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How to Start to Create Passive Income - Part I
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You Can Afford Anything . Just Not Everything. What's It Gonna Be? 8220;I Want to Create Passive Income, But I Don’t Know Where to Start” — Part I. May 11, 2015. You hop on a flight to Brazil or Costa Rica or Thailand. You spend a month reveling in the sand and surf. You taste new foods. You discover new music. You spot wildlife you’ve never imagined. You return to the U.S., check your bank account, and notice your balance has. Money than you had when you started. Sound like a fantasy? These statements r...
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The First $100k is the Hardest! | Fervent Finance
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The First $100k is the Hardest! Jason from Dividend Mantra recently asked “ Is The First $100k The Hardest? 8221; I can officially answer that question with a resounding “YES! 8221; as I just crossed that barrier last week. Woo hoo! Man was I ecstatic! And that was without any windfalls, just hard work and dedication. To get to where I am, the first thing I did was take a look at my retirement savings. I didn’t have an IRA and I wasn’t maxing out my 401k. Fall of 2014 rolled around which is open enrollme...
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The Battle of the Cabinets – Fi Big Sky
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The Battle of the Cabinets. July 29, 2015 /. Posted in Kitchen Series. Ime for another update on the kitchen remodel:. Quickly after “Demolition Phase” concluded, the FI household moved into “Project Assembly.” Cabinet assembly, more precisely. Unlike the incredibly crafty Mrs. POP and her ability to. I know. What CAN’T those POP’s do? We decided to take the safer route of ordering Ready-to-Assemble cabinets instead. What Is Going On? Thoughts were racing through. My head about what I wanted to. The1 1/4...
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Financial Independence After Tragedy
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Financial Independence After Tragedy. By The Mad Fientist. Bull; 49 Comments. Today, I’m excited to put a Mad Fientist reader Under the Microscope. For the first time! A reader named Clay was brave enough to share his story so please take some time to read about his journey and share any advice you may have in the comments. Was a Network Engineer for years, now I’m a Section Supervisor for a networking group. Current after-tax savings rate. How did you get on the path to FI? In times of crisis I need to ...
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Millionaire Educator - Financial Independence on Teachers' Salaries
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Millionaire Educator – Financial Independence on Teachers’ Salaries. By The Mad Fientist. Bull; 40 Comments. Ed Mills from MillionaireEducator.com. Joined me for an episode of the Financial Independence Podcast. To talk about how he and his wife saved nearly a million dollars in just 16 years…on teachers’ salaries! We get into some really interesting tax-avoidance and geographic-arbitrage strategies so if you want to learn ways to drastically increase your income and savings rate, this episode is for you!
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2015 Mid-Year Goals Review | Fervent Finance
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2015 Mid-Year Goals Review. Back in April I set my Millionaire To-Do List. Max out pre-tax 401k. 8211; Contributions through June 30th are $10,200 ($8,800 of my own contributions $1,400 of employer match). Employer contributions don’t count to the $18,000 2015 IRS limit, so I have about $9,200 left to go. With my set contribution percentage I should get there sometime in November. PASS. Max out Roth IRA. Max out my HSA. Pay off my student loans. But on purpose 🙂. Never finance a car again. 8211; Well I&...
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Asset Allocation – Part One | Fervent Finance
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Asset Allocation – Part One. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about asset allocation. I know… I’m a wild and crazy guy. This financial independence community agrees on many things including cutting expenses, increasing income, reduction of taxes, and usually on some type of method for accessing capital (i.e. safe withdrawal rate). One thing I’ve noticed is the disparity in the community among the proper asset allocation. One of the crowd favorites Mr. Money Mustache. Do I buy rental real estate? People li...
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What Happens When A P2P Borrower Stops Paying? | Financial Samurai
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Slicing Through Money's Mysteries. How To Start A Blog. What Happens When A P2P Borrower Stops Paying? Posted by Financial Samurai. I’ve been an investor with Prosper. A peer-to-peer (P2P) lending company since 2012. I usually check my account once a quarter to view my performance and to re-invest cash that has come in from borrower payments. Per my latest passive income update, the annualized return of all of the notes in my portfolio is 7.41%. Better than a swift kick in the nuts! What surprised me eve...
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The Gear Post: What We Packed For A Seven Week Trip With Kids | Root of Good
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Retired in 2013 at age 33. Life is Good. I Retired at 33! All Posts Since The Beginning. The Gear Post: What We Packed For A Seven Week Trip With Kids. July 27, 2015. For those following our crazy seven week adventure in Mexico. You might be wondering what we packed for our trip. Here’s the answer! Our light packing made us look a little silly at times. We sometimes get the question “where is your luggage? 8221; because we’re only carrying bookbags for a two month trip. And the Osprey Farpoint 40. From t...
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July 2015 Financial Update | Root of Good
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Retired in 2013 at age 33. Life is Good. I Retired at 33! All Posts Since The Beginning. July 2015 Financial Update. August 3, 2015. You were great. We just returned home from our seven week vacation in Mexico. Where we ate tons of crazy delicious food. And had lots of fun. We thought about whether we could retire abroad. And patted ourselves on the back for packing very light for our trip. Blog income, shown as “other income” in the chart, was much higher than normal at $5,928 for the month&...Freelance...
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