August 2022 – User's blog

Tips for saving for retirement

Jason 0 Comments August 24, 2022April 13, 2023 Retire Wealthy

We just don’t save like we used to that’s the verdict from financial experts and we’re not just talking about Millennials they say 45% of baby boomers don’t have any gold IRA retirement savings that’s a staggering number about a quarter of all workers and 21% of retirees say they have less than $1,000 saved according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute’s 2022 retirement confidence survey so we want to help get results for our friends when it comes to getting some money in the bank saved up we’ve invited financial expert James D Virgilio back to news 6 and 9 and you know this is a depressing statistic to think about so if you are already nearing that retirement age very quickly what are some ways to accumulate some wealth in the climate today well if you’re the youngest boomer your age 55 if you’re the oldest your age 75 and the advice is going to depend on what stage you’re in if you’re 55 you need to invest and not save a lot of people say save for retirement but if you put that money in a bank account you’re not going to get enough to be able to retire and if you’re 55 you have to invest a lot we’re talking about 25 percent of your gross income if you’re just 65 years older we’re talking half of your gross income needs to be invested you’re going to delay when you retire to age 70 or age 75 as you age so it can be done but it is difficult yeah that sounds I can’t imagine putting fifty percent of my income into investing and you also say that there’s some things you need to remember when it comes to Social Security this is probably the most important thing for boomers because while not everyone could save that much of their income especially if they haven’t yet taking social security at the right time makes a huge difference you can take it early at age 62 you could take it on time between age 66 and 67 or late if you will at age 70 each year that you wait though you get a guaranteed 8% return in annual payments so it’s generally best to delay this as long as possible that’s going to significantly increase your payout and the most important thing to look at is how healthy you are if you’re not healthy this would change what you’re going to do but Social Security and when to take it one of the most vital things for a baby boomer and you say don’t fall for mythical insurance what is that mythical insurance and this is this is a really important thing to don’t mix insurance with investments don’t purchase the annuities don’t purchase whole life insurance these things are often sold psychologically to eliminate fear when it comes to investing the market may go down I’ll protect you with some sort of insurance but the reality is if we had a sort of financial Armageddon and the markets all went to zero no insurance would pay out on that anyway so they’re going to take your money invest it like you would and they’re going to charge you a lot more so you’re far better off investing this money on your own but we see all those celebrities who look so trustworthy on TV telling us this is what we need so you’re saying that they’re not telling us the right information right they’re selling something to you and I think that’s probably the most important thing we’ll talk about today is how to find somebody that’s not going to sell something to you but someone who’s going to do what’s best for you and how do you find that right person you have to find a fiduciary and that word is often sort of laughed at or made fun of because no one hears about it but it is the most important word in wealth management it means that person is going to do what is best for you at all times ask your financial advisor or the person you’re seeking to hire are you my fiduciary at all times that is the most important question you can ask and so is that the make or break between how much money they make off of the investments that they’re working on with you that’s a piece of it but in reality of fiduciary has a legal obligation to do what is in your best interest 85% of financial advisors are not your fiduciary their job is represent their company the products they sell or to do what is merely suitable for you so there’s a huge difference and not only expertise but also care for you as an individual and everyone that’s different circumstances I believe that they all should be taken care of with their best interests in mind well we talked about baby boomers what about in general because you’re saying young people aren’t saving and there’s a I guess a false sense of security about having plenty of time to start doing that it’s incredibly important no matter what age you are to save ten percent of your gross income and invest that ten percent every single year that’s not a magical number that’s the number that allows you to replicate your standard of living when you get into your 60s and that’s really the goal for all of us accumulating wealth it gives you flexibility it won’t make you happy but it will give you flexibility and it’s really important to have that as we age because we have no idea what our future self is going to be like right and people are living longer and so we have to plan for more years Oh many more years in fact it’s highly likely that out of the three of us here two of us are gonna live past 85 and and maybe one of us live past 90 and so you may retire for 25 or 30 years and that’s why it’s so important to save and invest your money otherwise you will not be able to provide for all of your needs in retirement IRA or 401K now you’re counting on family or social security which may or may not be the same by the time we retire so it’s very very important to provide for yourself through saving and investing but bottom line it’s not too late for any of us it’s not too late for any of us almost I suppose but the most important message is learn from the wisdom of others right save and invest now and begin to provide for yourself wonderful thank you so much advice thank you James

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Jason 0 Comments August 22, 2022 Career after Retirement

Today is a great day for a physician assistant FAQ frequently asked questions now thank you everyone for responding I have a lot of material today so this is going to be a two-part video so be sure to give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel so you don’t miss out on part 2 we’re gonna dive right into this first question personal statement tips and your tips and my experience in that process so personal statement tips think about it the admissions office is getting thousands of applications a day are they going to read your whole essay probably not so most importantly nail the hook now the hook is the first few sentences of your essay so start off with a quote make it interesting draw them into your paper so they will read the whole essay and invite you in for a POA school interview now your personal statement is selling your selfie you want to tell a good story use real people real experiences adjectives emotions make your story seem larger than life be yourself tell the truth don’t make stuff up but present yourself in a way that missions is thinking hey this person seems pretty cool I want them like them back I want to meet them in person and hopefully offer you a spot in the PA program as far as interview tips I have a previous video I’ll link it below going in detail about that and I experienced in the process that is a great video idea so I will say that for the feature I be asked about finding shadowing opportunities this can be kind of difficult an easy way is volunteering at the hospital hospitals always need more volunteers and it looks amazing absolutely amazing on your application you have volunteer departments that allow you to have hands-on experience if I got a lot of my hours in the ER and also in the pharmacy and the other thing you can do is ask your doctor I asked my ortho hey I’m your patient is it okay if I shadow you and it was one of my favorite opportunities something else that looks great do some research doing a medical mission trip you’re changing lives in third-world countries that’s usually where they’re located again life-changing experience really exposes to you and shows you how lucky and blessed you are to live and have such great privileges in our country and also looks great on the resume lastly I would email reach out to random small clinics in the area you’d be surprised a lot of them are pretty willing to take on students or let you shadow because again as a provider I love telling people about my profession and getting more people into medicine rebecca asks about ways to improve and stand out as a reallocate so I got into PA school on my second try most people I talked to it’s pretty common to get in on your second try you’re competing against thousands of people the class I applied to I believe had five thousand applications which is pretty increasing pants what I would recommend is in your application prove to the school especially if you’re applying the same program and how your application is different than last year what steps you took to improve and try to bump up your GPA try to prove to them that your package is different than last year and that you should get a second chance and getting invite to the program this is a great question Corey asked about note taking techniques / time management etc survival tactics one thing I learned the hard way is that they go through a gazillion slides in an hour which is crazy but realistically it’s not uncommon to have a hundred slides per one hour lecture so for me there was no way I could handwrite that fast so my top tip is probably to have a computer I found it easiest to type on the bottom of the slides and trying my best to review the slides that same diaper if not the next day so it’s fresh in my brain something out some points you remember you’re in school from 8 to 5 you’re already exhausted and you’re going to go home and study for a few more hours and be more exhausted so if you’re not retaining any information it’s better to take a 30-minute break recoup go on a walk so knowing when to take a break is probably my biggest tip for survival as far as time management making a checklist it feels so satisfying to check things off the list that way you have a list of daily goals of course you’re probably not going to get through all them but just knowing how to plan out today how did partition your time is super helpful in time and management another big tip of mine is to just keep looking forward to the future my friends in PA school will make a joke how many sleeps until the next break so five sleeps until Christmas vacation two sleeps to the weekend just something fun to look at so remember how lucky you are to be in school and that you’re chosen out of thousands of people so don’t worry he got through the worst of it getting into school the end is near same brand asks about how to beef up your GPA most efficiently post-grad so for PA school minimum needing to be above of course you don’t want to be just at the minimum try your best for a As so I would say anything that’s below a B you definitely want to retake things like Anatomy med term that’s gonna be super helpful in PA school anything that’s borderline B B+ I would probably retake as well to boost up your GPA so it’s really important to have a strong foundation in anatomy in microbiology medical terminology you can even take some farm classes to the show that you’re getting a jumpstart into the PA school curriculum this is my last question of the day is how to deal with anxiety now PA school is going to be one of the most stressful experiences of your life it was definitely super stressful for me and remember you’re not alone there are a lot of people who ended up going just temporarily on anti-anxiety medications or seeking counseling does not mean you’re crazy it’s actually okay and healthy to go out and get help so again if you feel like this is you it is not uncommon and it’s important for you and for your sanity to do that what I did to deal with anxiety is to make sure to always do something that makes me happy I did continue to teach figure skating part time just a few hours a week you know it was crazy to work during PA school but in my mind it was better to work three or four hours a week teaching figure skating and doing something I love rather than spend two to three hours staring at a textbook not rotating any information wanting to throw my textbooks out the window other things people like to do yoga hot yoga dancing music writing any type of hobby that you still love just remember to take time to do it and then I think that really helps was just getting away from school just going home on the weekends hanging out with non PA school friends i love-love-love on my PA school friends but one role that we would joke around about is getting together not talking about PA school not talking about tests or studying anything stressful we wouldn’t even have this joke if you talk about it you gotta take a shot so just try not to talk about stressful things and try to keep things light hearted hanging out with friends not frumpy a school or family from home just to you know just don’t you that’s how school is going just keeping your mind off of it just staying calm most schools also offer fun things to do they may have something like intramurals a great way to meet up a friend another program to the school and get some energy and endorphins out and just relax so that’s all the time we have today for these frequently asked questions about PA school and the PA life stay tuned to part two of the video where I answer my questions and see you guys next time

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Jason 0 Comments August 20, 2022 Retire Wealthy

So you want to become rich without any money? haha! you can totally do that! It’s awesome. I know because I did. Kris Krohn here with Limitless TV and we’re going to be talking about different ways of creating wealth. I’ll even give you one of my favorite proven systems of exactly how I did it. So if you got no money and you want to become wealthy, if you want to become rich there’s two different ways. Two different approaches you can do. You can either use a proven method or you can be the creator of a method. And I want you to understand the risk between both of these concepts. If you leverage a proven method, this is what I did and I’ll share with you what I did. Or the difference of actually creating something novel like, like think of the guy that started Facebook right? I mean he created this really amazing idea now he’s a multi-billionaire. By far, the safest way to become wealthy is to already leverage proven paths. That may not be your path. You may be, you may feel called the pioneer something different in something new. For me personally, my whole story in life began on my journey to creating wealth to leveraging proven existing systems. And this is coming from a place where I was $8,700 in debt.

I didn’t, wasn’t making enough money at my job to actually cover and pay all of my bills. The thing that made the difference was getting a mentor based on a proven path. There were three men that I worked with all of which had made over ten million dollars and these individuals all made their money through real estate investing. This is something anyone can do. In fact, the first fourteen months of being mentored I didn’t buy a property and I wasn’t making any money but I was following their system in their path of developing credit putting a little money in savings, penny-pinching.

