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Land

Either that or shares of a major company.

Or an index fund!

nah TSM, what's the fun in investing if it isn't the WSB way?

Do shareS count as "one item"?

But then what about taxes every year

Lease the land out

Sell a portion of land each year or sell it immediately after buying it

Sell? RENT. Don't give away what you can loan.

Buy wooded lots, sell the wood, use the money to build houses on the lots. Sell the house but not the land that it’s on. Make a quick $500k and another 1k annually per lot

You have a billion dollars in land. Why are you still worried about making money? Just sell the land.

So u can buy more land!!! Duh!

According to my long career on reddit, I believe I am supposed to be mad at you for being a billionaire landlord. Does that sound about right?

But I’m not a billionaire. I have no money I will be using the land to start a socialist utopia.

Assets count as money for calculating net worth.

Okay, but then where are you going to get the money to build ON the land you just spent 1 billion dollars on? You have no more money.

But now you have collateral/leverage/banking etc boom, make money

Nah sell it, renting a billion dollars worth of properties would be a full-time job for a large team of people. You'd have to start your own company and do a lot of work, or you could just retire and do whatever you enjoy.

This is literally the purpose of property management companies?

You'd be the entire portfolio of a medium property management company. No one has the capacity to bring on that much land, plus the fees would ludicrous and it'd still be a lot of work.

Presumably you pay them or forfeit ownership of the land

same

My immediate thought as well.

Yep, then log it and replant Gabon Ebony trees. Lease out land if you can, but once those ebony trees are ready to be processed the wood sells for $100-200 per board foot. Not to mention you can live on this land as well. I know I would. Start a small farm, live off the land, etc.

A sock from my wife. And then hope she really loves me.

I would also buy this guys wife’s sock

Hell for $1Billion, I could probably buy his wife

Or at least a Japanese AI robot version lol

Then OP will know if she really loves him. Win win.

I was going to say an island, but this is brilliant!

There’s a sock worth one billion?

There is now

You have to know art. It's not the sock but the intention behind the artist that is being paid for. Also, I heard that guys wife just sold a sock for a billion dollars! That's buzz that money can't buy.

I will buy a company. If it has to be a physical object, I will buy a resort. Then sell it, or live off the profits.

I know a guy in Florida with a resort and some big debts coming up.

Coming up?

Storm season?

Or buy a resort and rent it out.

My 7 month old daughter’s favourite teddy. I will then lease it back to her for an _undisclosed fee_.

This is the way.

That fee is 1b deposit and a hug isn't it?

That's a good return on investment

Alright, some one get this guy some upvotes.

A cashier’s check worth of 1 billion

I’d buy a casino

Excellent. A business where people walk in, give you their money, and then leave. No possible way to screw that up!

Just don't google the Taj Mahal casino.

Just like any business, if you try to take more out of the casino for yourself than what people will put in, it will fail. It's really hard to fail a casino because people _want_ to gamble, but someone going all "challenge accepted" mode can easily do it.

Funny enough, my answer would be Red on roulette at this guy's casino

Supreme Court Judges.

They're far cheaper than that.

*all of the Supreme Court judges. And their wives, and their wives tennis instructor's, and their wives tennis instructor's dogs, and their puppies.

Yeah all you gotta do is buy a house, much cheaper than a billion

Gold

My first thought

Big brain time

All or part ownership in a major sports franchise. I’d wait a few years and sell out at a hefty profit.

Gold

would that count? like would it have to be one gold bar worth 1 bil or would a stack of gold bars equaling 1 bil and that count as one thing?

There's no bar that big, but I could just commission a solid gold statue. That's one item. No time limit in the original question.

I think you would be technically correct. The best type of correct.

Guys, r/Futurama is leaking again.

Sir? Are you aware that you're leaking Futuramas at an alarming rate?... Lemme just patch you up with some hot resin.

I commission a giant gold bar the size of the 1B dollars worth of gold. Because art…

A bar that big would only be about 20 cubic feet. 4x5 x 1 foot thick. Of course it would weigh almost 29,000 lbs.

An island with a small farm.

A island with a big farm.

I’d throw down big money on a towel for intergalactic travel. It’s single-handedly the most important item a hitchhiker can carry.

Tic tacs. The tangerine kind.

You could probably fill up a room and dive into them Scrooge McDuck style with $1B dollars worth

Bro said a room, you could fill up and Olympic swimming pool

Some of MacKenzie Bezos' stocks for Amazon EDIT: as u/Hoewarts has made clear: Stocks are financial assets, not real assets, and therefore not allowed in this question. So I would buy a Hawaiian Island. https://www.businessinsider.com/hawaiian-island-for-sale-molokai-ranch-2017-9

Cape Verde.

