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6 Retirement Essentials (Most people only prepared 2 or 3)

I'm planning for retirement most people focus 
mostly on marshaling together enough money you   know Financial Resources so that they can last 
the distance and then maybe at the back of their   heads they have some vague plan right perhaps 
two or three things to fill the time with a lot   of the times this is stuff like travel family 
well unfortunately I'm gonna say that's not   quite nearly enough for Preparation we ourselves 
have been retired for two years and going looking   back on the past two years I kind of see like 
six essential things that if you prep for it   beforehand before your retirement starts I think 
this can really make such a positive difference   to your retirement so that's what I wanted 
to bring up and discuss with you guys today   number one first and foremost of course we have 
to talk about money most people's concern is the   amount of money that they have in retirement 
whether it will last them till the end come   comfortably and allow them to afford the Hobbies 
like travel good food Etc but I actually think   after going through the last two years building up 
our financial Acumen is just as important if not   more so what do I mean by Financial Acumen I mean 
stuff like budgeting tracking projecting investing   I mean if you think about it the money in your 
bank account can always be squandered we all   know that story I think more importantly what's 
going to make your retirement more fireproof is   having an ability to generate more money where 
it came from in the first place so the second   essential thing that you can prepare for so that 
you have a wonderful retirement it's definitely   the ability to be self-directing and disciplined 
self-direction definitely helps so much with   spending your retirement days meaningfully right 
after all there are no more like work schedules   or like demands from colleagues or bosses to help 
shape your days anymore you have to be the person   to take charge in retirement there's a study out 
there actually that shows that for happily retired   folks most of them actually have about 3.6 core 
Pursuits that's what they say and the unheably   retired folks tend to have less than 3.6 corporate 
suits coming in at about 1.9 call Pursuits that's   what the study reflected I guess it kind of just 
shows in retirement you really need to fill your   life to the brim and keep busy with activities 
you love and that is a really great formula for   happiness and self-direction will help you 
to achieve that state as well as discipline   because if you think about it like discipline 
directly affects the state of your finances right   it affects whether you stick with your retirement 
planning whether you keep fit and active and you   get to maintain your health in retirement even 
whilst you're left up to your own devices even   to find your cover suits if you don't have any 
when you're starting or in your retirement so   discipline and self-direction will be like 
the building blocks for enjoying your life   in retirement the third essential thing you might 
want to work on and cultivate or happy retirement   is people skills right so studies and research 
have reflected very consistently that the main   determining factor for happiness and Longevity 
for most of us is actually relationships Human   Relationships friendships relationship with 
your spouse and with your family I guess if   you look at most of us you know we all have 
a little need of work on some social skills   in some aspect I mean some of us are a bit shy 
paper hats or graph or maybe socially anxious   working on our people skills really will help us 
to get along and live happily with our spouse and   family members and also importantly to make 
new friendships at whatever age we all know   that making new friends gets a lot more difficult 
as we get older I mean I haven't heard anyone say   otherwise for me personally making new friends 
as I get older is the biggest challenge there's   this huge feeling that nothing can replace 
friendships with people who have known you   all your life but it is also a challenge as I 
have chosen to exercise through Arbitrage in   our retirement and we've moved away from home 
so those friends aren't with us in our present   I find that it takes a lot of intention I have 
to consciously push myself to broaden my Social   Circles and make the effort to get to know people 
on a more intimate basis I am also very happy   to be able to say that it has paid off in that for 
the last two years in Bali I have actually made   two or three new friends that I'm happy to say are 
kindred spirits and not just social acquaintances   so that's very nice and it's a huge Comfort to our 
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MooMoo ad using my link in the description below   now back to the video the fourth essential 
thing that you can definitely work on and that   will benefit your retirement tremendously it's 
actually courage you're definitely gonna need lots   of courage in retirement and I guess this isn't 
a skill exactly it's kind of more of a quality   but in retirement you need a lot of courage 
to even plunge into retirement you need the   courage to you know take that leap of faith to 
