I met Brent Sutherland, the author of today’s guest post, at a financial conference called FinCon. I was immediately impressed with him because he was a certified financial planner who ALSO spoke fluently about real estate investing! Yes, that’s a rare combination. And as a result, I asked him to write a guest post to [Continue Reading]
How a 26-Year-Old Achieved Financial Independence in 3 Years With House Hacking
I’m excited to share this post with you about a 26-year-old guy named Craig Curelop who used house hacking + frugality to QUICKLY reach financial independence in less than 3 years. Craig also recently published a new book through Bigger Pockets called The House Hacking Strategy: How to Use Your Home to Achieve Financial Freedom. [Continue Reading]
The Dirtbag* Millionaire Path to Financial Independence
*Update: Since “dirtbag” is in the title of this article, I wanted to avoid confusion by defining what I mean by it. Urbandictionary.com explains it as “A person who is committed to a given (usually extreme) lifestyle to the point of abandoning employment and other societal norms in order to pursue said lifestyle.” And in [Continue Reading]
What Suze Orman Got Wrong About the FIRE Movement
Recently my friend Paula Pant interviewed the matriarch of money, Suze Orman on her podcast Afford Anything. Less than 2 minutes into the interview, the conversation got very interesting: “Have you heard of the FIRE movement?,” Paula asked. “Yes, of course I have,” Suze said. “And I hate it.” “Really?” “I hate it, I hate [Continue Reading]
How a 41-Year-Old Used Multiple Streams of Income to Achieve Financial Independence
In my Investor Profile Series, I use a question & answer format to share the stories of actual real estate investors at different stages of their investing careers. Today’s investor profile is about Joseph Hogue. Joseph has worked in commercial real estate, owned residential rentaI properties, become an equity analyst on Wall Street, and now blogs at [Continue Reading]
My Rental Retirement Strategy (or How to Not Run Out of Money)
This article was inspired by a series of posts by fellow early retirement bloggers about how to live off your wealth during retirement (thanks, PoF and Fritz for getting it started). They called this a retirement drawdown or withdrawal strategy, which, by the way, could be very different than your strategy to build wealth. I [Continue Reading]
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