It ultimately put me in a position to buy my first house. In my first house when people came over the for the for the for the housewarming party, what they didn’t realize was this wasn’t going to be my house very long. I really was renting out the basement it was covering my whole mortgage and I bought the house with $40,000 of equity. So the house was an investment and that house bought my second house and the equity in those homes bought my third house and with with no money, other than 14 months of saving five thousand dollars, thirty five hundred which I used to buy this house, same strategies existing in our world today. Those homes became 50 homes, became a hundred homes, became hundreds of homes, and I built all of that without any money out of my own pocket but I did it through working with mentors that knew a proven system and a proven path. And in this next video segment, I want to really share with you exactly how I did that because if you want to create wealth for nothing, you’re going to need to take the right advice, stick to the plan, and execute it like I’m about to show you.

I’m going to show you exactly how I became wealthy with no money and I’m going to show you exactly how I did it and the advice that I took from my mentor and what it started with is, number one, is you need to have a mentor. Okay? This is someone that knows your situation, has been where you want to be, and is going to be able to give you the right kind of advice. The next thing that you’re going to need is you’re going to need a system. I’m going to show you the system right now. And then, between these two things, the last thing that I’m going to encourage you to need is a team. And team essentially means that you don’t have to wear all the hats of all the successful operations of putting this in place.

You just need to tap into other people’s brilliant abilities because anything that you don’t currently know how to do you don’t have to learn it you just have to have that person on your team. Here’s what I did. The advice that I have received from my mentor that showed me the system that helped me put the team together was, number one, is I needed to develop my credit so that I could buy a house. For some of you that might mean credit repair. For me, I was young and didn’t have credit so I needed to establish credit. I was told to have three lines of credit. I only had one. So I got two more credit cards and I was responsibly using them. How do you do that if you got bad credit? hire a credit repair company to fix that. Learn how to get good credit for the system to work. And then the second one was you have to have enough money for a small down payment. Which for me was $5000. And then the last thing that I needed to do for the system was I needed to stay in the same line of work for two years.

So for example, I couldn’t be a seamstress or for a year and then like become a guinea pig trainer for a year because those are two very different lines of work. We’re jobs um, so, these are the three things that I needed to have and then this is what happened. 14 months later, I possessed these things. 14 months later, I had developed my credit. 14 months later, I had saved my 5 grand and 14 months later I had completed my two-year work history. I was thinking about changing jobs. I didn’t. Do you know why? cause I was following the advice of my mentor who walked me into the system. What I did is it allowed me to buy a house and I bought not just any ordinary house, I bought a house with $40,000. A pirate booty in it, right? I’m talking about equity. House was worth 150,000. I bought it for 110,000 so my net worth went up $40,000 which by the way was more than double what I made in a year.

So I’m talking about Kris Krohn starting out poor. Right? and then this house had a basement apartment and the basement apartment covered my mortgage. So that was kind of cool because I got to live for free. Which meant that I eliminated my biggest expense at that time in my life. The reason why this system was important was because twelve months later I was able to get a home equity line of credit. I got other videos on the channel here where you can research what that is.

And I was able to access this money and I used it to do what? I use it to buy a second home. Now I still lived in this home but I bought this house with well over fifty thousand dollars a pirate booty, is exciting. And then the other thing is I rented out this house and it had a $500 a month cash flow. So, collectively between my two homes my net worth was around $100,000 and I was living for free and getting paid 500 a month. Then guess what I did? Oh you’re so smart. I did it again. I then, this was my P for primary residence, this was I for investment. The third house I did was that I moved into a new primary residence. This one became a rental and I rented it out and made $500 a month cash flow. So guess what? I’m making over a thousand dollars a month.

I bought this house with, you guessed it $50,000 of equity love that pirate booty and it also had a basement apartment that paid for my mortgage. Living for free, net worth of a hundred and fifty thousand dollars, making five hundred dollars a month here, five hundred dollars a month here. So are you starting to see how the system worked? the equity in this house then got used to purchase my fourth house which was an investment property that had a cash flow. And then I just started doing that system over and over again. Now by the time I have four homes I went into Phase two of the system. And Phase two of the system was now starting to approach people with money and saying, look at my track record on my portfolio. Look at my pirate booty, look at my cash flow, would you like some of that booty? and would you like some of that cash flow? I can find the deals. I’ve got a system in the team to make this work I need your money.

And you know what? everyone I approached that saw my return said what? I’ll partner with this kid. And from that point on I started buying homes left and right without money or credit. Right now, I’m selling off one to two homes a month. I’m making tens of thousands of dollars every month on homes I bought years ago using someone else’s money, reinvesting, and buy more homes. So this is a really fantastic system this is exactly how I did it. And again if you want to be wealthy with no money and do that, you can either go start a Facebook and go down and pioneer path something that’s never been done before or you can leverage proven systems.

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Jason 0 Comments August 19, 2022 Retirement Planning

Hi everyone the lesson here for money evolution calm in today’s video I’m going to be talking about the retirement planning timeline and some of the key ages and milestones that you might want to think about in terms of your financial planning and getting ready for retirement so let’s start all the way over here on the left at age 50 is what we call where the serious retirement planning phase begin so that’s the age where oftentimes people may have gone through a major transition maybe your kids have moved out of the house maybe your cash flow is starting to improve because maybe you paid some debts off or your house off or you’re just starting to think about hey if we want to retire in 5 or 10 years what do we need to do to make that happen and what are some of the planning steps so 50 is the serious planning phase begins age 55 is another key milestone then not a lot of people are aware of but that’s the age where if you get to that age and you’ve retired on or after your 55th birthday you can take penalty-free withdrawals from your 401k plan so that’s a question we get a lot where somebody wants to retire 57 or 58 and they want to start taking some withdrawals but they don’t know how to do it well if as you keep the money in your 401k plan you can take those penalty-free as long as you separate after age 55 59 and a half is what we call the normal retirement age that’s where you can start taking penalty-free withdrawals from all of your retirement accounts 401ks and IRAs so that’s the magic age that the IRS has put on us 62 is the age when you’re eligible for Social Security benefits as an early collector so that’s the earliest that you’re eligible for your Social Security benefits 65 is the age where Medicare kicks in so that’s another important milestone for many of you watching this you may want to retire prior to age 65 unfortunately before age 65 you’re going to either have to hopefully have some insurance provided by your former employer or you’re gonna have to go out into the exchanges and buy that insurance on your own that’s something we talked about and some of our other videos there but 65 things get a little bit better you get on Medicare age 67 is what we call the full retirement what Social Security ministration calls your full retirement age so that’s where you get unreduced Social Security benefits and then at age 70 is the latest that you can delay collecting Social Security so if you wait past your 67th birthday you’re going to get about an 8% increase for every year that you wait but you can wait past that 70 but doesn’t make sense to you’re not going to get any additional benefit by waiting past age 70 and then 70 and a half is where whether you have a retirement withdrawal strategy or not the IRS has one for you and it’s called the required minimum distribution rules or RMDs and that’s basically if you have money in traditional retirement accounts the IRS has said hey you’ve gone long enough without taking it in this money out you need to start taking withdrawals and start paying some of the taxes on that money so all of this here that we’re looking at if you think about how your income and expenses work while you’re still working they’re gonna be you know pretty consistent you’ve got some income coming in you’ve got some expenses hopefully you’ve got some cash flow leftover at the end hopefully you’re saving some of that additional cash flow but then once retirement kicks in let’s say you retired at age 57 well you might not have any income coming in or maybe you have a small pension or a big pension coming in but you’re not even eligible for example to get Social Security benefits you may have higher expenses because you’re paying healthcare premiums out in the exchanges so at age 62 if you take Social Security benefits maybe that kicks your income up maybe your expenses go down once Medicare kicks since there’s a lot of this variability that’s going on so one of the things that we want to understand as we’re going through this retirement timeline is we want to understand a couple of things we understand what is our income today and more importantly or more specifically we want to know what is your tax rate today because that’s going to be very important for us in determining what that future withdraw strategy is going to be and maybe how or where we save that money while we’re still working so that’s very important versus that tax rate out here in retirement the other thing we want to understand is what we call your retirement gap and everybody pretty much has a retirement gap that’s why you say money for retirement so that you can start to take some withdrawals from your portfolio but understanding that gap is going to tell you or us how much money you might need to take from those retirement accounts it’s also going to factor into the more money you have to take out the higher that tax rate is going to be so we’re going to start to learn a little bit about what those tax rates are going to be throughout retirement and one of the things that we notice is generally from the time somebody retires to maybe age 62 or maybe even all the way to age 67 if you delay taking Social Security these are what we call the low tax years for many people and that that gives us some opportunity to do a couple of things number one it gives us a strategy for taking withdrawals because in these low tax years if we’re in a lower effective tax rate we can take more money out of those retirement accounts and do it at a reduced tax rate we also can look at doing something called a Roth conversion and so basically what that is is saying okay we’ve got some money in a traditional retirement account and hopefully if that money grows between now and age 70 and a half those accounts can sometimes grow fairly large which means that at age 70 and a half if you haven’t done anything preemptively before then you could end up in a potentially really high tax bracket so by doing a Roth conversion and taking advantage some of these low tax years kind of preempts that a little bit and as allows you to kind of spread that income out over a longer time period so having some really low tax years here and some really high tax years there we can kind of spread that out and keep hopefully things at a lower tax rate throughout retirement so those are some of the planning strategies that we do the other factor that goes into play here on having higher taxes is that also is going to affect your Medicare premiums so Medicare premiums if you don’t know already is tied to the amount of income that you made from actually the prior two years ago basically and higher that income is the higher the Medicare premiums are going to be and sometimes that could be substantial as well so by keeping that income a little bit more consistent hopefully can maybe keep your Medicare premiums a little bit lower as well so these all of some of the planning strategies that go into it the last thing I want to talk about here is in looking at some of these low tax years the potential RMDs we want to look at where are you contributing money while you’re still working and oftentimes what we see a lot is that people have put the majority of their money in traditional retirement accounts those are monies that they get an immediate tax benefit today because it comes off of your income and that’s what people like but again what that might be doing is putting them in a position where they’re paying more taxes in the future so for a lot of people you might want to consider look at making Roth contributions while you’re still working and balance that out a little bit because that’s going to be a situation where you’re not getting any tax benefit today but you can take tax-free withdrawals in retirement so it gives you a little bit of a balance there so hope this has been helpful hope this is helped make some sense on some of the things you should be looking at at these different ages this is something we do all the time with our clients and we do this through our wealth vision comprehensive financial plan of course we get into a lot more detail a lot more information about the tax rates and some of these strategies here

