Welcome to the bigger pockets money podcast show number 280 finance Friday edition where we interview Jeff and talk about real estate investing a few years ago

I stumbled upon I don't know where on the internet, but fire so I would like to eventually retire early

And I know before that you need to get financially independent first so right now the first steps

I guess we're looking for zone of becoming financially independent not sure exactly if we should do it through

stocks necessarily I mean we've been dabbling in this house hacking in terms of China see what it's like to be a landlord

And so far it's been pretty good. I mean we think we've just been blessed with a really great tenant

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He is unsure about his investment strategy, but what we discover is that he's actually doing pretty good. He is being conscious of his spending

He is not just spending whatever he wants. I think they track their spending and they're doing

Continuous contributions to their 401k's and being very cognizant about their money

Which honestly is going to be one of the best things you can do is just be money conscious

Yeah, and the fundamentals are all set up. He's got no debt

He's you know there they're they're accumulating a healthy amount of cash each year and it's where do I deploy it real estate stock something else and

You know that the I think where there's a lean towards real estate and the implications that are

I think I think really fun to discuss and I think we had a great discussion and hopefully gave him some things to do along today

He's got several research opportunities and lucky for him

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