stop putting it off due to fear of the unknown   feel or financial insecurities so then it's all 
about courage at that stage not let fear and   insecurity rule your life and your decisions it 
is also the courage to recognize that in life at   the start at the end in the middle the Domino's 
you need are never all nicely lined up you know   at some point you just got to jump into it and 
then learn to cross the obstacles as they come   so for retirement long term I guess the 
biggest issue most commonly is always money   but my perspective on this is that hey budgets 
can always be reduced money can always be earned   or recouped or whatever happens so I still 
think that you know it is actually beneficial   to Advocate an approach whereby you get to 
a point where you feel that you have most of   your Ducks lined up you've planned well you've 
prepped for it grab hold of your courage with   both hands and then take the plunge people tend 
to think of retirement as the end but it's not   it's the start of a new phase where you should be 
trying so many new things new Pursuits new ways   to live and for each of these new adventures 
you're gonna need courage to take action and   once you have taken the plunge you'll find the 
next fifth thing very very useful and that would   be a mentality of resilience especially in early 
retirement there are a lot more decades ahead of   you you know and therefore a lot more chances that 
they things can go wrong whether it be down to bad   financial planning or perhaps an unexpected Health 
catastrophe or even sometimes natural disasters   whatever comes I guess you will always need that 
strength of Will and the resilience so that you   can roll with the punches and then get back up 
you want to know that you have the mental strength   that even if things go pear-shaped you won't just 
give up and lose hope and certain Corner you've   got to Marshall what you've got inside you go out 
there find Solutions perhaps if necessary you've   got to go back to work but know that later on 
you can return to retirement and try again so the   sex essential thing that I believe will benefit 
everyone in retirement is to cultivate an attitude   of gratitude we all know life is a very long 
journey hopefully at least and so much of what   we Chase using most of our years actually doesn't 
really matter in the big picture once you have   taken a step back and then at that point is when 
you start realizing the earlier you cultivate and   attitude of gratitude and that appreciation for 
the simple little things that are probably around   you everywhere every day the happier you probably 
will be and it sounds silly but it's not really   automatic I mean we all live and grow up and 
work and go to school in a society that kind of   innovates us with messages that we need to reach 
for more have more ambition gives us you know that   High definitions of success in life that we 
have to try to jump to reach and nobody sings   the Praises of the pleasures of a simple cup of 
tea you know the importance of family time with   your loved ones or or just the pleasure of being 
able to take an evening walk on the beach with   your dog so I think that it's very important that 
somebody reminds you that you know you can not   overload what you already have what you're already 
surrounded by growing that muscle of appreciation   so that in each and every moment you are present 
in your own life you see all the little Joys that   you're surrounded with every day and if you 
live life like that I think that will help   you achieve contentment with just the small stuff 
around you and that's what majority of your life   in retirement may be about is just a small stuff 
every day but in my own retirement here in Bali it   is what makes me so grateful and so happy every 
day that I am surrounded by my loving husband   and very interesting and independent little dog 
that's very very cute you know that we have very   comfortable a bit simple house we have the ability 
to enjoy good food even if it's simple stuff   from the war rooms locally we have a garden and 
beautiful things are growing around us every day   the weather is great you know stuff is good yeah 
I think this is one of the most essential simple   things that's often overlooked simply because it's 
a matter of mentality but I believe this essential   quality or characteristic could make all the 
difference for you so these are the six essential   things that I believe are very very important for 
you to cultivate and prepare for in the leader to   actually taking the plunge into a return then I 
think that if you have these six strong skills and   qualities going for you you will be in a position 
much more well placed to make the best out of your   retirement however long that period may be let me 
know what you think of my suggestions whether you   agree or if you think they suck let me know why 
but in any event I really appreciate you tuning   in and sharing my thoughts for this week and 
wherever you are in the world I'm wishing you   a happy Saturday evening and let's speak again 
next week till then you take care and bye for now

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Think Retirement = 🚫 Work? You may NEVER retire. Do THIS instead.

