Homeless Man Leaves Behind Surprise: $4 Million
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Reminds me of this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1314070/Eileen-Nearn...
Imagine being a spy in WW2, dropped into occupied France, captured by the Gestapo, put in prison camps and repeatedly escaping and never mentioning it to anyone!
That seems masterful to me.
What you may not be aware of is how difficult it is to perform certain types of financial transactions without a permanent address. Trading in stocks, for example. Quite often you need to do certain things in person and need to provide identification, which in turn may require a fixed address.
He may have been using the seniors centre as his address, he may have been doing something else.
The key here isn't that he was homeless and used the telephone in the senior's centre, the key is that he was homeless and used the telephone in the senior's centre AND managed an investment portfolio.
How would people on HN organise themselves without any permanent address...or by the looks of it, laptop/smart phone/access to computer, whilst tending to a portfolio that would end up being in excess of $4 million?
I guess she doesn't believe in the existence of, say, India or China or Japan either?