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Radical Personal Finance

490: Q&A: Paying for a Seminary Degree with Early Distributions, Can I Still Become FI if We Move to Paradise First, Sell Our Rental House or Move Back for Tax-Free Gains, Healthcare Sharing Ministries

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Self-improvement, Business, Education, Investing

4.21.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

I've been doing a live Q&A series...today we cover these:

  • 1:24 - Can I Pay for My Seminary Degree with Early Distributions from a Retirement Account?
  • 13:30 - Can I Still Become Financially Independent if We Move to Paradise First?
  • 25:45 - Should We Sell our Rental House Two States Away or Plan to Move Back to It In Order to Get the Tax-Free Gains on a Future Sale?
  • 37:45 - Are Healthcare Sharing Ministries Like Samaritan Ministries Any Good?

Joshua

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today in Radical Personal Finance, The Show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills,

0:23.6

insight and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now while building a plan

0:28.0

for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

0:29.6

My name is Joshua and I am your host, your guide and your fellow traveler on this journey towards financial independence.

0:36.0

Today we do live Q&A. I've got a conference line opened up, a couple of collars sitting on the line.

0:41.0

We'll go and have some questions and have some chats about

0:43.6

financial independence. I enjoy doing these shows because it gives me a chance to talk to you and allows it to be very practical.

0:56.0

One of the challenges of being a podcast toast, it's easy for me to sit in my office and come up with things that seem relevant to me, but sometimes without that live interaction

1:06.1

with you, it's often hard for me to be sure that the comments are very, that what I have to share with you is going to be really

1:13.6

really relevant. So we've got a few collars on the line and we'll have steel

1:16.4

with some real life situations so let's start with Matt in Tampa. Welcome to

1:20.4

Radical Personal Finance. How can I serve you today, please?

1:22.8

All right, thanks Joshua.

1:25.0

Thanks for taking my call.

1:27.4

So my wife and I in about two years plan on me going to seminary and will be moving.

1:35.0

And my hope is that I've accumulated enough cash, as well as some assets and different

1:40.4

retirement accounts, that when I'm at seminary I'll be able to

1:44.4

primarily focus on my studies and my family and and perhaps only work part-time

1:50.1

if necessary.

1:52.6

So I guess my main question was to get some your thoughts

1:56.2

about how I can tax efficiently get distributions

2:01.3

out of these retirement accounts and specifically how to utilize a backdoor

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