That'' s this one kind of command.
that keeps turning up in action to my videos it'' s the whole oh you manage.
services ah you'' re still working you ' re not retired or oh you make YouTube videos.
you'' re still functioning no you ' re not retired it ' s not like the retirement cops you know I. mean clearly to these individuals available retirement strictly implies say goodbye to working no extra require to.
earn money and also for some remarkably it'' s also age bound evidently to be retired I obtained ta be 60.
plus [Music] I indicate to be honest I think this is just a ridiculous debate over semantics right because.
well you can call it whatever you like we'' re delighted living the method we live We'' re not gon na transform.
anything even if of YouTube remarks right yet I also feel obliged to direct out that for.
these people thinking retired life strictly means say goodbye to working normal generating income they''
re. actually really incorrect it ' s a view that ' s kind of simply separated from reality completely and.
the scariest thing is that if you stick to this idea you might never retire appearance I understand the.
origins of the concept that retirement amounts to regular job I grew up because era as well that era where.
you will certainly work 40 plus years in this one consistent work retire at 65 and after that Tada Grand exit with.
this gold wall surface gold watch and your pension plan or you understand Singaporean situation you understand cpaf and after that.
off to the golf links you go now historically if you look at the context this was formed in the.
supposed golden years of the post-world Battle II full work today these days quite.
evident life work whatever has considerably transformed since not the very least source of Automation and.
digitalization jobs are no longer the steady point it made use of to be rather currently it'' s highly unstable.
I indicate consider what happened during the pandemic and after that now that the pandemic is over it'' s the. tech discharges and increasingly terrific information with the advances in AI drops are vanishing.
completely the center class is vanishing they say the abundant are getting richer the bad are.
obtaining poorer so job these days already looks so various from what it used to be three decades ago.
Why on Earth would certainly anyone expect retirement to continue to be the same as before I indicate the truth.
is that it doesn'' t for one it ' s obtained'a great deal more costly we ' re living
a lot longer these. days Treatment has actually likewise obtained increasingly costly housing costs maintain Climbing so costly.
Increasing inflation insufficient wage development the amount of cash the professionals keep saying you need.
for a comfortable retired life keeps Increasing however let'' s just take a practical number for the minimum.
advised quantity of cost savings for retirement in the US obviously that would have to do with 555 000 United States.
bucks or 10 times the U.S median revenue however then another survey reveals that generally senior citizens have.
simply slightly over a hundred as well as seventy thousand dollars conserved for retirement some senior citizens.
apparently just have absolutely nothing zero and also even in Singapore among the most affluent nations in the.
globe over 60 percent of pre-retired singaporeans are stating they'' re not on track to retired life. either so after that what do you believe all these individuals throughout the world both pre-retirement as well as already.
retired are doing so this is what they'' re doing this is simply what stands out right up if you do.
a quick Google on the Net by the way according to Wikipedia everybody'' s default Guru.
on all points in deep space if you check out Wiki'' s web page on retired life in the United States as you age you.
have six way of life options and out of the six 4 entails some type of work full time or part-time.
the truth seems to be that lots of retired people are around side rushing or freelancing or establishing.
there'' s like semi-retirement you recognize going back to work part-time that'' s freelancing Consulting.
what some people call opportunistic working often they just do things like offering.
or adding anyhow they delight in however appears like it'' s a standard that several retired people are.
out there functioning or earning money or just getting this established routine in their retired life feeling.
deliberate engaged and pretty satisfied it'' s really a great deal around simply progressing past that phase in life.
where your job is so consolidated paying the cost of you and your family'' s presence that numerous.
individuals stick to doing lousy work they truly dislike simply to endure I think that insisting.