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Jason 0 Comments August 18, 2022 Retire Wealthy Tips for Retiree's

Hey everybody welcome in on this snowy snowy Wednesday wherever you’re joining us from let us know where you joining us from today hey everybody welcome in to the investing in real estate show today we’re gonna have some fun talking about how to retire at 40 how to retire by 40 Sean says hello from Brooklyn New York how much snow are you getting out there Sean we get this massive nor’easter once again and once again so the kids are off school just I’m over it I am over it I know there’s gonna be people are there I’m right in here and say they’re there joining us from there out in California and they’re living living large yeah Aaron is running us from Miami Florida there you go Wong from Miami thanks so much rub it in rub it in rub it in everybody so we’re gonna get this show started in just about three minutes South Africa Indianapolis Moses welcome Pottstown you’re getting hit with some snow right now Matthew Bishop Lakeland Florida hey Matthew yeah I guess California you guys are getting hit with some crazy stuff out there today too huh yeah they cancelled school last night I don’t know I you know growing up I don’t ever remember them canceling school like the night before did you guys ever have that growing up it was like he’d wake up and he would sit and listen to the radio and you would wait you know I was in Pennsylvania I would be all be waiting to listen for our school if it was canceled I’d be in one-hour delay a two-hour delay and you were hoping that they would cancel it but I never had the night before they send out a text message letting you know that hey your school was cancelled and that was never the case for me never never did you do all right we’re gonna get started in just a moment here it’s gonna pull up this today we’re gonna talk about how to retire by 40 and we’ll start here in just about one minute one minute one minute Jerome aramid says hey a guy you talked to me more than two weeks you never came back to me you can take care of this later I know you’re alive nobody emailed me the first appointment Jerome who did you talk to on my team let me know and we’ve got some people in from our team right here in the chat thread as well we can Mike you know a lot of times people will send follow-up emails it goes to your spam folder sometimes people when they initially signup for phone calls with our team they put in the wrong phone number and then they later writes it well I put the wrong phone number in and so our team will be calling and they can’t get ahold of you so I apologize for that and Rudy Rudy please check your spam folder please please please because our team is very good about follow-up and we have hundreds of clients around the world so I apologize for that you know because if someone sends you a PDF it might go right to your spam folder and then you’re like oh I never emailed me just check your junk folder and who are you talking to please let us know we’ll make sure we get you all squared away we have a waiting list for people to get on the phone with us for like a few weeks so I don’t ever want anyone to feel like we don’t get proper follow-up from our team that’s very important so I’ve got our team right now who is in our chat thread we’ll go through and make sure that we get you all taken care of so I apologize for that all right so we are live it is it is a.m.

And we’re gonna kick off the show after the show I’m gonna do you know to talk about this article talk about how to retire at 40 and then after the show we’ll kind of open it up for a few minutes of Q&A if that works for all of you and we’ll just kind of answer some real estate questions some of the things you’re struggling with you’re hoping to achieve and we’ll talk we’ll do that all right Forrest wants to knows are still owners software coming out for Morrison fest yes indeed in fact we’ve been working on it for for since like August it’s all custom it’s been a lot of tweaking we want it to just be perfect Peter Cook says I’ve had very good follow-up thank you Peter appreciate it and James Frederico o1r from our team is right in here he says hey Jerome I got you all reach back out to you and take care of you good good good all right so we’re gonna get started here and we’re going to talk about this in a second so first so again at the end of the show we’ll take some QA and we’ll do that as well let me just get this all dialed in we’re recording we got the audio up and running is everything sound ok guys you guys can hear me give me a thumbs up you guys are all good Brandon yes absolutely because some of those beat class properties you’re asking about the verb method absolutely because you know buying those 60 70 thousand dollar homes those the banks love they’re able to do you know easy refinances on those because there’s easy comps to pull in the neighborhood because there’s retail sales so I would stay away from like the 3040 thousand dollar stuff if you want to really do like a solid brr-brr method stuff if that’s what you’re looking for all right sounds good alright so we’re gonna get started all right all right and let’s get this show started all right today on today’s show we’re talking about how to retire by 40 a news article from the mainstream media it’s kind of total garbage that’s today’s show let’s dive into it hey everyone I’m Clayton Morris longtime real estate investor founder of Morris invest if you’re new to the channel thank you so much for joining us and subscribing I hope that you’re a subscriber because there’s where we talk about passive income building legacy wealth for you and your family that’s the goal right and the vehicle that we use is buy and hold real estate but I don’t care about the real estate right I don’t care about the four walls and a roof I just bought 15 houses this week that we’re about to rehab okay I don’t care what they look like because once we get them it doesn’t matter what I’m buying as a tax shelter and that’s what you should be focusing on buying a tax shelter that’s what this show is all about on today’s show I want to talk about how to retire by 40 and I want to preface this by saying that I got this from an email from a listener a viewer of our show who is getting involved in real estate investing Jesse Daley sent me this email and he said hey Clayton I hope you’re doing well man I thought you’d find this article interesting especially how the writer literally doesn’t mention anything about investing in real estate there’s only a one quick mention of a condo adding to net worth and nothing else in this article I’m so happy that your podcast teaches people how to truly invest properly and retire by the age of 40 this they should have interviewed you for this article so thank you Jesse I promised I would give you a shout out here on the show and I want to go into this article so again I have lampooned some of these CNNMoney articles over the past few years have done shows about these things because I just find them ridiculous I find them ridiculous that they’re telling people to invest in their 401k and then that’s the way that you build retirement that’s the way that you’re able to retire by 40 years old I mean how many people are you know you just like a show of hands you’re listening right now how many of you think you could actually retire by 40 years old just with your 401k of course you can it’s ridiculous the average 401k retirement in this country guess what according to Time magazine is 90 thousand dollars can you retire on that no way so I want to go through this article because it’s a lot of fun and Jesse sent it to me so these are tips from CNN money on how to retire by forty three proven tips three proven tips so let’s go Chris reading isn’t your average retiree he said goodbye to his working years at 37 and is now financially independent living his life on his own terms that’s great now he had 4500 dollars in debt and when he started working he got through all of that he finally found a well-paying job working cyber security took out a mortgage bought a condo and financed a BMW okay alright took out a mortgage on a home bought a condo and financed a BMW on our way to success but then he started to wonder is this all there is he finally said I can’t do this for 40 years in his late 20s he started searching for alternatives and he read the book your money your life by Joe da Menendez and Vicki Robin and he said look there’s other ways of becoming financially independent so he then felt that he had enough to live the rest of his life on his savings and investments without having to work again it took two more years of showing up the cubicle for him to be sure than a 37 he finally walked away so what did he do okay here were his strategies here where his strategies for becoming financially independent and retiring at 40 years old number one save more save more okay so his strategy according to the CNN Money article is cut he cut back on going out to dinner and he cut back on buying lattes so he just started saving more really so let me get this straight that’s the way that you can sustain yourself for the rest of your life by retiring at 40 years old from your job it’s just having enough in the bank you think that you’re gonna have if the average 401k retirement is ninety thousand dollars can you really live the lifestyle that you want so now you’re cutting back on dinners in order to save some money you’re not buying coffee so what Natalie and I’ve talked about here on the show repeatedly is the idea of not having to shrink your lifestyle why not find out what your freedom number is using real estate find out what your freedom number is and actually have enough passive income every month coming in the cash flows you’re creating a tax shelter for yourself and enabling you to live the life that you want so you can’t go buy a latte I find that ridiculous you know David Bach wrote about that in his book the automatic millionaire a years ago and look if you’re $40,000 in debt yes maybe not buying a five-dollar coffee every day is probably not a smart strategy you know also if you’re a smoker you know spending ten bucks a day on cigarettes or whatever it’s probably you know not a smart strategy if you want to claw your way out of debt I get that part of it but as a way of sustaining yourself and retiring at forty years old just saving more savers are losers that money in a bank account is doing nothing for you what about buying performing assets that are actually producing cash flow I mean come on so when he says look where people get into trouble with savings that they think they have to use reusable toilet paper and eat chicken broth but real basically you just you’ll never spend zero dollars find a level of living that you’re come with and work on earning more without increasing your expenses so he’s just saying earn more save more cut out lattes and you can retire at 40 I don’t buy that for a second number to earn more okay that’s his second tip earn more great so let’s save more and earn more again a paycheck job the tax code is written for wealthy people the tax code is written for entrepreneurs who own businesses who own real estate that’s what the tax code is written for it’s not written for a w-2 employee so earn more so what he says is your actual jobs only part of your work in order to earn the kind of money where you can live on only half or less of your salary so take that extra money socket away that’s what he’s saying so work harder right work for a paycheck get taxed as like in the highest tax bracket by the federal government right because we know that paycheck employees under the new tax code or hurt the worst he says this career-boosting work can include earning advanced degrees oh that’s great so his other bit of advice on this is go out and spend a hundred thousand dollars on getting an advanced degree so go get your master’s degree that’s only what a hundred thousand dollars that’s only a hundred thousand dollars right just go get it a master’s degree so that’s smart so save more earn more by spending more on getting an advanced degree or certifications and then that way you’ll have people who will look at you more favorably in the office and be able to elevate you higher that’s great so it’s important understand the weak areas and he says look I finding mentors okay that’s good yes definitely finding mentors as a very smart move finding mentors who can help propel you and then number three he says invest more so he says the most powerful mechanism for investment right now it’s built into their job it’s the 401k invest in your 401 K and a two or three percent return contributing at the level where you get the employer match is a must and that’s your biggest benefit and that’s how you can retire by 40 that’s the article unbelievable so okay ridiculous right that’s how you could retire at 40 no no that’s not how you can retire it 40 and that’s not how you could live comfortably and live the life that you want and be able to produce legacy wealth for your family for the rest of your life so he’s now retired he’s living off of savings but he’s got no assets that are actually performing for him for the rest of his life he’s got a V BMW that he bought financed and he has a mortgage on a condo that he lives in he has no performing assets that is not financial intelligence any way you slice it wouldn’t it have made more sense instead of saving that money while he was working for that cybersecurity company to take that money and invest it in real estate by a performing asset that cash flows that’s how you control and move your family forward that’s how you can build true legacy wealth for you and your family but actually taking money and buying a BMW buying a liability remember all you need to remember is if you’re buying liabilities a liability is something that does not produce cashflow now if he bought that BMW and used it as an uber driver that was producing cash flow that’s a different scenario or if he rented out that BMW that’s a different scenario but I love these I love these articles and again this is all sort of couched around the idea of the mainstream media right the mainstream media wants you to believe that a paycheck employer job is the way to go that getting a 401 K having their company sort of automatically do it for you because you’re too dumb to do it yourself have them handle it have them streamline it and that’s how you that’s how you have a strong safety net we’ve been trained to believe that being secure is having a paycheck job you know again I come back to the I keep seeing this commercial and I’m sure so many of you have seen this commercial over the past few weeks I saw it first during the World Series and they continue to run this stupid thing where it shows a couple you know they’re in their late 60’s and they’re sitting there with a how it’s a Merrill Lynch advisor and the Merrill Lynch adviser says well it looks like the plan worked and you’re gonna be able to have that retirement you wanted and I looked at you look on the iPad app that they’re handing to the couple and he’s like honey we did it we can do it we can live that life we wanted retirement and it shows that their income is enough they’re gonna have about seventy thousand dollars to work with like if you look at if you actually look at the numbers on that screen seventy thousand dollars so now they’re almost at retirement and then the next clip it shows them in a boat with their granddaughter right there sailing off into the sunset like some small little boat with their granddaughter and the little girl says aye aye captain you know and she she’s driving the boat so this is their retirement they finally did it right they had a wait till they’re 70 to buy a boat and to be able to sleep in and spend a little bit of time with her grandkids be all because they had their month their money managed by a financial advisor that was taken out big fees and investing in a stock market and not investing in real estate and cash flowing assets so there you go that’s my frustration there you go that’s my my little my little two cents my little rant about these types of mainstream media articles and when you see them on TV just roll your eyes think about it for a second saving more earning more get an advanced degree spend $100,000 on a master’s degree and then use a 401k that’s how you’re able to retire at 40 that is total garbage that is total garbage unless maybe the guy wants to go live in like Thailand by himself with no kids and he wants to live like in a hut somewhere for the rest of his life and he doesn’t care about actually having any income or cash to be able to buy anything or any food or live the life that he wants I find it to be total garbage I’d love to hear your comments and your reactions to this please send them to us and I really thank you so much so that’s gonna do it for that and thank you so much for subscribing to the show I really appreciate it this is the investing in real estate show you can please subscribe share it with your friends and and you know please go out there take action become a real estate investor because I believe it’s the number one way to build wealth we’ll see you next time everyone all right now with that that’s the show so anyone who wanted to get just the shortened version of that but hey now we’re gonna open up this agree to some Q&A here in the show we got so much so I saw so many chat threads coming through here asking questions alright so fire them up here alright alright Joel says I’ve also had an email a few times hit reschedule my call but no response and said ok Joel no worries we’ll get you all straightened out I apologize like if people miss their phone appointments cuz like I said we Deanna with our team we have like calls are booked out I think about two weeks and so if we call them like goes to voicemail and then we’re trying to reschedule it so we really try to make sure we can get on the get on the same get on the same on the same page Jinger I’m sorry again what’s going on Jinger we’ll get to the bottom of this so I’m gonna make a list of anyone who didn’t get a call back so I apologize alright so can you guys tell me Arum says Glen and Nicole from your team have been great awesome ok so we will dial some of the stuff in ginger and I’m sorry I will get some of these people on your on your team to make sure we get it all taken care of thank you guys let’s see all right you know I’m glad you’re not upset no I just you know we if sometimes emails get back and forth and we’re trying to make sure that everyone gets taken care of okay are Tuffle get you back on your property okay let’s the ad tapper says what do you think about joint ventures they have the money I do appraisals marketing and brother does the renovations hey jayvees are great right you need to build a great team for real estate investing that’s very important you have to have a great team to do real estate investing well Kelly just uh Kelly Cheatham says I want to hear more about your program great just booked a call with our team Kelly and Morris invest comm we’re doing some great things and I’m really excited about some of the new properties that that we purchased that we’re about to do we’ve already designed our contractors to dive in and start rehabbing see Charlie 18 says our new Hara Sean wants to know one of the price of the new house is being built our new houses the three-bedroom two-bathroom right around seventy seventy thousand okay Charlie eighteen I’m gonna answer this question how does it LLC save you on your taxes on your rental how does it LLC save you taxes on your rental properties a lot of the stuff I’ve been reading times about pass-through income I never thought I thought that that was taxed the same way as a sole proprietor yes however remember that under the new tax law as a pass-through entity as a pastor entity you’re now getting an additional 20% deduction 20% and remember when you have your your properties in an LLC you’re being taxed as a business and you’re able then to depreciate spread that money over all those other your w-2 income and those other things so I’ve just an all series of videos on understanding tax shelters and remember what you’re buying as a tax shelter so forget about buying real estate you know I have talked about Lane I like for repairs so repairs add to your tax shelter helps mitigate your overall cash flow because remember what you’re buying in the beginning in a 3-stage is a real estate investing right buy own and cashflow what you’re buying in the beginning you’re adding to your net worth so I don’t care about the cashflow necessarily until years later but you’re buying and adding to your net worth you’re creating a tax shelter for yourself you’re able to mitigate your w2 income you’re able to offset all of those things so I would love to hear what you guys thought about today’s show and the article please let me know I’d love to hear you which you you know what you thought about that Kelly are speaking of the computer program Oh Kelly yeah we’re building a personal owner portal for our clients that the software I mean it’s just it’s and make it much easier so that we don’t like our team doesn’t have to send out Purchase Agreements it’ll be right there because we have so many clients it like we’ll have like three or four clients and want the same house and so a little like yeah give you a purchase agreement and it’s kind of like first-come first-serve and then our team has to send out a purchase agreement wait till it’s signed and all that BS so this will make it very easy for them to be able to click right on it and then open up DocuSign and be able to do it and pretty great Ryan Millie says okay what are the mechanics after purchasing one property to purchase another property or two and repeat the process over and over again where does that money come from well ideally it could come from a bank right or it could come from private money it could come from you know we we talked about a company that we work with called fund and grow less you know if you go to our if you go to our website Morris and vest com slash funding you don’t pay them any money until they actually if they get you money zero percent Interest but why would look at okay so let’s just take the mechanics of that to answer your question so I would say you know buying like a sixty seventy thousand dollar rental property and then leveraging that right so maybe putting or or if you have the cash to do that right that ideally if you could come out of the gate you have the cash to purchase your first one free and clear that’s more of a B Class play you know that’s sort of B minus like 60 65 70 K place play that’s kind of maybe you know it’s transitioning up to sort of an a-class neighborhood and it you know coud appraised in a few years at 80 or 75 that’s the play right so buying that if you could buy that with cash right and then refinancing a pull some equity back out of that and then be able to roll that next amount of cash the bank just gave you into your next property into your second property and then into your third property a buddy of mine here in New Jersey started and did that on an eighty thousand dollar property he now has over two thousand units here our DNA and money when he started and he bought that first property that first property allowed him the snowball and all of these other properties and identity jjh yeah unfortunately JJ was said you purchase second property in Indy in November we’ll hopefully get an answer for you an update on where we’re at with the rehab and we’ll also make sure we connect you with the right management team if you’re having some issues you know we work with a 8 different property management teams so what gets you sort it out so just you know email our team you know the team you know our team at Morris invest email us we had a really really really unusually harsh winter that set us back about four or five weeks on construction this year with like a deep freeze we had stuff all the way through Michigan into Indiana down into Pennsylvania where we just had all kinds of problems Ryan you are absolutely welcome thank you so much Sean says you weren’t able to pull cash off the cards they got through funding to grow yeah that’s unfortunate we have literally funny grows enabled our clients to raise over 20 million dollars for purchases of real estate so I’m not sure why that person had an issue they’re very very good at walking you through step by step I just would say reach out to them and make sure that you’re working with them they they have a thing with gold money so basically they use the cards to buy gold and then you transfer the gold into cash it’s like a little bit of a few hoops to jump through but hey it’s 0% interest for a year you know hey beggars can’t be choosers right we were able to get a hundred and seventy six thousand dollars in cash because of them in order to purchase real estate so it’s an amazing strategy so again and you’ll save like five hundred bucks if you go through our website because we’ve asked them to do that for people who watch us and who listen to us so if you go to Morris invest com slash funding check it out it might not be for you if it is great just check them out you know I have a phone call with them Joe Joe wants to know what appliances do you provide actually I don’t do any appliances in our properties now that is to say if we move into some of the b-class properties we some we will sometimes put in a fridge and stove and things like that but far as a washer and dryer we have I made that mistake when I first started in Michigan I bought all appliances and found out that I didn’t need to that it’s commonplace that tenants will provide all of their appliances they will usually typically go down to a local you know like a little scratch and dent company etc or that’s where I bought my first appliances when I had my first condo in Florida I went to a local scratch and dent place they’re brand new that may have like a tiny little little scratchy scratch on the side and you get a great deal on a bundle of appliances so that’s what most client most tenants will do and then they’ll keep them for many many years so you don’t have to worry about it so Daniel wants to know what’s the fee for you guys to do investing for me there is no fee with us at all I know some other companies charge like ten percent all that stuff we don’t do that you’re just buying the house we just you know and try to get it all stabilized for you with property management team and cash flowing so you don’t have any additional fees you own the property free and clear Jimmy says how do you organize your banking system for your real estate business great question Jimmy you know we have a couple of podcast episodes Natalie and I do where we talk about how to run your you know your family business and finances for real estate investing if you want to check out the investing in real estate podcast you can do so and we have some of those episodes you know the short answer is that you want to have bank accounts set up for your taxes you want to have bank accounts set up for your LLC that owns your rental property and personally so I have LLC’s that own my rental properties those LLC’s have their own bank account so when the cash flow from the tenant comes in I Clayton Morris don’t touch that money that goes into the business then I can pull that money out but you can’t commingle money like you don’t if it’s a business that owns your real estate you don’t want that money coming in to your personal bank account that’s called commingling that’s illegal the IRS does not look favorably upon that so you want to do everything aboveboard making sure that everything is flowing the way that it should Bobby yes what’s the best way to start a property management team no cash but at the time and looking to help investors well I would say to start a property management company takes about a hundred and fifty thousand dollars I know this to be the case so right away to be spending one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to set everything up okay you’re gonna need you’re gonna need to pay for software things like rent manager appFolio those types of things you’re gonna want to hire an accountant you’re gonna want to hire an office manager you’re gonna need to hire leasing agent you also need to get a brokerage right you need to have a brokerage license to make sure that you can manage property so all those things cost some money so to start a property management company that’s what about that’s what it roughly costs and then about if you have more than 100 properties the rule of thumb is for every hundred properties or so you’re gonna want to add another human being to your to your company to facilitate those properties that came to me as a friend of mine who ran his own property management company those are the exact numbers that he used James wants so what’s the area oh it’s just on the website to find the gold funding option so just go to Morris and Vess comm slash funding it’s sort of a hidden page because we don’t like promote it but it’s there if you sign up like I said you’ll save 500 bucks once they get you the money you don’t pay anything until they get you the cards Peter said spoke briefly with your guy Justin have a self-directed IRA I was interested that was a month ago he was going to keep an eye out for a property and haven’t heard back Peter I will follow up with Justin or you can just you know feel free to reach out to Justin as well from our team because we we can set up a whole dashboard for you for the self direction so I’ll make sure that Justin gets back to you Peter I’ll have our team make sure we go through this comment thread to take care of it okay how can you cash out on a $40,000 property well so $40,000 homes are tricky because banks are lazy or appraisers are lazy so a bank is going to hire an appraiser to go in and they’re going to those types of properties they’re being sold every day to investors like I might buy thirty of them right but guess what they’re all off market so they’re not being sold on a multiple listing service like you buy a house for a hundred thousand right with a realtor and so when an appraiser goes to pull comps in order to appraise the property they don’t have any comps to work with the only cops they have are ones that are on the MLS the ones that they end up pulling end up being ones that are like foreclosures or pre rehab so you might have a forty thousand dollar house and you know it’s worth forty forty three forty two but they might appraise it at twenty because the only thing they could find that sold recently on that street was a foreclosure that’s not been rehabbed yet so you can’t you kind of at a crapshoot if you’re planning to do a refinance here’s my suggestion it’s just move up into those sixty sixty-five seventy thousand dollar homes and then you’re putting like you know then you’re able to pull almost like the full equity out of that house or close to it if the bank then cuts you a check for fifty fifty five great then you can roll that into your next property so I just would say told code don’t try to go super cheap if you’re planning on doing a refinance banks are lazy and you’re frankly just at the mercy of these banks you know I can pull up sales disclosures with hundreds of sales where the house is selling for forty three forty five but guess what the appraiser will not look at that and so then you’re at the mercy of like a foreclosure that’s on the Multiple Listing Service and unfortunately it’s it’s just difficult now we’ve had people who’ve done refinances on forty thousand dollar homes and you know like one of our clients recently bought one for forty three it appraised for fifty five but again it’s a crapshoot he could have just as easily had the appraiser come back and say you know well we think that house is worth twenty two so remember what you’re buying is cash flow when you’re buying that low and you’re trying for that high of are a lie you’re you’re sort of like the investor that’s buying 50 properties like that they don’t care about ever refinancing they just want the ROI they want the cash flow I hope that makes sense sure our Lara says I’ve got a shooter I think I missed it sorry zip past it Ahmad it’s kind of invest the United States if I’m not a US citizen yes you can you know just book a call with our team we have people I mean we have a lot of investors Canada and New Zealand all over the world who invest with us do I see Florida getting to California prices within 10 years seeing a lot of new construction and price hikes there in Tampa yeah a lot of those coastal areas you know Tampa those types of places Clearwater Miami of course I don’t see them getting to California craziness you wanted let me tell you a California story the reason it’s ridiculous so like the same house that I might do in Michigan or Indiana and then our clients would buy maybe like a 3-bedroom 1-bath in the $50,000 range right well there was a 3-bedroom 1-bath last week on the market in the bay area for $900,000 and guess what it was condemned it’s a condemned house selling for $900,000 in the bay area that’s California it’s crazy absolutely crazy Mario says I was thinking about buying houses in my name under a HELOC on my primary residence and then when I get to three to five houses to a portfolio loan and all three to five and an LLC is that okay yeah I mean but why would you need to buy them if you’re using a HELOC to buy them just buy them in an LLC now you know there’s no reason you should buy them in your own name at all ever buy them buy them in an LLC if you’re using the HELOC it doesn’t matter how you use the he lock key lock is cash right you could go out and buy a boat if you wanted to with your he lock the bank doesn’t care you’re just writing a check from your he lock so why not buy them in your own name now I’ve started buy them in an LLC today you’re using the he lock on your primary residence it doesn’t matter the bank doesn’t care what you’re doing with that money you just have to pay it back but I to me having a HELOC is one of the killer strategies I love a key lock on my primary residence I use it to buy properties all day long Michele says what are your thoughts on using quicken loans to buy a house I’ve never done it you know hey if you can get good rates and good terms from a bank to buy to buy a house great go for it I don’t see why not video teaching can you recommend a bank for a HELOC on a New Jersey property lakeland la ke Lakeland Bank we love them they’re fantastic smh ninja on the funding Grove fees no notice he you’re refinancing very quickly so you’re gonna refinance very very quickly by that fifty sixty thousand dollar home and then get it into a long-term 30-year note and you pay off the you pay off the zero interest credit cards and then you recycle them so that’s what fund and grow does they recycle and get you more zero percent and then you can just rinse and repeat that’s why it’s a great strategy so you’re not keeping those cards for you know with like you bought a house on a credit card for twenty years you’re refinancing it within that first twelve eighteen months and yes you can quit claim deed you can move a property to an LLC Kevin wants to know thoughts on an umbrella insurance versus LLC well that’s well I say you have both I mean I would definitely have insurance and also have your properties in a limited liability company the reason you have your properties in a limited liability company is so that people will come after you personally that’s the key right you don’t want people if tenant slips and falls because a handrail wasn’t fixed on your one property and this happened to a buddy of mine in Philadelphia he has a property and a girl was drinking one night she came home to the condo she slipped outside because the sidewalk had like this much of a differential and sued him fortunately you know he had insurance but fortunately the case got dismissed or dwindled down where he only had to pay like seventeen thousand can’t come out of pocket seventeen thousand to pay for this girl slipping and falling at his property because he had the property at his own name so don’t put properties in your own name if you don’t need to there’s no reason to forest so to have a bank you recommend for refine 50k rentals I guess it just depends yeah I mean there’s a couple you know State Farm actually the insurance company has a refinance program a national program Northpoint Bank all one word with an e at the end North Point also has a refinance program they’re a national company as well you could look into them Daniel says how do you tell if a property is a B or C class that’s a great question I’ve got a whole video series here on our YouTube channel about how to understand that so you can if you want to look that up right here on the channel it goes more deeply into that but the short answer is an a-class neighborhood I like to avoid an 8 class neighborhood or those two you know two hundred three hundred thousand dollar homes two-car garages maybe they have a swimming pool they’re in the best neighborhoods I stay away from those as an investment property because you’re gonna have the most moving parts that break you’re gonna have the most entitled tenants that cause the biggest headaches and cause you the biggest problems so garage door openers that break garbage disposals that break multiple heating and air systems that break you know avoid those those also have the most volatility those tend to be the areas where those in a big recession lose their job the a-class neighborhoods we saw that across the country right these a class neighborhoods where people lost their jobs and all these houses went into foreclosure and people couldn’t pay their rent or the value plummeted significantly so let’s say they’re renting it from you for $3,000 a month in an a-class neighborhood and everyone loses their job all around that a class neighborhood now the rent is you know you’re gonna have to go down like 20 2022 hundred a month or even 1800 a month we saw that in Manhattan right people renting Manhattan apartments for thirty five hundred bucks a month the recession hits and guess what all these Wall Street people lose their jobs etc and those went down significantly you could rent a place in Manhattan for eighteen hundred a month instead of the 35 that you could before the recession but guess what those C class neighborhoods say the same those C and B class neighborhoods roughly stayed the same it’s consistent cash flow those are the people that tend not to lose their jobs those are the people that are working blue-collar b-class is kind of moving towards an a-class it has better schools slightly lower ROI but I’ve been buying a lot more B class properties lately personally because you know when you get to a point of having find enough cash flow you really want to start thinking about buying those more expensive B class because you’re creating more of a tax shelter for yourself you’re creating that bigger spread that bigger tax shelter and you’re adding to your net worth more significantly so but C and B are my favorites so I’ve been a lot of C and I’m starting to buy a lot more B yeah lisa says that’s why I like condos no outside maintenance but then I don’t like the associations right I do not like HOA fees and I’ve got a whole video on HOAs because HOAs honestly you’re sort of at the mercy of these people I mean you’re literally at the mercy of these people and you never know when they’re going to decide to change the bylaws and make it so that you can’t rent the place or they’re gonna hit you with a big roof assessment you’re gonna have to pay you know $5,000 for a new roof on the property you have no control over that so homeowners associations I’m not a fan of Daniel we don’t we don’t have a number for you to call us because we want to be able to schedule it with you so just go to our website click on the schedule a consultation button you literally answer like eight questions like your first name last name best email address to get a hold of you make sure you type in your phone number correctly and then we just ask you a few quick questions like how many properties do you currently have what are your goals and then you pick on the calendar the time that you want to schedule a call with us it’s very simple so it’s up to you you know that you got the kids from to p.m.

We don’t write so we want you to pick the time that best serves your needs it’ll go on your calendar we’ll send you an email reminder about ten minutes before your call and we’ll jump on the phone with you and talk to you for like thirty minutes Chad boys wants to know how is Capp West you know I heard good things about them years ago but then I think I heard things kind of fell off and I haven’t really actually heard many people using them so I don’t know I’ve never used cap West what if you want to live duplex a class neighborhood your thoughts well Rodney I mean some few if you want to live in the property that’s up to you right because that’s a different animal than investing in a property but if you want to live in a duplex than in a class neighborhood great you buy it I would rent out the other side so that they’re paying your mortgage that’s an investment right that’s an investment property in a class neighborhood so you know go for it you know just a matter of whether if you’re in an a class neighborhood are you likely to have a higher turnover on the rent because people want to have their own single-family home they might not necessarily want to split a house with somebody if they’re in a class neighborhood you know when I was younger I was fine kind of having a shared wall with somebody but now that I’ve got three kids and I’m an adult there’s no way I want to share a wall with somebody else you know I want my own place I want my own yard what do I think about a land trust well it’s funny you mention that as our tax accountant thinks that they are a total mistake so I do not do anything in the land trust sam says I spoke to Glenn a few minutes ago awesome

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Jason 0 Comments August 17, 2022 Retire Wealthy Retirement Planning

