Stop Sleepwalking Through Your Financial Life
Friday, November 26
This article first appeared on www.loadedforlife.com Where is Your Financial Plan? Are you happy with your current financial plans? Did you follow through on your retirement goals from five or ten years ago? Or are you falling short in securing your financial future? Understandably, many househol...
Six Observations from Early Retirement
Friday, November 19
This article first appeared on www.loadedforlife.com Walking Away Feels Better Than Expected I always knew it would be nice to retire. But I did not realize, until it was gone, how refreshing it is to jettison a large inefficient bureaucracy. My work was fascinating but a significant amount of e...
Real Estate Investing: Feeling Priced Out?
Friday, November 12
This article first appeared on www.loadedforlife.com Factors Causing Real Estate Prices to Rise The real estate market remains highly competitive and many buyers are finding it hard to afford a home. These high prices are due to a limited supply of properties, historically low mortgage rates and...
Plan for Replacement Costs in Retirement
Friday, November 05
This article first appeared on www.LoadedforLife.com When it comes to spending in retirement we expect the traditional daily expenses of housing, food, utilities and entertainment. However, some new retirees forget to save for the cost of replacing major items such as appliances or vehicles, or...
Billionaire Tax: Death of a Very Bad Idea
Friday, October 29
This article first appeared on www.loadedforlife.comThe Biden Administration and Congress are working to impose particularly on higher income earners. This includes raising marginal income tax rates and capital gains tax rates. For a brief period these efforts included a new special tax on billi...
Real Estate: How Depreciation Works
Thursday, October 21
This article first appeared on www.loadedforlife.comDepreciation is a Tax Deduction Investors new to real estate are sometimes confused by how depreciation works. Depreciation is simply a tax deduction taken over the useful life of a property. Real estate investors are able to deduct depreciatio...