that retirement must be a Continuous vacation with no work or generating income whatsoever it'' s. really simply quite an ignorant idea that valued Eternal holiday vision is not also a sustainable.
thing actually I mean check out all the anecdotal proof from all the people out there you understand.
they'' re stating that that Infinite trip phase of retirement it really lasts nearly one.
two years on typical Max prior to one gets burnt out as well as dispirited and also that feeling of loss and also being.
shed correct in it'' s a whole cycle apparently you relax you get tired eventually you discover.
brand-new Pursuits and engagement money making or not and also then you obtain delighted again until the.
end to make sure that'' s the four stages of retired life so this person clarifies it in this video clip it makes.
total feeling you feel like you can examine that out however basically moral of the story at whatever age.
or phase of Life maintaining hectic having function and interaction a good routine feeling included.
feeling economically safeguard it'' s healthy as well as it makes individuals delighted on the various other hand if you.
remain to urge retirement you should imply no even more work ever before since that'' s just how you'think
you ' ll. enjoy up until your end despite the fact that the proof points otherwise after that you recognize that trashful.
amount of retired life savings is just ever before going to keep shifting continually higher and also to strike it.
you'' re probably mosting likely to wind up functioning that added a lot more years it'' s currently occurring official.
old age throughout the world keeps enhancing as well as say eventually happily you really handle to.
obtain there you retire you'' re sigh greatly kick back into your coastline chair which dream.
become a reality Continuous holiday situation and after that one 2 years later bam on time.
it'' s shed calamity as well as your sphere lonely shed probably asking yourself where everything went pear-shaped.
You pedal through some even more ears as well as allow lost the bottom mode and after that you'' ll locate yourself. perhaps aged 70 and yet lacked savings due to the fact that you didn'' t work right in between and after that you.
wind up being one of those people available Googling how to locate a job at 70.

Unfortunately since.
you actually require to that'' s got ta suck so instead here'' s my recommendation as opposed to clinging onto this.
out-of-date suggestion of retired life I think it'' s way more effective to spend your time finding out what'' s. possible currently for you and also your ability you might hang out thinking of how you can perhaps take.
control and also redefine job as well as retirement in your life on your own due to the fact that if you don'' t work and also. retired life is being redefined for you by society as well as federal government anyhow whether you like it or not.
and after that you'' re simply going to be adhering to along you can consider how you can perhaps decouple.
the job you do from the expense of your existence and after that perhaps even better you can consider.
whether you can locate some means to decouple creating those existence calls from the direct.
input of your time and I believe this is all actually crucial if you don'' t intend to be stuck on the.
grind up until you'' re concerning like I wear ' t know 120 years of ages because it'' s coming for all of us.
that time in your life where you can'' t make the exact same money at your work as you can when you.
were more youthful or had also obtain a suitable paying task whatever that might be when you need one due to the fact that.
of like ageism and also all those things you understand most Financial suggestions out there they say that.
usually for any of us to retire conveniently we need around 75 to 80 percent of our pre-retirement.
revenue to proceed our current requirement of living so below'' s the circumstance back when I was still.
in the workforce myself running that corporate hamster wheel so I had a task I was so done hectic.
simply functioning so I can hang on to that work it was my only source of money so my entire presence.
was you understand reliant on that income and as soon as hell was not believing to myself about exactly how I.
can redefine help myself or if someday if I quit working just how I could still generate 80 of.
that income monthly so my presence wouldn'' t have to considerably change I suggest sure you can do.
like what we did now appropriate you recognize downgrade your way of life possibly relocate overseas to a less expensive location.
end up being much less high upkeep in retired life so you wear'' t need 80 of your pre-retirement income.
Maybe you'' ll still need what 30 40 percent and also if right now your only revenue generation.
is through that work that salary you obtained no Investments nothing else abilities no side hustles.
no absolutely nothing when that work retires you at that compulsory age or because of a few other scenarios.