How can I replace $70,000 a year in annual income with rental properties that is the subject of today’s video hi everyone I’m Clayton Morris the president of Morris invest let’s dive into it so how do we replace seventy thousand dollars a year in annual income with passive income with rental property income from tenants every month providing cash flow from the properties that we own you might think that that sounds like a tall order but it’s not and I’m going to show you how simple it can be to actually replace that annual income you know a little story about me that’s in fact how I got started I was frustrated sitting down with my wife one night I said we were frustrated with our bills and I said how come at the end of the month where we still have more bills to pay and we don’t have enough paycheck to cover it aren’t we doing well what are we doing wrong the problem was that we weren’t putting the money to work for us to start creating cash flow in our lives and creating passive income so I put together and it was really the foundation of my freedom cheat sheet it’s the number that changed everything for me by the way that link you can download a free pdf it’s like three pages long sit down with your husband or wife and go through it totally free the link is right below this video and it’ll walk you through step by step with some numbers and figures on exactly how to figure out how many houses it will take for you to recover that annual income but I want to tackle the $70,000 question specifically most of the houses that I buy and that my company rehabs and sells are in that forty to forty five thousand dollar range okay single family homes two bedroom one bath three bedroom one bath and some duplexes okay duplexes or you know door on each side typically and two bedrooms on each side or three bedrooms on each side those are the types of properties that I buy now I buy them low and I fix them up and I place a great tenant in the property each of those properties will cashflow about $700 let’s just say for round number $700 okay now think about how much is $70,000 a year how much are you probably making per week well let’s bring out the calculator so $70,000 a year let’s divide that by 52 weeks that’s about thirteen hundred and forty six dollars a week that you are earning from your paycheck okay thirteen hundred and forty six dollars a week so now let’s figure out how many houses it would take us to replace seventy thousand dollars a year in passive income seventy thousand dollars right it’s a simple formula if each of our houses is bringing in seven hundred dollars a month that’s a simple formula right seven hundred times 12 gives us $8,400 okay now let’s take that 70 thousand dollars and let’s divide it by eighty four hundred that’s eight houses that is eight point three properties eight houses bringing in seven hundred dollars a month now imagine if you’re buying a forty thousand dollar house if you had to bring a little bit of money to put down as a down payment or deposit you were able to reach out and get private financing or seller financing on a property then you’re able to accrue these properties very quickly now some of the things I didn’t talk about in this video and I can dive a little deeper now that we always want to take out money for for vacancy and repairs on our numbers right so that eighty four hundred dollars a year let’s multiply that now times point six so we’re gonna remove forty percent for vacancy repairs and expenses this is just to be totally conservative with your numbers so let’s take that eighty four hundred dollars and let’s multiply that times point six so we’re bringing in about five thousand and forty dollars per property per year okay so now let’s take that five thousand and divide it by seventy thousand so this will be a totally conservative number but this will help us really make sure that we’re totally covered should something go wrong maybe we have a vacancy for a few weeks or a month or two in one of our properties this will take in that into account so seventy thousand dollars let’s divide that by five thousand forty that gives us thirteen point eight properties so let’s round that up fourteen properties fourteen properties would bring you about seventy thousand dollars a year in net income that would replace that $70,000 paycheck that you’re making every year then in other videos in this series I’m going to go through exactly how to find properties how to acquire properties but just for the sake of this video I wanted you to start to put your mind in a place where you can begin to reverse engineer that number for a lot of people you don’t think that you’re going to be able to create passive income or bring in that much cash every year hogwash I do it hundreds of thousands of other investors out there do it every day they do it exactly the way that I do it some buy residential properties some buy commercial properties it doesn’t matter it can be done that’s what I do I’m Clayton Morris

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Jason 0 Comments August 15, 2022 Retirement Planning

Hey, welcome back, everyone. TD Ameritrade’s Investor Education Day. My name is Ben Watson. This is our seventh year of providing Investor Education Days on a variety of topics. Our focus today, retirement planning. We’ve got a great presentation coming up really quickly from Barb Armstrong, Planning for the Unexpected. Because you know nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. So speaking of that, unexpectedly, Pat Mulally has just dropped into the studio. Pat, you’ve been listening to Investor Education Day all morning long. Yeah, fantastic. What’s your take so far? Fantastic. The back and forth, the dynamicness– is that a word, dynamicness– anyway, has been really great. What I really thought about that last segment was the systematic drawdowns, right? And those systematic drawdowns, they’re not linear. The closer you get to possible leaving this earth, the faster that money draws down. To your plan expiration. That’s right. So, you know, you hit 90 and then suddenly, the drawdowns start, the velocity of the drawdowns start to speed up. So the decay of your account, that’s a very important thing to think about.

Right. Hey, so along the way, we’ve had a lot of I think kind of interesting mindset shift ideas. Right? The idea that, hey, we get very focused on planning for, and planning for, and planning for retirement. Right. But we don’t necessarily always think about what it means to now start to spend that down. Exactly. We’ve been very comfortable with knowing what’s in our retirement account and feeling good about that. It’s a good friend. You open up your account. There’s a total amount. Look at it. Oh, isn’t it nice? It’s growing. It’s growing. And then you start to spend it down and that maybe creates panic for some people. And so I think that’s one of the things that Christine and Matt did a phenomenal job of expressing and talking about some of those challenges. Now, one thing I want to remind everybody, Pat, is that these presentations are being recorded. Right. They are archived. They will be available at a later date for everyone to review and watch. We’ve got lots of great stuff coming up still.

As a matter of fact, Barb Armstrong is here in the studio milling about getting ready to go. We’re going to be ready to go in about one minute or so with Barb Armstrong. Any last words, Pat, before we get started with Barb? Time segmentation buckets. Yeah. Be aggressive– be conservative on the first bucket, aggressive on the last few. And grow the accounts as you go along. It’s a wonderful thing. That’s awesome. People never think about that. Fantastic stuff. OK, great stuff. Now, you’re going to be listening to the rest of Education Day. We’re going to bring you back in for a little bit more color commentary.

But as we get ready to roll here, Barb Armstrong walking into the studio. She is up and ready to go. We’re going to be talking about planning for the unexpected. The things you don’t recognize might be over the horizon, you walk down the street and who knows? You know, a piano could hit you on the head, right? So let’s get ready to start here with our next presentation in TD Ameritrade’s Investor Education Day starting right now. Welcome back to TD Ameritrade’s Investor Education Day. My name is Ben Watson. And I’ll be your host all day long, keeping things going with our retirement discussion today in our seventh year of Investor Education Days here at TD Ameritrade.

I am joined in studio by Barb Armstrong, one of our education coaches here at TD Ameritrade. We’ll meet Barb in just a moment. But we are going to jump on in here really quick. Planning for the unexpected. And as we talk about this today, a couple of things to keep in mind. Remember, this presentation is for educational purposes only. It is not a recommendation or an endorsement of any particular investment or investment strategy. Remember that past performance does not guarantee or indicate future success. Discussion of returns are purely hypothetical. They may not include the impact of commissions and fees. Keep those in mind. Remember that returns will vary. And all investments involve risk, including the loss of principle. TD Ameritrade does not make recommendations or determine the suitability or strategy of any security for individual traders. Any investment decision you make in your self-directed account, solely your responsibility.

Remember of course also that this is a copyrighted broadcast. So no part of this presentation may be copied, recorded, or rebroadcast in any form without the prior written consent of TD Ameritrade. And let me introduce you to my friend and fellow education coach, Barb Armstrong, who is a very knowledgeable investor and coach. She is passionate about introducing clients to the world of investing. Teaches a number of our educational webcasts throughout the week. Barb, it is all yours here at TD Ameritrade’s Investor Education Day. All right, thank you so much. It has been awesome to be listening in this morning to all the great information being shared. I am really excited to be part of this. I joined TD Ameritrade as a client– actually, TD Bank back when I lived in Toronto– at the age of about 18.

And I’ve been a fan of all things Toronto dominion oriented ever since. So thank you for joining me today. We have a lot of information to cover. And it’s great to see the passion with which everybody is approaching this, lots of great stuff. I get the honor of talking about expecting the unexpected. And, you know, although one can think that that may not be a very sexy thing to have to spend time on, you’ll be really grateful that you did, if one of these events happens to come your way, whether it is the to your income, whether it’s an unexpected expense risk, long term care risk, which we’ve already talked about this morning, health care risk. Risk to your market returns and timing can be so critical with respect to market returns, and inflation risk. So we’re going to spend a few minutes talking about each of these things.

With respect to unexpected early retirement, we really have two buckets we can look at. One is the happy bucket, where people are leaving the workforce early. And about half of retirees end up leaving the workforce earlier than they had planned. And 24% of the time that’s because they were really diligent in their planning. And they felt they were able to be able to afford to retire early. And then you’ve got about 10% who wanted to take on something else. So they’ve retired to move on into this next inning, if you will. Unfortunately, we’ve got about 40% of the people who end up leaving because of health issues or disability, which all of a sudden makes disability insurance look more appealing when we look at these kinds of numbers potentially.

There’s a lot that are also job related. It could be a job loss due to downsizing or a company closing. It could be the need to care for a spouse or a parent or another family member. You know, I know someone whose son was just in a really critical accident. And she has spent most of the last three months living in a hospital. And that certainly wasn’t something that any of them had planned for. There can be other work related reasons also. Maybe your business is being moved to Chicago or Baltimore.

But you really like living in Texas or Oklahoma or wherever you happen to be. And you don’t want to make that move. So all of a sudden, you find yourself in transition. And then there’s that need to keep updating skills. And sometimes that thing that you have expertise in a company may just no longer require. So we need to take that into account. And we’ll talk in a few minutes but how we might plan for that. We talked earlier in the day with Christine and Matt about the shock of unexpected expenses. And it’s really interesting because major home repairs, like a tree falling on your house as Christine mentioned earlier in the day, or upgrades that you want to make now that all of a sudden, you’re not working and you may be spending more time at home, those things that you didn’t notice so much all of a sudden these are projects that you want to tackle.

So 28% of people were looking at major home repairs and upgrades. 24%– this one surprised me– major dental expenses. And Pat Mullaly said like, isn’t that what blenders are for? But hey, if you don’t want to be living on food that’s come out of a blender and these expenses come up, you know, you need to have the money to take care of them. Out-of-pocket medical and prescription expenses can be higher than anticipated. And then there’s long term care insurance. And we’re going to talk more specifically about that. But that’s come up already a lot this morning. Divorce is another thing that is just part of the reality of the world that we live in today. About 50% of marriages end in divorce. So if you spent many, many years creating this giant heap and then you end up with half a heap, that can impact your planning.

And providing major support to children, to grown children, either having them move back in or need support in an unexpected way, these are just some of the things that can come our way as we enter retirement or while we’re enjoying retirement that can put a dent in one of the buckets that we take care of. You know, and one in five retirees said that they not only encountered one of these types of shocks, they encountered four or more. So many of us plan, you know, or there are some at least that plan to retire. And, you know, they think that business is going to go along, life is going to go along as usual. And then these things come up. And it really knocks the wind out of our sails. When we look at long term care risk, it’s interesting. A study done by the Society of Actuaries found that most people are concerned about long term care. But they haven’t either set aside money for it, nor have they purchased long term care insurance. And if you are a woman who is 65 years of age today, your chances are two out of three that you could require long term support, long term care support during your lifetime.

And 20% of those who need it, may need it for five years or longer. So that’s not an insignificant blip, if one hasn’t planned for that. Because the average number of years that long term care is needed, if it’s needed at all, is years for women and just over two years for men. So when you get out there into the marketplace and you look at costs, your average monthly costs for semi-private nursing home care is over $7,000 a month. That’s $88,000 a year. And if you’re in an assisted living facility, in a one bedroom type place, you’re looking at over $3,500, $3,800 actually. So that’s upwards of $50,000 a year. And so when you look at this and think, how do I plan for this? I noticed in the chat earlier, someone had said that their long term care insurance ranged somewhere between $4,000 and $7,000 a month. And depending on when you look at that– and this isn’t a product I believe that TD Ameritrade provides– but you might want to consider self-insuring and look at bucket number four or bucket number five as perhaps providing the income if it’s needed for that.

