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We’re Moving to North Carolina

October 31, 2024 By ESI 27 Comments

This was published several months ago inside the Millionaire Money Mentors forums (so it uses language like "are moving," but by now, it's actually "have moved"). I'm running it now as a mini-retirement update as well as to get ESI Money readers up to speed. This post is probably going to surprise a lot of people, though for me, it's been a long time coming. Let me give … [Read more...]

Filed Under: About, Real Estate, Retirement

Syndication Investments Update and What I Have Learned

November 30, 2023 By ESI 14 Comments

As most of you know, interest rates have gone up dramatically over the past year or so. In addition, many of you are aware that I'm a real estate syndication investor and might realize that those deals often involve borrowing (and thus could be susceptible to interest rate changes -- for instance, having variable rate debt in a rising rate world.) Given that, I get a lot … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Invest, Real Estate

Hilton Grand Vacations Presentation, Take Two

July 20, 2023 By ESI 19 Comments

Remember when we attended the Hilton Grand Vacations (HGV) timeshare presentation in D.C.? Well, it's been almost five years and the pain from that has worn off...so, we did it again. Hahahaha. In this post I'll detail what happened with HGV as well as share a few tidbits about our trip to Orlando that surrounded the presentation. Let get to it.. An Invitation from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Real Estate, Retirement, Travel

How To Invest In Short Term Rentals

July 6, 2023 By ESI 5 Comments

Today we have another guest post from Dr. Jeff Anzalone, AKA The Debt Free Doctor. Jeff is no stranger to ESI Money readers as he's written several real estate-focused guest posts here. In fact, he's written so many that I think of him more now as a real estate guy and less as a doctor. Hahaha. His last post here was 10 Ways to Invest in Real Estate for Retirement in case … [Read more...]

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10 Ways to Invest in Real Estate for Retirement

February 23, 2023 By ESI 10 Comments

As you probably know, I have been a real estate investor for just about a decade. I bought my places in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2012-13. Doing so was the combination of the right time to buy (there was still blood in the water from the financial and real estate meltdown) along with a great market (very affordable.) When I tell people today that I bought 14 doors (3 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Invest, Real Estate, Retirement

Where to Get Information on The Villages, Florida

February 16, 2023 By ESI 1 Comment

People often ask me where we got our information/did our research on The Villages (TV) before we moved down here. Unfortunately, there’s not one single source (or even a few) that will contain anything close to everything someone will want to know about such a broad topic. However, we’re fairly good at research and are interested in the topic, so we tried many options … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Real Estate, Retirement

The Villages: Overview and Cost of Living

July 22, 2022 By ESI Leave a Comment

Most of you reading this know that my wife, my dad, and I spent 2.5 months this past winter living in The Villages. For details on that time as well as my review of The Villages, see Thoughts on The Villages, Florida, and Snowbirding, Part 1, Thoughts on The Villages, Florida, and Snowbirding, Part 2, Thoughts on The Villages, Florida, and Snowbirding, Part 3, and Review of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Real Estate, Retirement

7 Best Real Estate Syndication Tax Benefits

April 8, 2022 By ESI 3 Comments

As most of you know, I sold my rental properties last year and invested a good portion of those proceeds into real estate syndication deals. For background what transpired, see these posts: Why and How I Sold Most of My Rental Properties Why and How I Sold My Last Rental Property  My Real Estate Syndication Investing Journey  At the time of this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Invest, Real Estate, Taxes

How My First Property Purchase Went South

March 16, 2022 By ESI 5 Comments

It's been a long and winding road. Hahaha. That's one of my favorite songs from the Beatles. ;) I went from knowing nothing about real estate, to finding a mentor, to buying several places, to running them (through a property manager), to (very recently) selling them all. It was a nine-year saga from end to end. And it was quite successful. My real estate efforts … [Read more...]

Filed Under: About, Invest, Real Estate

That Time I Interviewed David Bach about Real Estate

December 29, 2021 By ESI 7 Comments

In going through posts on my first site (FMF) I discovered something that I didn't remember -- I interviewed David Bach. Yes, THE David Bach, author of The Automatic Millionaire and creator of thoughts like making your finances automatic and the latte factor. I can't believe I forgot that... Anyway, it was 2006 and he had just written his latest book The Automatic … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Giving, Interviews, Real Estate

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