Can We Retire at 53 and 57?
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Who wouldn't want to retire early and travel the world? Our latest caller is trying to make that dream a reality. