537: How I Plan to Retire at 30 - Part 2 by FI Fighter with Budgets Are Sexy

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🗓️ 20 March 2018

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FI Fighter guest posts on BudgetsAreSexy with a plan to retire at 30. This is Part 2 of 2. Episode 537: How I Plan to Retire at 30 - Part 2 by FI Fighter with Budgets Are Sexy (Retirement & Retired Young). J. Money is a 6’1, hyperactive, rock a ‘hawk who loves drinking beer, blaring hip-hop, talking about money, and now playing with his two adorable baby boys. He tracked his expenses for 3 months, made a budget, read some books, and stumbled into personal finance blogging and idea sharing, randomly turning BudgetsAreSexy.com into his full time “real job” a few short years later--14 million views later! The original post is located here: http://www.budgetsaresexy.com/how-plan-to-retire-early-30 Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com & in The O.L.D. Podcasts Facebook Group! and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.8	This is optimal finance, episode 537,
0:33.6	How I Plan to Retire at 30, part 2, by FI fighter
0:37.4	with Budgets are Sexy.com.
0:39.6	And I'm your narrator Dan here each weekday reading to you
0:42.2	from some of the best personal
0:43.4	finance blogs on the planet and my post today is a continuation from
0:47.3	yesterday so if you're new to our podcast or if you're skipping around and
0:50.9	sampling a bunch of different episodes, I would definitely
0:53.2	recommend listening to Yesterday's show first. But if you're all caught up, let's hear part
0:57.4	two and continue optimizing your life. How I plan to retire at 30, by FI Fighter with Budgets are sexy.
1:10.0	Breaking it all down. My original thinking was that early F.I. would be about a 10-year plan.
1:17.0	Initially, I thought I would get there primarily through the use of dividend investing and real estate investing.
1:22.0	As mentioned earlier, I was able to win two rental properties in the Bay Area in 2012.
1:26.4	By no means was I trying to time the market or anything?
1:29.3	But now that hindsight is 2020, I can clearly see that I was fortunate to be able to win near the bottom of the Great Recession.
1:35.0	Even more potent was the fact that I invested in an extremely volatile housing market,
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