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Learn From Your Mistakes…Before You Make Them
“Real estate is a tangible asset with inherent value unlike many other investment vehicles such as stocks, which many consider as gambling,” says Adam Kaufman, co-founder and managing director of ArborCrowd. There is much value to this statement, but this doesn’t mean that making money in real estate is a lay-up. You must still be educated on the key factors for success – as well as failure.
Read about 8 Costly Missteps With Real Estate Investing.
Daydream Fuel
In 2012, Sam Dogen decided to quit his job and retire at 34. At the time, he was married and had amassed a net worth of about $3 million that generated roughly $80,000 in investment income per year. Rather than continue working for the same firm he was at for 11 years, Dogen decided to make a drastic change in his life and become a “retiree.”
Hopefully your great investments allow you to retire early, but yours will likely not be as extreme as Dogen’s. Still, his observations of his life post-retirement could still serve as inspiration for how your life could look when you are finally able to call it quits to the 9-to-5 life.
Read about it here: I retired at 34 with $3 million—here are 7 benefits of early retirement I didn’t expect