God forbid after that what are you going to do I believe that'' s the sincere reality for many working.
grownups around still especially a lot more so if you actually got wed and started bulging.
children you understand time just evaporates really swiftly at this stage of life already so I believe most of us.
require this reminder you understand to seek out from our service you recognize to check out the bigger photo.
as well as attempt to regulate where we'' re all headed towards if you'' re still enjoying this video at this moment.
then I wish this serves as that tip for you anyway if you'' re looking at your ability collections.
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point I'' m certain you ' ve obtained a whole lot to state in feedback whether you assume what I'' ve simply said is all.
bollocks or if you two are looking for a better way of life design after that this typical retired life.
design which I'' ve constantly discovered so gloomy well you can leave me remarks listed below and also we.
can discuss I wish you enjoyed this video clip as common leave a like so with any luck even more individuals will certainly.
see this and subscribe if you intend to maintain up with even more of this things thanks all again.
and also allow'' s chat once more following Saturday Cheerios.

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How we Retired at 40..💰7 tips to succeed for Early Retirement💰

Hey guys retired at 40 I’m going on a little road trip today just me and Murph and last week I reached a milestone on my channel and I hit a million views total and 10,000 subscribers in the same week since I’ve been getting requests for quite a long time about how I retired at 40 and I’m on a long road trip right now I figured what better time to share the story so without further ado here’s the retired at 40 story so before I get started I want to say that this is not in any way a brag story in fact I’m definitely not a showy type guy I enjoy very simple things in life and money to me is more of just a vehicle to be able to retire young and have my family live a comfortable and an easy life and to be able to enjoy lots of life experiences and be comfortable in life before I’m old and gray so really the journey began in about 2002 graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in marketing and business and by that point I have met my wife Kelly she had already graduated from school and she was kind of waiting for me and we wanted to move west out of the Midwest to move west see some new territory and get closer to the outdoors so I grabbed my degree ran out the door packed up my 1987 Ranger fully equipped with eight foot hay racks full of all of my personal belongings and we drove to Littleton Colorado and at this point in my life I had $200 in my pocket and Kelly had about the same so being completely naive and basically completely broke but with a degree I was on the search for the best suit and tie job that I could possibly find so I bounced around for a couple months just working some kind of halfway jobs and I quickly realized that I did not want to wear a suit and tie and I wanted nothing to do with the man and working a nine-to-five job well Kelly had found a job in a real estate office working the front desk and she had become friends with a couple of the big-time Realtors there one of which you caught wind that I had some handyman type skills but he made me a deal that if he paid cash for a house and I fixed it up that he would split the profit with us 50/50 and at this point in my life all I saw was dollar signs if I was completely blown away that there was someone that could pay cash for a house this is coming from a guy who had less than $200 in his pocket at this point it was pretty much scraping by I tried to hold back my excitement to him but naturally I said yes please let’s do that I was working the graveyard shift at Target stocking shelves I’d worked for 10 hours I would go home grab a little bit of breakfast and I’d head over to the property and work on it for another five or six hours I try and catch a few hours of sleep and then I would rinse and repeat it was at this point in my life that I learned a few different things one you really have to dig deep to reach your goals in life because I was not getting paid by the hour and at this point I didn’t know how much money I was gonna make I didn’t know if I would make $500 when this was all done or if I was going to make $5,000 when this is all done so I learned that a lot of things that can benefit you financially you have to put in the work upfront without knowing what your final outcome is going to be after about three months which seemed like an eternity of working seven days a week for sometimes 15 sometimes 20 hours a day on this house the house was ready to go on the market and it was all finished it looked great and then before you knew it it’s sold and then the house closed and at this point I still didn’t know what we were gonna make off it but for me it didn’t matter the hard part was done I didn’t have any of my own money into it I just had my time basically so the guy we were doing the investment with hands me an envelope and I opened it up and at $8,000 being twenty-two years old and having $8,000 I might as well have hit the lottery and that brings me to my second valuable lesson that I learned and that is being