Bill had just retired from his sales job of 30 years.

With single family homes some neighborhoods have retired bored people who like to harass and complain about rooming houses in their neighborhood. 

You can then use the house as part of your retirement income when you sell or keep renting it.You will typically get a higher class of tenant at this price range that generally doesn't create much hassle for you. 

My wife and I have a couple of teenagers so we are staring down college, and thinking about retirement as we get her parents settled in an assisted living arrangement.

That agent also got the retirement home purchase transaction.

He is a retired airlines pilot from Canada.

I have about 100k in liquid funds available, approximately 80k in current home equity, 70k in retirement accounts.

So here is the situation:I'm retiring from the military next year and can't really figure out what to spend my GI Bill (education benefits) on.  

Also, retirement assets can count as reserves.  

Retire.