So and I can’t speak to this. I’m seeing questions come up on the chat on long term care insurance. I’m not licensed for insurance. And I’m certainly not a specialist in this arena. But when it comes to planning– and I love the approach they talked about earlier, Christina and Matt with the five buckets– if you could say with bucket four and five, maybe we ought to plan for this and take a look at some of the numbers and what things may cost.

And if you’re going to self insure say, OK, well, if I’m planning on for years at potentially this kind of money, what type of income do I want to have in bucket number four? So anyway, that’s just a thought on that one. When we take a look at returner market risk– and one of the things that we were cautioned about earlier is not to overreact. And one of the ways that we can feel more secure and be less likely to overreact is if we have that emergency fund set aside. And I think that Matt mentioned six to 12 months of living expenses. But timing is so important. If you were looking to retire in 2010 for example, you may have been hyperventilating after going through 2008 and ’09, which was particularly devastating in the marketplace. And you may have considered extending out your last day of work because of that. Where if you’re looking at it now at the end of a 10 year recovery after the devastation of 2008 and 2009, you may look at things differently.

So when we take a look at this, if you’re currently trending and you’re ahead of the game, you may want to consider, just consider, decreasing your risk. So that if we see another major pullback in the market, the wallop is less painful. Or at least put systems in place to manage your risk. And if you’ve experienced periods of underperformance, you might want to consider altering your plan. Inflation is one of those things, where particularly right now we’re looking at inflation rates that aren’t super high, we still have to consider the fact that– you know, I know people who are older than I am that paid more for their last car than they paid for the home that they’re living in.

The average home in 2000 cost about $167,000. Today it’s more than double that. When we look at car expenses– and I noticed somebody had put into the chat that car expenses can be a real expense that sometimes people don’t plan for. Well, if you’re planning on driving, you need to take into account that you want to have a serviceable vehicle. It doesn’t have to be the latest Mercedes or the latest big Suburban perhaps.

But it’s got to be something that’s going to get you where you want to go and in the style that you want to get there. So when we take a look at hospital costs too, I mean, again, from 2000 to today, those numbers have pretty much doubled as well. So it is still a real part of our futures. So the good news after all of that sobering information is that the targets you set for retirement are up to you. And the question I ask is, do you have a target? And a target for the amount of assets that you want to have going into retirement, do you have a target date? And where are you today in relation to that? One of the questions that has come up many times in the chat today is, how do I find this information that we have been referencing throughout the morning? And so I’m bringing up the TD Ameritrade website here. And we just signed into a demo account. And we’ve clicked on this tab called Planning and Retirement. And you can click on the Overview.

Or you can pick whichever segment is the most appropriate for you. But you’ll see that we have a couple of things here. One is the income planning worksheet that Matt had brought up images of earlier. And I mean, if you’re going to meet with somebody at TD Ameritrade, which is certainly something that you have the opportunity to do at your local branch, and they don’t charge you for that first visit to help you figure some of these things out. You can put things into buckets and like he said, essential and discretionary. And this is estimating your retirement living expenses. I know for some people what they do is they’ll use this as a template to make a note of what they’re spending now. So that they can better estimate their living expenses going into retirement. And then you can also fill this out and have a look at where are you now with respect to quote unquote your giant heap.

So going back, we can also then click on this retirement calculator. And we certainly don’t have time to walk through that today. But you can do several scenarios with this. You can go through with your current numbers. You can put information like, are you planning on downsizing your home? And how much money will you be adding to your nest egg when you do that? Are you getting an inheritance? Are you planning on working to 65? But in hearing that some people end up leaving the workforce earlier, maybe you want to run your numbers planning on retiring at 60 and see if you’re still going to be OK.

So you can put in all kinds of great information. And you can run this as many times as you like. You can run it as a single person, a married person. You can be 30. You can be 59, male or female. And it brings up average life expectancy rates and all of that also. So I just wanted to share that with you. So that you know where you can go get that. Also, since I’m here, I’d like to spend just a minute on the Education tab. Like if we come to Overview, you can access a course. And so let’s do that. It will bring up a recommended learning path for you. And so you can decide do you want to build a nest egg for retirement? So you can click on that. And if you do, it’ll bring up all kinds of information that you can tap into. So there’s a new course that we have just debuted called Simple Steps for a Retirement Portfolio.

There’s a webcast half an hour every week, Building Blocks for a Self-directed Portfolio. There’s another webcast on managing a self-directed portfolio. There’s one on investment fundamentals. If we come back up to the Education tab and we click on Webcasts, you’ll see that you have access to over 45 webcasts a week. I saw in the chat somebody saying, I really like REITs, or real estate investment trusts. There’s a class every Tuesday at Mountain, Eastern that we talk about REITs and bond ETFs. Someone else mentioned different option strategies that they like to use. So if we take a look at the webcast calendar, you can see that you’ve got all kinds of choices. There’s a Getting Started with Options.

So if you’re thinking options are scary and it’s something that you really are unfamiliar with, you may want to start here. We cover 10 or 11 different strategies. And then you can pick just one that you think resonates with what your goals are. If you’re already a seasoned investor, there’s lots of stuff you can tap into. And I know that many people in the chat today participating in the retirement day already do that. So lots of education here for you to tap into. I’m getting a little bit ahead of myself. Because that’s one of the things that I’m recommending, is that you continue to invest in yourself. So anyway, where are you relative to today? And then what kinds of things might you want to adjust? And when you’re going through without retirement calculator, you can adjust all kinds of things and see what kind of impact that will have on your potential long term success.

You may also want to make an appointment with somebody at a local TD Ameritrade branch, or if you’re working with someone already, make sure you have a strategy that one, you understand and that– OK– that one, you understand and that you have an investment plan to make sure that you are on target. Plan on enjoying three decades of retirement. I love the smile analogy that they came up with today. Because although a lot of people think that once they retire that they’ll spend less, the reality is that 50% of us when we hit retirement actually spend more. And that makes sense. I mean, we finally have time to do all the things we wanted to do. So we want to travel and we want to do that project around the house and all of those things. And then you kind of settle into a period where you’re spending less. And then as we hit the end of that last trimester, so to speak, we can end up with– I’m trying to read the chat here as I go, so that I can answer questions, and I’m sorry I’m getting a little distracted– and the .

Matthew Canadian so that’s part of my Canadian accent. So I’m sorry if that’s distracting for you. In any event, as we get into that last trimester, those last buckets, if we choose to go with that bucket approach, can help us in those years where health care may play a more predominant role in our spending. So our plan should include protections, protections against those things that we weren’t expecting, but hopefully we now can be prepared for. What if we have to end our career earlier than anticipated? What if there’s something in our family dynamic that causes us to have to either leave the workforce to care for an older parent or help fund that? Do we have plans in place for both ourselves and our spouse, if that’s appropriate? You may want to consider evaluating whether disability or long term care is appropriate in your situation. I’ve seen lots in the chat today also– and I love this– take care of your health. Your future self will thank you. Mark has just typed it in again, health is the new wealth. I have a friend whose tagline is if you don’t take care of your body, where will you live? And I think investing in getting out of bed earlier, as I did this morning to hit the gym before I came in, going for that walk around the block, all of those things will make that 30 years that hopefully you will get to experience in retirement that much more fun.

Because you’ll be able to put on your list the traveling that you want to do in the way that you want to do it, or the skiing, or the hiking. Can you tell the things I like to do? The skiing, and the hiking, and the biking and all of that. So an investment in that today may seem small, but it can pay off big time down the road. I applaud each and every one of you for being here today and for continuing to invest time in becoming more knowledgeable about investing in the markets. Consider working with a financial investor and plan for the worst and hope for the best. So– Wow, Barb, great stuff.

Well, thank you. Yeah, I mean, I think that’s one of those things. And really quickly, great job addressing some of the questions in the chat. And thank you for showing the education page, where people can go for more information, which is phenomenal. And again, coming up really quickly here we’ve got Michael Fairborn talking about rising interest rates. But I think you did a great job of tying back to what Matt and Christine were talking about this morning in their deeper dives. Right. You know, what to do as your life span maybe is longer, the length of time that you have in retirement is maybe a little bit longer than you were planning for. Or maybe expecting as things, you know, medical science continues to advance and things happen that we may end up living longer than we expect that we might. Right. And we want to make sure we have the resources to enjoy it. Absolutely. Well, thanks again, Barb Armstrong. You’re very welcome. And again, we’ll look forward to seeing you in the webcasts and maybe on Education Day again going forward. So thanks again, Barb, appreciate it. Awesome. Enjoy the day.

All right. Hey, guys, stick around. We’re going to be right back in just about five minutes or so with Michael Fairborn talking about what to make of rising interest rates. Coming up next on TD Ameritrade’s Investor Education Day. Again, really quickly, the reminder that any investment decision you make in your self-directed account is solely your responsibility. So stick around. Don’t go anywhere. We will be here all day long with TD Ameritrade’s Investor Education Day. Oh, hey, look who’s coming back into the studio. It’s Pat Mullaly. Hey. Pat, what did you think of Barb’s presentation? It was a lot of great stuff. And it hit home very closely to me.

And you know this better than anybody. You know, I was in great shape, went to Italy for a yoga retreat. Did I say yoga retreat? I was going with my wife. Yeah. That’s right. She was going to the yoga retreat. You were eating pasta. I know that. I got some kind of a virus that went into my spine. And you know for a year it took a long time. Antibiotics four hours a day That can hit. Unexpected things can happen. Absolutely they can. And so it’s important to keep that in mind. Hey now, coming up next, we’ve got Michael Fairborn talking about rising interest rates. And I think this is going to be an interesting discussion. Because we have so long been accustomed to thinking about interest rates only going in one direction. And that is up. We’ve been thinking about a rising interest rate environment. One of the other things that we might bring into this discussion is well– and I think Michael Fairborn will talk about this– is the idea that what do we do if interest rates stay the same or in fact even drop over the period of time that we’re looking at in our investment account.

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Jason 0 Comments August 4, 2022 Fashion for Seniors Health for the Retired

Hi it’s Brett Lee here And today i’m going to tell you or try to tell you everything that I eat during the day and what my fitness plan is Coffee Coffee to me is very important in the morning because we generally work late nights But now I try to have a balanced diet. I don’t do Dieting I don’t do any sort of fed different diets that you see around the world I just I’ve tried a balanced diet and what I mean by that is, you know meat and vegetables and Just heaps of fruit try to keep things nice and balanced but I reckon with with eating too Hydration is the key. You know if you can stay well hydrated these Hunger cravings can can can go away because you yeah, you are hydrated. Yes I had a masala dosa which was a lot of fun, but normally just eggs whether it’s an omelette, maybe some fruit salad And you know once again coffee because coffee is very important in morning for lunch and dinner.

