If your finances / credit are a shambles and your current income isn't helping you sort it out,     then obviously you need to focus on gaining more income.Set your financial issues aside for now - they're not helping you - and learn to work around them.One of the biggest newbie mistakes is thinking that you need your own money and sterling credit to get into REI.While those certainly do help, if you don't have them, you need to find a different solution.Learn to attract and engage private lenders.Folks with large retirement accounts - medical people, attorneys, ... high-income professionals who may or may not be self-employed - need alternatives to the risks, whims and paltry ROI of Wall Street.

The central focus of the article is how the 20 year job with a retirement plan and a pension is practically gone, and the gig economy is now taking over the market place.

Recent events with my family made me realize I want to work to live and not live to work.Ultimately, I am looking to generate enough cash flow to retire in the next 15-20 years with progressively more freedom until that time to spend with my family.I am currently reading and absorbing as much as I can about REI.

My wife and I have a lofty, but achievable goal of 'retiring' (read: no longer working in an office away from home, full time') before either of us turn 40.  

And that's awesome it makes me happy that you are retired at the age of 32!

The community is about 30 years old and has just voted in favor of building THs that have elevators and will be exclusively a retirement community (for ages 55+).

I am a retired Air Force Veteran turned Lean Six Sigma Black Belt facilitator, teacher and performance improvement consultant for an academic medical center.

(The IRS will tell you that you should amend every tax return that reports this income incorrectly, even if you have to go back through your whole life time).Talk to a real estate knowledgeable CPA about your life, your other sources of income, your retirement goals and your plans and see if you can find a better entity structure than what you've got to help minimize your taxes going forward.

Appears she was very happy to get the money back.On another occasion, I was renting to a retired couple who moved to FL.

I am already retired at 68 years old and am trying to maximize my retirement income during later retirement years.