Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for November 29, 2023

One surprise after another. Does Gus also have a book deal going?

Those are starting to look like $100 cigars.

Gus is a real estate mogul? Wow!

BLAH, BLAH, BLAH!!! And that has to do with what??

In other words Arlo whatever property you decide to buy here, I own.

My question, is Gus very wealthy, and does his daughter know about it?

She, her daughter and husband have been busting their tuchuses, trying to earn a dollar, it appears they don’t.

Something something inheritance fortune something

The “Land” is king. Own it and you control everything. Looking forward to seeing where this goes.

So it’s his fault that you can drive through Destin (or other similar places) along the road next to the beach and not be able to see the ocean

Now I know what happened to Pensacola Beach. Used to be wonderful. Now a ticky-tacky hell hole

Every capitalists excuse to get money

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.

Don’t read “Crankshaft”. Most of the readers there just leave hate comments.

You, Gus owns the building his condo is in.

The whole country is a joke now, why should the “comics” be any different?

Has anyone read the novel Trust? Sounds like Gus has shades of Benjamin Rask. Given what Arlo stands for, he needs to move his seat away. Go home and hug Luddie.

How ‘bout a discussion thread that wasn’t started by a troll? I wonder how much real estate Gus is talking about!

In other words. He’s very wealthy…..

Maybe he will just buy his house and sell his condo or maybe just trade. He could always just lease his house.

Gus reminds me of the cliche mafia Don!

Hard to believe, but in 1935 Florida’s population was just about 1.6 million.

yep and now the housing market is out of reach for many middle class families.

“The world was bound for destruction anyway, so I just joined in. It won’t make any difference one way or the other five billion years from now.”

Arlo seems lost…………….?

money ruins everything… especially people

George Washington Plunkitt used his inside knowledge of the plans for acquiring land for the expansion of the New York City water system to enrich himself by buying up land and selling it to the city at a profit while serving as a New York City official. He justified his actions by explaining the difference between “graft” and “honest graft”, declaring that what he did constituted the latter, and further remarking, “I seen my opportunities and I took ‘em.” William Riordan’s book, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, has it all in Plunkitt’s own words. (Available as an audiobook on Audible.com.) My point is, Gus is taking the exact same moral position.

People, it’s a cartoon. Nobody “knows” anything until JJ fills in the word balloon! Get real!

I remember visiting Myrtle Beach in 1976 when I was stationed in Charleston. To say it’s grown is an understatement. Same for Daytona Beach. Florida is being rapidly paved over.

He’s also been thru a few divorces. Won some loose some pay some

The “quaint” fishing village where I live on the Oregon coast (Newport) has a population over 10,000 todayl

40 years in commercial real estate as a banker in mid size markets (250,000-400,000 people).one of the suprises was I kept meeting rich people who had been in the plant nursery business. Their answer was, you go 3 miles past the edge of a growing town, buy a corner tract on a couple of well traveled but empty roads. Run your business barely above starvation level for 35 years then sell to McDonalds what has become a very busy corner amid a bustling suburb of town.

SSI, B’wick, Jekyll, even Darien here in this coastal area. Pretty sad!