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Selling rental properties and moving into Fixed income for early retirement
I'll be 55 this and our last one graduates high school and will go off to college this year. My wife and I a debt free and own 15 rental properties worth around 1.5 million (net after sale taxes). We also have healthy IRA's and will both qualify for social security in the future.
After being a landlord for nearly 25 years, I'm thinking about selling it all and moving the money into immediate income annuites or some other fix income vehicle so we can travel and live a less stressful lifestyle.
There doesn't seem to be an easy way to avoid capital gains and I realize many of these fixed income investments don't hedge against inflation. Just wondering if anyone else has thought of doing this and what some pathways might be.