Recent content by hilltide

Congrats on FI! What a great accomplishment

I love reading peoples updates so I figured I would post one for me. Thank you in advance for your feedback and encouragement. I am almost 47 Years Old and Wife is 40. I have a 2 year old daughter. I closed my own company down 10 years ago to transition to the family business. It went so well...

Killing it lucky! Nice work. Should be a comfortable retirement. On top of that, you still enjoy your job. Thanks for joining the thread. Look forward to the updates.

Congratulations! Yeah. It was for us too at 42 years old. We would have made more investing but we always wanted to be debt free as well. . As many have mentioned the feeling gets better. There is really no financial stress now. Money will stack up very quickly for you now. Enjoy!

Welcome Life by Fire. You are killing it! Hope the rental project is going well.

Hey Everyone. Hope you are doing well. This market is screaming and has been fun to watch. Like everyone cautiously optimistic but for now enjoying the ride. Thought I would give an update on my end. I did purchase a rental property a year ago and of course my 10k renovations ended up being...

Congratulations on your success. You have won the game. If two years will get you to the comfort zone, 2 years it is. It will take some time to implement your exit strategy anyways. I am married to an introvert. She is now a stay at home mom. I have found that more time and less stress has...

Nice work and congratulations! What an accomplishment

The value of a good private school really shines during a pandemic though. I agree with this. Luckily, our local privates are not too crazy.

A lot of great points. Thank you everyone. Our private schools here are about $7500 a year. My wife is a Stay at home mom and hope to continue that until baby is older. I have 5 to 10 years before I retire so plenty of time to make it all happen. Hope to take care of her hobbies out of the...

Good idea. Curious to see what she sees us paying for. Definitely the wedding as her Dad gave us a very generous gift. Now that I know how frugal he is, I am amazed it happened. Great guy for many reasons.

Great points everyone. Yes, need to figure out all the rocks, including wedding. NO!!! I told her it was ok to be a nun if she wants.. lol. Mentally,the 529 allows me to not include in our retirement assets. May rethink this though. Have 10k in there as a starting point. It can be used for a...

I joined the old man dad club at 44 and now have a beautiful one year old daughter at 45. My fire goal is 55. Having a kid this late in the game is going to require extra consideration. At FIRE, hoping to have between 3mil & 4 mill with no bills or mortgage and a few free and clear rentals I...