responsible with money so when you have $8,000 and you’re 22 years old a lot of people would go buy a new car they’d go buy some flashy things some pretty things but to me I had realized that if I can make $8,000 once I can make $8,000 again and again and again and again so I can either go p*&% the $8,000 away that I had worked my a#* off for or I can take that $8,000 and do exactly what he did but do it myself and potentially make twice or three times as much money so my wife being in a real estate office we became acquainted with quite a few smart people financially smart people we learned a lot about real estate very quickly because we were willing to learn which is my next valuable life lesson is that you never stop learning so we took our $8,000 we put a small down payment on a condo in Littleton because we realized that giving someone else our money was you might as well be throwing it away we wanted to be working towards something and it own something on our own so we took our other four or five thousand dollars and we started our search for a real estate investment that we could do all of our all on her own and get a hundred percent of the profits so after some searching we did find a place we found a small town home it was not in as nice of area as we were living it was smaller it needed lots of work but that takes us to our next light life lesson that we learned and that is to sacrifice for a greater payoff in the future so we had only lived in our condo for a very short time but we realized that if we moved into the real estate investment that we could rent out the place that we are living at and move into the place that we were fixing up that we’d have to be paying a mortgage on anyway we had our first real estate investment and we had our first rental so being 22 years old and owning two properties and carrying two mortgages and at this point I’m still working at Target was a pretty scary proposition in life but all I could see was that $8,000 check they had started to change our lives I also want to point out and kind of give a shout-out to my parents and to my wife’s parents because neither one of our parents ever handed us anything in life they always made us work for what we achieved in fact when we move we tried to convince my parents to co-sign on our mortgage for the condo that we bought and they said no way at the time I was very very mad at them and I thought I would never forgive them in hindsight it was one of the best things they’ve ever done for me because it just made me have that fire in my belly and really just want to work to get what I wanted so back to having two mortgages that was a completely scary thing in my life I was making something like 10 dollars an hour at Target I think Kelly was making $13 an hour at the real estate office she was working at we could barely afford the condo we had but now he had two.

God bless the banks lending money to anyone at that point on the very plus side of that we learned that someone else can pay our mortgage and we’re basically getting that money for free and then later we figured out that there are many many many tax benefits and huge benefits of owning a rental property so we quickly learned that trying to pay for materials and the things needed to fix up an investment property on just barely over minimum wage is not easy to do the thing that happened next couldn’t have come at a more perfect time so all of a sudden I had money to spend to fix up this house and it would just get me to that next big paycheck that much quicker so that’s what we did we fixed up the house we doubled our money we rolled it into the next one so we kept bouncing from house to house quite a few times and that sacrifice of from going from a nice house to live in to going to a crappy house to live in to fix up to making it nice again to going to another crappy house to fix up it became pretty stressful but we always had our eyes on the prize “are you still with me Murph?” after doing this two or three times I remember getting a check for the last one and the check was forty one thousand dollars so at that point it didn’t make sense to work at Target anymore so I just started doing it full-time but we never took the big proceeds from the real estate and put it into our actual living we always rolled it into the next property and that kind of gave us the baseline of even how we live today we always live well below our means we take the money that we make and we put it into things that will make us an income not into something that will lose us money but you do have to treat yourself every once in a while otherwise there’s no reason to make the money in the first place Kelly saw many of the high producing Realtors making large amounts of money so she decided to get a real estate license and she created her own real estate business so now we really felt like we had the world by the balls because we were getting paid a commission to buy the property and then we were saving half of the Commission when we sold the property and I was fixing him up so we just get rolling our profits in rolling our profits in rolling our profits in until family we were able to buy a house and now that we could get a house we were playing with the big boys the profits were much larger but so was the risk and we really didn’t want to lose all the way it worked for for the last couple of years so we