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Radical Personal Finance

567-Accidental Retirees (pt 2 of 2): Small Businesses that Allow Full-Time Travel and Internet Connectivity on the Road

Radical Personal Finance

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

Self-improvement, Business, Education, Investing

4.21.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In Part 1 of this interview (Episode 566), you met Scott & Susan, a couple who accidentally retired in their 30s and has spent the last two decades traveling the world in a sailboat and the US in a motorhome.

In today's episode, we discuss Scott's small business, Techie 4 Hire. If you have any interest in developing a location-independent business, pay attention to Scott's story of his own business. Also pay attention to some of the other types of businesses mentioned in this interview.

Finally, we discuss a bit of the technology of mobile internet connectivity. For many of us, our ability to reliably connect to the internet from the road can open up a location-independent lifestyle.

Enjoy!

Joshua

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'd like to pivot now to talking about some of the nuts and bolts of technology because you're a real expert in that and I think that'll be of help and interest to my audience and to me personally.

0:11.0

It also, it's a fascinating world in which we live. My audience is

0:16.1

hearing our voices right now through a technology that's been developed 15 years ago, but really today and it's really come into its own in the last five years ever since the iPhone started automatic airless,

0:31.6

wireless downloading a podcast.

0:34.0

That's where this world has come into being.

0:36.7

I know you're not, you don't identify,

0:38.6

you don't listen to a lot of podcasts,

0:39.8

you don't read a lot of blogs,

0:41.3

but there's a huge community out there who does yeah who's interested in in in in your knowledge so let's start with techie for hire what is techie for hire well I as I often say to people if you don't absolutely need it I probably specialize in it.

0:59.6

In other words I really do the kinds of things that a lot of the luxury items. I do you know everything

1:09.1

from satellite dish rooftop satellite dish installations.

1:13.3

I do a fair number of television retrofits, like you can see here.

1:18.6

Home theater style sound systems in RVs.

1:22.3

I do solar installations. I do inverters, batteries. A lot of it's, you know, the solar has been quite big in the last few years. There's been I can't even

1:38.0

remember how many years it's been going on now but there's been a 30% tax credit

1:41.5

on not only solar panels but everything related to their

1:45.4

installation. The wiring, the solar charge controller, batteries, the labor,

1:50.6

everything like that you get 30% back on your taxes.

1:53.7

So that's the last, probably the last three or four years I've been doing

1:59.7

a fair number of solar installations.

2:04.0

Internet access.

2:05.0

Internet access, thank you.

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