It could be a salad with some chicken You know could be some lamb and then I I do eat a lot of curries back in Australia But I also love a lot of Western food. I love Japanese food You know, I love Thai food. So I’m pretty multi-culture when it comes to different foods We do a lot of barbecues back in Australia where we put some lamb on the barbeque and some chicken So yeah, look it changes everyday But also fish I enjoy eating fish if you ask my wife she would say that so I’m definitely not an early riser Because we work as I mentioned, you know different hours to most people we might be You know on television until midnight one o’clock each each day when we are working So yeah, I probably get up.

You know, it’s to me whatever time you go to bed you need 8 hours sleep and that’s gotta live my life on because sleep is the most important thing obviously to keep Keep a balanced life also to keep your weight at a balanced level sleep is very very important Well, oral hygiene if you ask my friends, they reckon I am What would they say that they’d say that my oral hygiene is a hundred over 100 because I floss probably five times a day Brush my teeth at least three times a day and you know making sure that you see the right people We’re down here today at dents, which is a wonderful place. I’ve just discovered the hygiene. The cleanliness is first-class world-class Definitely come back here again a favorite meal of the day. I think it’s probably dinner because that’s when as a family, you know us For unuse we obviously eat ate our meals a lot earlier than the traditional Indian culture So we will provide dinner in about 6 o’clock latest when I’m back in Australia and us it’s a really good chance Where we all come together as a family and share a beautiful meal probably would have to be Japanese food Yeah, it’s you know with whether it’s sushi sashimi.

I love all the fresh produce and the fresh fish And and also some salad too the healthiest alcoholic drink that’s probably oxymoron probably doesn’t even exist If you are gonna have a spirit have it with water thanda pani with it are there’s there’s there’s all these different diets going around But what happens with with diets in some people is that they you know, they will lose weight So they’ll go purely on a full fat diet They might go purely on a vegetarian diet And what actually happens is that? When they go on a fad or they go through this diet and they might last for six weeks or six months as soon as they go off it, you know, they put all the weight back on so consistency Keeping a balanced diet a balanced lifestyle. We all know that abs are made in the kitchen 80 percent of You know weight loss is definitely made for the kitchen and if you can substitute that with it with a nice You know training each day 45 minutes of training is all that you need You do that you tick that box and you should have a healthy life.

Oh, there are few fit guys in the world Kol is obviously a guy that looks after himself and he’s very fit You know if you think about the AVI play someone like a Mitchell stark He’s got a beautiful rap. You know, you don’t have to be the next cricketer You don’t have to be the next Bollywood star as long as you’re looking after your body and you’re comfortable in your own skin That’s the most important thing well I try to pride myself on being the fittest and we used to have competitions among the team who was the fittest But I think fast bowlers are definitely the fittest of all athletes.

I think throughout the world They’re smile. Anyone that’s on the Bollywood screen. I’ve got a good smile I mentioned a few before the Shah Rukh Khan Preity Zinta two friends of mine that that owned Kings XI and KKR so probably go this day just to keep things consistent and if you if you tick off Something every single day in order to to make you feel good So in other words get up in the morning achieve something whether it’s making your bed Whether it’s getting up taking out the rubbish Whether you go to the gym in the morning If you start the day knowing that you’ve actually achieved something so I like to get up feel fresh plenty of water You know making sure you’re drinking three to five liters of water a day. So that’s definitely the key Hi, this is Brett Lee.

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How To Invest Money In Your 20’s

Jason 0 Comments August 2, 2022 Retirement Planning Tips for Retiree's

Hey, what’s up guys? Kris Krohn here. Yes, it is winter. Yes i’m driving with the top down. It is one of my favorites. I am totally impervious to the cold. But today I want to jam with you in real estate and I want to talk about why 90% of all millionaires make it in real estate. And there’s very, very specific reasons why. and so what I want to do is break it down for you. I really want to give it to you in in like the deeper science than I have in the past. And I think you’re really going to appreciate it. So, check it out. I’m up here at my mountain home. It is snowy, it’s cold. But a super exciting day. You know, as I’ve started this YouTube channel, I’ve been really honing in. What is the information that would create the highest level of value for you? And today, I want to give it to you in one straight shot. How you invest in your 20s, so that when you’re in your 30s, not your 40s, not your 50s, not your 60s. You can really living be living life on your terms.

To me, it doesn’t matter whether you have money, whether you don’t have money. You have good credit, you have bad credit. Frankly, it really doesn’t make much of an impact at all to me. So, here’s what I want to help you understand. There’s a number of strategies when it comes to the world of real estate investing. In fact, there’s 32 main strategies out there. The first thing I need you to understand is that most strategies, they’re not good. You shouldn’t do… There’s tax deedsm there’s flips, there’s a lot of things that are popular.

There’s multifamily. There’s rentals. And I don’t do those things and I don’t think you should do those things. I think you should do what makes the most money that takes the least time in the least effort and has the least risk. Because dude, no one likes to start over, no one likes to lose and when you invest, there is some risk. The reason why I retired at the age of 26 is because I followed a very specific formula. And I want to detail it out very specific for you because there are 3 things that you do need to know about making money in the game of real estate. And if you follow these 3 things it’s gonna be a total game changer for you.

So, let’s head over to the whiteboard and I want to document this for you. Because I want you understand that when you get in the game of real estate, you want each property to be a win. When I found out that you could make 50 to 100 thousand dollars per deal, I got to tell you. That was something that was super exciting for me. Because I realized if I want to make a million dollars, then I just need to be able to count to 10, right? I got 10 finger. So, so much easier than some of the other ways and methodologies are out there. And so I want to ask you how many deals do you need to do before you’d say, “Wow, I’ve made it. I’ve arrived.” And with what I’m about to show you.

I don’t want you to be thinking in terms of like, you know, “I want to be a millionaire so I need a million dollars. I need to do 10 deals.” it’s actually a lot simpler. You don’t need a certain amount of money. What you need is a certain amount of properties producing a certain amount of residual income. You’re not striving for a certain net worth. You’re striving for your real estate to perform in a manner to give you enough residual income that you don’t need to work.

When I say I retired at 26, truth is I didn’t really retire I just became financially independent. And I quit my job and I got to live life on my terms. And it’s because of what I’m about to show you. There are 3 things in particular that you need to be aware of. Every time you do a deal in your backyard and it doesn’t have to take money. Some of these deals take nothing or maybe 1,000 or 3,000 dollars.

Very little. And the first thing that I want you to know is that you should be making around $5,000. just for consummating the deal as in finding $5,000 is what you get paid up. Now, up front is really important because who wants to be in the game of real estate and say, “Hey, I’ll work today but I want to get paid in years.” You need to get paid now. The second thing that’s important is that when I buy single-family homes, I buy them underneath the median. I buy them with my specific system. Which by the way it’s in a book that you can get for free. You can download it. If you click the link or the one that’s popping up on the screen right now, you can get my book for free that will go into deep detail on this. What I want you understand is that you get paid 5 grand up front and then you’re getting 500 on average freedom dollars every single month.

Now, this $500 is really important because if you buy 10 homes and those 10 homes are each paying you 500 a month. 500 a month times 10, that’s $5,000. You might not be able to retire on $5,000. But guess what you can do? You can walk away from a job that’s paying less. And if you figured that out, dude then why not do 20 more why not do 100. Especially when I show you how you don’t need to access your own money to make this happen. The third thing though that you do need to understand is while there is upfront money, this money is along the way.

You just keep on getting it. There’s another kind of money that you get when you sell this home in 2 3, 4 or 5 years. And it’s tens of thousands of dollars. If you’re buying it buildings the median, I’m guessing for all intents and purposes. And I use this as an example sometimes. $30,000. It could be 50,000, it could be 80,000. It could be 20,000. But probably not less. And if you start adding the upfront money, the $6,000 on average that you’re getting every year and this money, you start making 50 to $100,000 on every deal that you do. And my friend, that’s that’s the part of this whole game that I want you to have an understanding for. Is that if you’re getting paid upfront along the way and at the end, then the cool thing is…

And here’s the secret: You can multiply this. You do 2 or 3 or 4 of these deals. And it’s… So your ROI, your return investment is so high that you’re going to start attracting a very special kind of people. These people are called partners. And a partner is an individual that says, “Hey, I’m into my career. But I’ve been saving up some money. I don’t want to learn what you’ve learned. Can we go in 50/50?” And this is when you hit the big time and this is when you can do. Right now, I can do as much real estate as I want. I have a goal of becoming a billionaire. I want to be a billionaire philanthropist the second half of my life. And right now, I’ve got assets growing like crazy.

But I followed the system to get started to recreate my financial independence. And then my partnering system which you’ll also learn about in the book is what has taken me from independence to true financial freedom. Did you know there’s a difference between those 2? Financial independence just means you got out of your job and you’ve replaced it. But financial freedom means that you’re now living the lifestyle that you want. So, living where you want, donating the way that you want, giving to charities the way you want. You know, being able to take the travel and the trips and vacations. It’s a very real byproduct of all the real estate investing that we’re talking about here. So, what I want to do right now is I want to share with you how you can get my book for free. I want to share with you what’s in it and first of all, it’s called Unstoppable.

It’s a brand new book. And it’s different than any my others. Because I took out all the fluff and I Shrunk it really small. I just can grab a drink here by my absolute favorite drink. If you ever come visit me, just bring me a six-pack of apple beer. It’s not beer but I got to tell you it’s really tasty and I know the carbonation is not good for me but… So.. So, here’s the deal on the book. It’s called Unstoppable. And what it does is it documents your custom journey to get a particular realistic game plan to go from nothing to millions.

And here’s what I want you to understand about that: Whether you are… Whether you would say you’re too young or too old, whether you would say I don’t have enough money or I don’t have any money, dude that doesn’t matter. In my matrix of the book, I actually show how all those combinations of people can get in the game of real estate. And dude, it if you come out to my live events which you very well might, you’re going to meet all sorts of people, successful investors that are out there crushing it and doing it.

Right now, the book is free. We’re going to do that for a period. All you got to do is click the link below, get your hands on a copy of the book. And it’ll even come with a consultation if you want. You can talk to remember my team and basically say, “Okay. I’m reading this book. I’m getting my custom game plan. I’m figuring out my next steps.” And having a member of my team contacting you it’s just to make sure you understand the book in its principles. And if you get stuck then we want to finish customizing the process so that you’re completely clear on exact steps you need to do to make your next million or your first million in real estate.

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