My Journey

Welcome to My Journey! Here is where you’ll find my story of how I transitioned from a corporate tool to a badass that retired at 50 years old and said “F That Treadmill”! This happened despite being laid-off at 34 years old with a negative net worth and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, all while planning for a wedding and expecting my first child. It would have happened sooner if not for a relapse, but that’s okay. It strengthened my resolve and brought me here.

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Break on Through

COVID-19 had flipped most everyone’s lives upside-down in March 2020, but not so much mine. I almost… almost, felt a…

The Final Stretch

Having sold both of our former homes, one that had served as a nice cash-flow vehicle but resulted in no…

Back at the Homestead(s)

After gutting our former rental following the destruction brought forth by our tenants (and soaking in bleach for about a…

Renters (can) Be Shady

As the holidays came and went, we were still anxiously waiting for our deadbeat tenants to move out. Although they…

You Have How Many Houses?

Something I learned from Robert Kiyosaki of “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” fame is that his secret to getting rich was…

The Sprint to Retirement

With my employer’s local office closing and my new commuting requirements, any thoughts of living in the corporate world longer…

The Corporate Dream Goes Down in Flames

So that happened… for the second time I got sucked into the corporate world and the American Dream. I was…

Oops, I did it Again!

As we were living the American dream in 2012 and I was starting to dig a hole in the corporate…

Living the American Dream

As our nightmare of a renovation transitioned into a nice home that we could be proud of (as least as…

Living the Renovation

While our tenants were moving into our previous home, a 4 year old, 2100 square foot, beautiful new-ish colonial, we…

Welcome to Home Renovation

It’s Spring of 2009 and we just closed on our fixer-upper, only 2 miles from my work. Since we had…

Finding Our Fixer-Upper

In the Summer of 2008, we planned to turn our first house, a still fairly new 4-year old, from a…

To Sell or Not to Sell

Oh, the agony (tongue in cheek)! Most folks that take the path of building a new house envision it becoming…

Time For Change

To recap: we’re drowning in hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt, have negative equity to show for all our…

My Financial Education Begins

I was married on November 19, 2005, and with a baby on the way, thankfully had a new job starting…

Now What?!?

That was a sucker punch and a half. I banked a 5-week severance package plus one week of earned vacation…

A New Beginning

There are many experiences that lead to a tremendous change in one’s life. A few standouts in mine have been:…

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