did a few houses and we made some great money but instead of selling them and pulling out our profits we kept them as rentals and it was at this point that we really started building up our rental inventory at this point it was about 2006 or 2007 and real estate was starting to slow down a little bit but we have purchased a large house I’m a courage that was really a big risk for us it was a large house to fix up it was our biggest project for sure it took us the most money to fix it up and we had the most money into it so we lived in this house for about 8 months while we were fixing it up and we kind of decided after doing about 12 properties that the moving all the time was starting to get kind of old and we were kind of getting older ourselves and we decided that we wanted to have kids and kind of settle down a little bit Murph are you with me? sometimes I feel like I’m just talking to myself so after the eight months was up we finished the house we sold it and shortly after the real estate market completely crashed the bubble had burst and Colorado was one of the hardest hit States we got out of the house just in the nick of time and not only did the real-estate market bubble burst we found out that we couldn’t have kids and it seemed like a real low point in our lives but around 2007 when all this happened we realized our next lesson with every negative there is a big positive that can be gained from it and you can just use it as fuel for your fire so the recession was tough we thought our great life had come to an end we thought we were gonna have to get regular jobs you know people were losing their jobs left and right people were losing their houses Colorado was hit very very hard one of the worst states during the recession and we learned that what goes up must come down and in this case it came down hard in many cases not just real estate when things are bad that’s the time to invest and if you’re smart with your money and you’ve been saving while everyone else spending that’s the time to benefit though from about 2008 to 2012 we were buying rentals so we were able to adapt I started doing contracting because that’s pretty much what I was doing before but now I had to be doing work for someone else and Kelly’s always been a mover and a shaker and even a bad real estate market she was able to keep her business moving we were buying things for pennies on a dollar and even though we were not making great money and in some cases losing a little bit of money on rentals we were able to stick it out and after lots of lots of years of lots of lots of heartache and lots of lots of doctors we were able to have two boys so about 2014/2015 real estate started creeping back up again prices kept going through the roof and just when he thought it was the peak they just kept going up stuff was flying off the shelves you could list a house and it would have multiple offers within 24 hours so we had about age 35 we were completely debt-free we had several rentals that we were cash flowing we didn’t owe any money on the rentals so all that money was just rolling into a bank account when you have no bills and you have an income coming in your net worth starts to grow very quickly so we rode out the storm Kelly’s business was doing great my contracting business was doing great we have liquidated a lot of our real estate in Colorado we had capital to play with we had two beautiful young boys and then I fell to my knees crying like a little baby I had herniated a disc in my back and I was on a walker for about a month contracting for me was out of the question I didn’t even want to think about picking something up so I took some time off and I raised our kids which at first I thought would just be for a few months and then a year passed and then another year passed and I decided that I kind of liked it we had rental income coming in Kelley’s business was doing better than it had ever been in fact she had started her own she had several people working for her and just as a little side income I got to do what I love to do which is antiques I was just buying and selling antiques so we were trying to be very strategic at this point because we owned a fair amount of property in Colorado but we knew that our ultimate goal was to retire at 40 and at the rate things were going up we didn’t want to sell too early because we didn’t want to miss out on that upside but we didn’t want to sell too late because we didn’t want to risk the chance of taking a step back so as some regret we sold the majority of our properties in around 2017 but this was a game-changer because we were able to make cash for every rental that we purchased so we loaded up on rentals in Iowa we actually purchased our property that we’re going to move into which is actually where I’m headed now and that kind of brings us up to speed to current date I take care of our 10 rentals which keep which keeps me pretty busy just in itself i buy and sell antiques i get to see my kids all the time we have a good rental income coming in now we do youtube oh yeah we also do a couple fix and flips every year Kelly has her real estate team with about 10 employees and in June of 2020 we’re going to retire at 40 so all in all life is great I have a wonderful family I have enough assets and passive income to live a comfortable life

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