How much to save if you want to retire early
How much do you need to save to retire young? It depends on how quickly you want to retire and your target budget in retirement. But regardless of your income or target retirement […]
Greg & his family retired young. Here’s how they did it
“I wanted to get money out of the way so I could spend my time with kids and a wife (I didn’t yet have.)” Greg Wilson retired recently at 42. But he started planning for financial […]
9 ways to invest $1K or less in real estate
At the risk of stating the obvious, real estate costs a lot. That makes it expensive to invest in and difficult to diversify among real estate investments. The median home price in the U.S. is […]
The secret playbook for making money in real estate
One of the largest sectors in both the U.S. and world economies, real estate offers countless ways to make money. You can invest in it, of course, whether directly or indirectly. A study over 145 years in […]
10 ways to live for free (even in a single-family home)
I live for free. Before that, I only paid around 30% of my mortgage payment. How? By finding ways to have other people pay my housing costs. It’s called house hacking, and there are many […]
Life-changing real estate investing lessons
At first I was afraid. I was petrified. That was me at 23, when it came to real estate investing. I was interested in it, and saw everyone around me achieving success with it. But […]
11 ways money actually can buy happiness
People love to say “money can’t buy happiness.” But is that actually true? Or is it simply a narrative repeated so often we’ve come to believe it? Some go further and misquote the Bible, […]
Investing myths you shouldn’t fall for
Yet they persist, largely because too many people consider money a “taboo” subject and avoid talking about it. Many of us also never question these assumptions, so we don’t bother running a quick web search […]