeal Agreed. It takes alot of work. Not every card is a good investment, though, so alot of due diligence is needed. I enjoy investing, but mine is mostly in original photos.

[@TheCardDeal]

@@vintagecollector5340 Very cool. I always enjoy the various parts of collecting and seeing what others are into. That is what makes this all fun.

[@vintagecollector5340]

@@TheCardDeal Absolutely. I got into photos as a cheaper alternative to sports cards. Plus, they're much rarer and a fraction of the cost. I suspect it won't stay that way forever.

[@custum18]

I paid 85k in 2018 for a house in Ohio. It's worth double that now. None of my card purchases since 2018 gave those kind of returns after six years.

[@TheSportsCardDad]

You don't think any trading cards have doubled in price since 2018? I can point to many, and that's even after the 'card crash'

[@custum18]

What AVERAGE guy bought cards in 2018 that TODAY are worth 85k more a piece than they paid? We'd all be millionaires if that were the norm.

[@TheSportsCardDad]

@@custum18 well now your statements are changing. Did you also buy 85K sports cards that did not double from 2018? Plenty of trading card examples here for this, that have doubled. If your overall point is certain trading cards have not doubled in price from 2018, regardless of price point, I would disagree. Many many examples, tons

[@custum18]

The houses I've sold over the last six years allowed me to spend a few hundred thousand on vintage sports cards. Not the other way around.

[@TheSportsCardDad]

@@custum18 many many many vintage sports cards aren't only double what they cost in 2018, but triple/quadruple in many cases. Here's a random one I just pulled up. Hank Aaron RC PSA 5. 2018 its 2K. Today its 5K, and that's even after coming down dramatically from the card boom. The overall point is whether you bought certain trading cards or certain real estate, you are most likely way up from 2018

[@80sStarBasketball]

wow - I think I said verbatum some of your points 5 months ago in one of my vids on sports cards as an investment. too funny

[@vintagecollector5340]

Great video. Theres alot of similarities between real estate investing and sports card investing. You could spend a fortune on a Jordan or Mays rookie card, just like you can a house. Real estate involves alot of maintenance, especially if you end up with bad tenants. I had family involved in real estate and it was an absolute nightmare. Getting bad tenants is all it takes to turn you against real estate. It could end up costing you alot of money, just the same as if you might overpay for a sports card. Assuming you didnt overpay for a card like a Jordan or Mays rookie, though, then youre likely in a safe place. No further maintenance is required. Youre done until you decide to buy that next GOAT. Nobody is there to trash on your investment, unless you get that crazy vindictive girlfriend/wife who is determined to make your life hard when she don't get her way.

[@planetawesome3575]

Sports cards can be great investments if you buy cards that are rare and sought after. Same thing as real estate. People get caught buying too many of the cheap stuff, packs, common cards, etc.

[@vintagecollector5340]

@@planetawesome3575 Absolutely. The thing that most people don't understand, though, is that it doesn't have to be expensive to be an investment. Most items I've bought have been less than a hundred-dollars, and contrary to popular belief, they can actually make the best investments. That's because there's plenty of room for the item to appreciate in value. I mostly purchase original photos, and I've acquired rookies of: Mike Schmidt, Cal Ripken Jr (including his 1982 Donruss image), Willie Mays, Ernie Banks (1954 Topps batting pose stance), Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Akeem Olajuwon, etc. Yes, all these were under a hundred-dollars a piece. Some were even less than twenty-dollars. Best part is that they all should qualify as a type 1 photo. Since the market is still untapped with alot of uneducated people, there's bargains everywhere. The hobby is filled with idiots. Everywhere I turn, I constantly hear people crying about being priced out of the hobby or how the hobby cannot be an investment. Truth is, these people just simply don't know where to look for deals in the hobby.

[@vintagecollector5340]

@@planetawesome3575 Absolutely. There's a big misconception, however, that an item must be hundreds to thousands of dollars in value to meet the criteria of an "investment". This just simply isn't true at all. Most of what I buy is original photos that's less than a hundred-dollars, and contrary to popular belief, they make the best investments. Why? Because the cheaper they are, the more room they have to appreciate. The best part is that I've managed to buy top-tier HOF in that price range, which includes rookies of; Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Ken Griffey Jr, Mike Schmidt, Cal Ripken (including his 1982 Donruss image), Ernie Banks (including his 1954 Topps batting pose image), George Brett, Jordan, Olajuwon, Larry Bird, etc. There's bargains still in these untapped markets, but most people aren't willing to put in the work to educate themselves.

