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Afford Anything | Make Smart Money Choices

Ask Paula: How Should You Invest a $1 Million Lump Sum?

Afford Anything | Make Smart Money Choices

Paula Pant | Cumulus Podcast Network

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.73.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

#288: Karen and her wife are in their 50s, financially independent, and partially retired. They need $150,000 to buy a new home, and they aren’t sure which option is best. Should they take advantage of the CARES Act and pull money from their traditional IRAs? Raid their Roths? Or take out a mortgage? Ingrid’s mom is retiring this year. To fund her retirement, she’ll sell her property for $1 million. How should she invest this money so that she can live off of it in perpetuity? Elaine has saved $20,000 in a 529 plan for each of her two kids, but she realizes that they may not attend college. Should she keep the 529 plans, or save money elsewhere? Amanda is afraid to tap the equity in her home and use it to purchase a rental property. How should she think through whether this move is right for her? Lisa and her family plan to sell their home and move across the country. They might have the option to pay cash for a home, but they also want to buy an investment property. Should they get a mortgage on their new home or pay cash? My friend and former financial planner Joe Saul-Sehy joins me to answer your questions on this episode. Enjoy! For more information, visit the show notes at https://affordanything.com/episode288 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You can afford anything but not everything.

0:10.8

Every choice that you make is a trade-off against something else and that doesn't just

0:13.6

apply to your money, that applies to your time, your focus, your energy, your attention.

0:18.1

Anything in your life that is a scarce or limited resource and that opens up two questions.

0:22.5

First, what matters most to you?

0:24.6

Second, how do you align your daily decisions to reflect that?

0:29.3

What are these two questions as well?

0:30.3

Lifetime practice and that is what this podcast is here to explore.

0:33.3

My name is Paula Pat.

0:34.3

I am the host of the Afford Anything Podcast.

0:36.3

Normally, we aspire to be a weekly episode.

0:39.3

Typically, our shows, when we're on time, our shows come out every Monday morning.

0:43.6

But once a month, on the first Friday of the month, we release a first Friday bonus episode.

0:50.3

So welcome to the December 2020, first Friday bonus episode.

0:55.0

Every other episode ish.

0:57.5

We answer questions that come from you, the community.

1:00.9

And today, former financial planner, Joe Salcihi is with me to answer these questions.

1:06.3

What's up, Joe?

1:07.3

I'm not Joe Salcihi-ish.

1:08.8

Joe, yeah.

1:09.8

You're Joe-ish.

1:10.8

He's kind of.

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