My first attempt to start a new thread was thwarted and I ended up posting a reply to the first Hi, I am... on the page. Sorry for the duplicate post.
Hi everyone! I'm Michael, and I'm.......an aspiring - perhaps un-proclaimed - FIRE'er! (Sounds like the intro into a 12 step program!) Can this affliction be cured? I doubt it.
I've been on the internet/www almost since it went "public" and this is the first time that I have posted anything to a forum. (Read: compliments to you folks for this very interesting forum.) I found FIRECalc about 3 years ago, and have been lurking on the forum for about 3 months. I don't claim to be savvy on forum etiquette, and therefore beg your indulgence and welcome corrective suggestions.
I am 49 and dapple in real estate. (It has been said that I pray at the alter of real estate.) I know very little about stocks and bonds. DW is 45 and works for the only major airline that hasn't gone into Chapter 11. DW plans to work until age 50 at which point she will become "eligible" for pension (including medical) and flight benifits which in theory would kick in at age 55. DW is planning to live to 90.
DW manages approx. 450K in mutual funds - mostly Vanguard - spread out using some sort of Charles Schwab "theory of diversification". I manage real estate with a current value of about 2.5M with about 1.1M equity. ( For info's sake: real estate is split amongst 3 properties, all duplexes, one of which is primary residence which we intend to "keep forever") We keep about 100K in cash for rainy days. We will have approximately 500K kick in from a trust in +/- 10 years.
I am wondering: how do others account for real estate in a FIRECalc senario? I have been plugging in the estimated (read: WAG) equity after cost of sale and taxes into the "Sell Your Yacht" field. If I run the numbers through FIRECalc starting today, and excluding the primary residence, I come up with a SWR of 7.5%. Seems simple enough so I'm sure I must be missing something.
Happy to fill-in any critical missing data. Thanks in advance for any time spent on this.
Hi everyone! I'm Michael, and I'm.......an aspiring - perhaps un-proclaimed - FIRE'er! (Sounds like the intro into a 12 step program!) Can this affliction be cured? I doubt it.
I've been on the internet/www almost since it went "public" and this is the first time that I have posted anything to a forum. (Read: compliments to you folks for this very interesting forum.) I found FIRECalc about 3 years ago, and have been lurking on the forum for about 3 months. I don't claim to be savvy on forum etiquette, and therefore beg your indulgence and welcome corrective suggestions.
I am 49 and dapple in real estate. (It has been said that I pray at the alter of real estate.) I know very little about stocks and bonds. DW is 45 and works for the only major airline that hasn't gone into Chapter 11. DW plans to work until age 50 at which point she will become "eligible" for pension (including medical) and flight benifits which in theory would kick in at age 55. DW is planning to live to 90.
DW manages approx. 450K in mutual funds - mostly Vanguard - spread out using some sort of Charles Schwab "theory of diversification". I manage real estate with a current value of about 2.5M with about 1.1M equity. ( For info's sake: real estate is split amongst 3 properties, all duplexes, one of which is primary residence which we intend to "keep forever") We keep about 100K in cash for rainy days. We will have approximately 500K kick in from a trust in +/- 10 years.
I am wondering: how do others account for real estate in a FIRECalc senario? I have been plugging in the estimated (read: WAG) equity after cost of sale and taxes into the "Sell Your Yacht" field. If I run the numbers through FIRECalc starting today, and excluding the primary residence, I come up with a SWR of 7.5%. Seems simple enough so I'm sure I must be missing something.
Happy to fill-in any critical missing data. Thanks in advance for any time spent on this.