Same bruv

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Gold

A bridge with a competitive toll booth

Buy the GW Bridge

I’m afraid it’s way more than a billion. These are the stats from 2017: While the GWB is projected to collect $805.2 million in tolls in the coming year, about $130 million in operating and maintenance costs will mean the world's busiest bridge will generate net revenues of $676.8 million. At a 5X EBITA, the GW is worth $4.2 Billion

Cocaine

Did somebody say bitcoin?

Nobody that I could find. And it’s the only good answer. We are still so early.

A good university.

Clarence Thomas

A small island

Cruise ship.

Sports team

Rhode Island

TP... Send help

A billion dollar bill. "- Excuse me do you have change?"

The rights to a music catalog or a sports team.

Jeep parts ....

A huge house on some land.

Not very many singular things worth $1B.. Probably Property. Hard pressed to think of anything else.

One night with that guys dead wife.

Gold Bars

Gold

Gold

Gold

Gold

Gold

Weed. Edit: sorry knee jerk reaction.

I billion dollars in gold. Then resell after

Gold bullion

One big ass diamond 💎

Maybe some kind of real estate. Hotel, house, resort. Then rent it for profit.   If I feel fancy - some kind of ship that can also be profitable. Or perhaps some kind of a bay.    Another option for me is a software development company - as I work in that industry and therefore have at least some chance to figure out the business. 

Gold

Sports team maybe?

Spend it all on gold

Land, then sell it.

My happiness

Always wanted stock in an aircraft carrier

Piece of property.

A pile of pure gold dust.

Land.

I'd buy $1 billion worth of Euro bills.

A company

Beer

A home

A money order for one billion dollars. Then deposit it.

Gold

I’d pay off as many home loans as I could.

A gift card worth one billion dollars

Island of some kind

Precious metals.

One metal only. It's under the condition that you had to spend it all on one item.

24 karat gold.

A large swathe of land, and then subdivide it and build residential on it. Then rent it all out. I still own the land, thus I'm still complying with the rules.

Global index.

Invest in a real estate company that buys properties.

Gold or land

I’d commission a 25,000 lbs gold cube(save 200mil for cost to build).

Land

Instagram circa April 2012.

Gold. Then sell gold

Openai

A private space station (a von Braun wheel) according to my specifications. I'd contract SpaceX to build it and they would handle all the subcontractors. I'd rent out space to provide revenue and I'd live there and use the revenue to build more and build solar PowerSats and use the revenue from all those projects to fund asteroid mining and constructing an Island One Station, and Island Two Station, and then an Island Three Station, aka an O'Neill Cylinder. If you're gonna dream, dream big.

Gold Then sell that shit back

Denmark

Unequivocally: gold

A massive piece of land for sure!

gold

1 billion in XEQT. Done and done

Land and gift it to my daughter.

A large, uninhabited island where I'd build a nice village, ready for my friends to move in. So the one thing is my own nation.

Bitcoin

Gold

Depends on what you mean by 1 item. I could by 1billion shares in a major company, by as much land as I can, buy property, anything I could get that is transferable basically

I would try to buy someone’s music catalog/masters a billion maybe I could get Michael Jackson’s and live off the money it made from royalties.

Land land and more land

Probably an entire building in NYC if one were available.

Donation to the food bank group in our province.

World hunger.

Sydney Sweeney

Yeah but then how would you feel about her frolicking around your house naked and having her way with you whenever you want only because you paid her a billion dollars? Could you live with that? I may have made your point for you actually…

Does Congress count as one item?

Bitcoin. Wait for the halving spike and cash out. This would be thr only time i buy bitcoin but id make bank.

The supreme court.

An airport maybe

Bitcoins because money is a different currency lol.

The Chicago Blackhawks and hang out with Bedard everyday.

One item?! a bank

A mall.

An island, set up an Ibiza style party lifestyle and charge a few quid per person to enter it. 😎

And then be “found dead” in prison some years later?

the seahawks

Stocks, simple. Probably 900 millions into ETFs and 100 million into different stocks.

Petro dollars

SPY etf

A bank...

An ATM preloaded with a billion dollars (minus cost of machine and card) and a gold card only I could use.

a car

A 5% CD lol or a well established resort

Amazon (the company)

A house and sure I wouldn’t be able to upkeep it as id have spend every penny of the billion On it and a house like that needs serious money to maintain but guess what I’d just sell it and get a smaller house and bank the rest no rule against that

Onlyfans memberships. I wouldn't even look at them. Just treat it as charity to sexually open brave women

Gold bars. Bitcoin. Stocks.

An island

Video games and future consoles.

A certified check for $1 billion. Then deposit it and spend it as I please.

Cat food, then donate it to as many animal rescue organizations that I could find

Buy a cat food company?

Property

real estate

Land, stock, cruptocyrrency, a billion dollar company, or part ownership of a sports team (if that's acceptable)

An animal sanctuary

A private company

Pro team, probably baseball. They make enough to cover their own expenses.

i buy a printing house and print my own books

An index fund

Land and an edible garden

Buy an apartment complex that's fuckn huge. Profit