knucklehead 61
Recycles dryer sheets
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- Nov 3, 2008
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with the massive uptick in real estate, i now have well over 4,000,000 in equity in my rental properties. makes my 1.3m vanguard ira seem insignificant.
with the massive uptick in real estate, i now have well over 4,000,000 in equity in my rental properties. makes my 1.3m vanguard ira seem insignificant.
I put this up on Class of 2017, but it's a milestone, so here it is again. Effectively today is my day, if officially a little later. I now start my accrued vacation days, and on 4/12 I will stop in to the office to turn in my laptop, CC, etc. However, I am w**rking no more, and will put up "I'm retired" messages on the corp phone and e-mail today. It has been 35.75 years to the day. I briefly felt a bit rudderless yesterday morning, but I think I am over it.
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I put this up on Class of 2017, but it's a milestone, so here it is again. Effectively today is my day, if officially a little later. I now start my accrued vacation days, and on 4/12 I will stop in to the office to turn in my laptop, CC, etc. However, I am w**rking no more, and will put up "I'm retired" messages on the corp phone and e-mail today. It has been 35.75 years to the day. I briefly felt a bit rudderless yesterday morning, but I think I am over it.
Later on I was thunderstruck by a song on the radio that will have to be my theme song for a while. As the Eagles so magnificently put it -
Well, I heard some people talkin' just the other day
And they said you were gonna put me on a shelf
But let me tell you I got some news for you
And you'll soon find out it's true
And then you'll have to eat your lunch all by yourself
'Cause I'm Already Gone
And I'm feelin' strong
I will sing this vict'ry song, woo, hoo, hoo, woo, hoo, hoo
Well I know it wasn't you who held me down
Heaven knows it wasn't you who set me free
So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key
But me, I'm Already Gone
And I'm feelin' strong
I will sing this vict'ry song
'Cause I'm Already Gone
Yes, I'm Already Gone
Later on I was thunderstruck by a song on the radio that will have to be my theme song for a while. As the Eagles so magnificently put it -
Well, I heard some people talkin' just the other day
And they said you were gonna put me on a shelf
But let me tell you I got some news for you
And you'll soon find out it's true
And then you'll have to eat your lunch all by yourself
'Cause I'm Already Gone
And I'm feelin' strong
I will sing this vict'ry song, woo, hoo, hoo, woo, hoo, hoo
Well I know it wasn't you who held me down
Heaven knows it wasn't you who set me free
So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key
But me, I'm Already Gone
And I'm feelin' strong
I will sing this vict'ry song
'Cause I'm Already Gone
Yes, I'm Already Gone
with the massive uptick in real estate, i now have well over 4,000,000 in equity in my rental properties. makes my 1.3m vanguard ira seem insignificant.
I put this up on Class of 2017, but it's a milestone, so here it is again. Effectively today is my day, if officially a little later. I now start my accrued vacation days, and on 4/12 I will stop in to the office to turn in my laptop, CC, etc. However, I am w**rking no more, and will put up "I'm retired" messages on the corp phone and e-mail today. It has been 35.75 years to the day. I briefly felt a bit rudderless yesterday morning, but I think I am over it.
Later on I was thunderstruck by a song on the radio that will have to be my theme song for a while. As the Eagles so magnificently put it -
Well, I heard some people talkin' just the other day
And they said you were gonna put me on a shelf
But let me tell you I got some news for you
And you'll soon find out it's true
And then you'll have to eat your lunch all by yourself
'Cause I'm Already Gone
And I'm feelin' strong
I will sing this vict'ry song, woo, hoo, hoo, woo, hoo, hoo
Well I know it wasn't you who held me down
Heaven knows it wasn't you who set me free
So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key
But me, I'm Already Gone
And I'm feelin' strong
I will sing this vict'ry song
'Cause I'm Already Gone
Yes, I'm Already Gone
Last month, I just passed the 100,000$ mark. Nothing feels better than having a cushion and being debt-free! Looking to many more milestones in the future. (I am 25)
I'm pleased to announce that at age 61 1/2 I am now a millionaire based on investment savings and cash. The $1M may not last that long due to market fluctuation and because I'm retiring in 5 months and will start withdrawing funds but this was my goal early in my career and I finally made it. (I have a pension too so am comfortable with just $1M.)
my net worth has increased just over 1 million through real estate since i retired in 2009 but i did inherit close to 200K and just bought another rental with it in february. in 2009 i took the plunge and went all in with 300K, it bought me 5 single family homes for around 75K each(financing 2 of them), now the homes are in the low $200's.
Well 4 months after FIRE'ing and 3 months after they were SUPPOSED to issue me a pension lump sum check, I finally got... a check with the biggest dollar amount of any check I have seen with my name on it...
wow- that's awesome. Tell us what you did right and what you wish you'd done differently. Did your retirement calculations hold up? Did you miscalculate anything? What's the best thing (fun thing) you've done that you couldn't have done working?
Last month, I just passed the 100,000$ mark. Nothing feels better than having a cushion and being debt-free! Looking to many more milestones in the future. (I am 25)