What's in a name? Coast-FI, FIRE glide path, or FIRE fattening?

[Koolau]

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
-- William Shakespeare

Doesn't matter what you call it. If I can make it through the rest of my life without working for the man, I call it good.

The only person I work for is myself.

Heh, heh, I only w*rk for the woman, aka DW.

 

[2029FIREaway]

Well, since you asked, I would say you are neither completely FI nor completely RE'd. Your investable net worth is $750k, although you are getting substantial income from renting out parts of your $1.5MM home. So I suppose there are some who would say you can/should count that as part of your investable NW.

Once you hit your full FIRE target number and you no longer do part-time consulting or "landlording", then I'd say you'll be fully FIREd. What is your target number, if you don't mind my asking? If it's $10MM, and you hit it, then you'll probably be solidly in FatFIRE territory (unless you live in the Bay Area or Manhattan, etc.). If it's $5MM, on the other hand, you'll most likely be in the ChubbyFIRE club. Of course, these are all just labels, and as such, there's a lot of disagreement on what exactly differentiates "chubby" from "fat". And then there's LeanFIRE, BaristaFIRE, and just plain ol' middle-of-the-road FIRE.

FWIW, here's some verbiage from a post in the ChubbyFIRE sub-forum on Reddit that attempts to define some of the more widely-known types of FIRE:

I may be Chubby but unlikely ever be Fat.
Perhaps there is something good that will come out of that