Interesting forum...good information.
Planning to retire from my STRESS day job with a good basic defined benifit retirement plan, I'll be 62. Still trying to figure out , should I take SS now or later? I have a bunch of rental properties that has and still is bringing good income, I own them free and clear, but I'd like to sell them all and pay off my house and invest the rest. I'l be pretty busy when I retire, I have a 7 acre Christmas Tree hobby farm that I started the planting this year (it will take 4-5 years to start getting income, but it did lower my taxes because I'm agriculture NOW). I hope the Christmas Tree farm helps me sell the BIG house later so I can down size and spend half my time in Tennessee and relax at my cabin "Lake Mist", .
I also teach Scuba diving in the summer, I've got 4 students ready to go. On the other side I have started a Water and Wastewater operations business and this year I have expanded into putting Septic Waste Receiving Station in at Florida cities that are looking or need additional income and want to do the right thing for the environment. I did this 20 years ago in the Florida Keys and I just getting this started again, I recently put a new one here in Central Florida. I have a couple more cities that have requested info, so I'm working on their contracts now.
So, you see I have plenty to do when I retire. It will be nice to ONLY work 7 days a week I think?
Planning to retire from my STRESS day job with a good basic defined benifit retirement plan, I'll be 62. Still trying to figure out , should I take SS now or later? I have a bunch of rental properties that has and still is bringing good income, I own them free and clear, but I'd like to sell them all and pay off my house and invest the rest. I'l be pretty busy when I retire, I have a 7 acre Christmas Tree hobby farm that I started the planting this year (it will take 4-5 years to start getting income, but it did lower my taxes because I'm agriculture NOW). I hope the Christmas Tree farm helps me sell the BIG house later so I can down size and spend half my time in Tennessee and relax at my cabin "Lake Mist", .
I also teach Scuba diving in the summer, I've got 4 students ready to go. On the other side I have started a Water and Wastewater operations business and this year I have expanded into putting Septic Waste Receiving Station in at Florida cities that are looking or need additional income and want to do the right thing for the environment. I did this 20 years ago in the Florida Keys and I just getting this started again, I recently put a new one here in Central Florida. I have a couple more cities that have requested info, so I'm working on their contracts now.
So, you see I have plenty to do when I retire. It will be nice to ONLY work 7 days a week I think?
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