Hello, my name is Renee and I am preparing retire at the end of this year.

As much as people frown upon quitting your job before you are "stable", what if you believe in yourself so much that you don't care if you are stable yet or not?

Account Closed  brings up a very good point above- you need to know what you want to spend money on, so you're retired and actually enjoying it, and what you don't need to blow money on.

He is now looking to sell and take the money back to Germany for retirement, the home and 100acres is now valued at approx. $1.8 million, he is looking for an accountant in the area who would have some specialized knowledge in avoiding capital gains tax and other expenses in this type of situation.

When I am near retirement, and ready to live off of some of the income, I will temporarily put everything into increasing those funds to create a quite conservative cushion.

My parents are retired so I was thinking of having them on the payroll to take care of the house when I am gone.

They are normally stable growing areas.

We still like Cache Valley because it is incredibly stable.  

I'm doing this because I don't want to have to worry about if I will be able to retire one day... whether there will be retirement money left for me.

This is something we have both been looking to do on the side for a while in order to take more control and active role in our retirement investing.