[@vintagecollector5340]

@@planetawesome3575 Absolutely. There's a big misconception, however, that an item must be hundreds to thousands of dollars in value to meet the criteria of an "investment". This just simply isn't true at all. Most of what I buy is original photos that's less than a hundred-dollars, and contrary to popular belief, they make the best investments. Why? Because the cheaper they are, the more room they have to appreciate. The best part is that I've managed to buy top-tier HOF in that price range, which includes rookies of; Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Mike Schmidt, Cal Ripken (including his 1982 Donruss image), Ernie Banks (including his 1954 Topps batting pose image), George Brett, Jordan, Olajuwon, Larry Bird, etc. There's bargains still in these untapped markets, but most people aren't willing to put in the work to educate themselves.

[@vintagecollector5340]

@@planetawesome3575 Absolutely. There's a big misconception, however, that an item must be hundreds to thousands of dollars in value to meet the criteria of an "investment". This just simply isn't true at all. Most of what I buy is original photos that's less than a hundred-dollars, and contrary to popular belief, they make the best investments. Why? Because the cheaper they are, the more room they have to appreciate. The best part is that I've managed to buy top-tier HOF in that price range, which includes rookies of; Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Mike Schmidt, Cal Ripken (including his 1982 Donruss image), Ernie Banks (including his 1954 Topps batting pose image), George Brett, Jordan, Olajuwon, Larry Bird, etc. There's bargains still in these untapped markets, but most people aren't willing to put in the work to educate themselves.

[@Thecardgame1]

Well said!

[@TheSportsCardDad]

Thanks!

[@rudistorm3348]

Buying packs are clearly not investments. But buying a Jordan RC PSA graded yeah that is an investment. Just my humble opinion.

[@TheSportsCardDad]

Thanks for sharing Rudi!

[@planetawesome3575]

100% agree. That Jordan will at least 2x in the next ten years.

[@aaroncookson5335]

But buying sealed and/or graded wax packs and boxes (and keeping them sealed) can be a great investment. Just as SCD mentioned in this video (2003-04 basketball boxes).

[@PickSixCards]

Morning SCD

[@TheSportsCardDad]

Morning Pick Six!

[@kamikazesportscardhybrid6243]

Trickle up economics

[@Wootensportscards]

Another day another SCD video .. 🔥

[@TheSportsCardDad]

🙌

[@kellycook5314]

Sportscards aren’t a legitimate investment . Nvidia is . Get the investment attitude out of collecting & the joy will return. Manufacturers & grading try to steal any potential future profits up front by ridiculing overpriced cards & upcharging .

[@rudistorm3348]

Not saying I disagree with you. But what makes an investment legit?

[@vintagecollector5340]

​@@rudistorm3348Yeah, I want to hear how a Jordan, Mays, or Mantle rookie isn't an investment.

[@rudistorm3348]

@@vintagecollector5340 exactly

[@tubenachos]

This is how poor people talk.

[@cardboardcheddah3715]

You need everyone in the hobby and collector or investor nobody wants to see their possessions have zero to no value to others. You just enjoy the hobby however you want and don’t worry about me and others,imo.

[@leehaskins307]

real estate has been good to me.. my first condo was 85k…. my current home is valued at 1.5 million.. i’m thinking real estate is pretty good...

[@planetawesome3575]

Real estate is solid 👌 investment.

[@leehaskins307]

@@planetawesome3575 yeah I think it is…. and leverage in a loan makes it even better… and lower taxes makes it even better.. real estate thru my live other then hitting a big stock name is the best investment.. u dont have to hit the best real estate.. it all keeps going up….

[@hhenry76]

What a waste of time on sports cards. Who the F care. Move on people

[@johnwayne9828]

@5:30......you are gambling.....no matter how you try to spin it, when you're dropping 4 and 5 figures on pieces of cardboard, you're making a HUGE gamble. One that those of us who've been in the hobby long enough, know not to make. And if "investors" outnumber collectors, hows that a model to make money? Who are all these "investors" going to sale their cards to?

[@TheSportsCardDad]

Keep watching the video, there's more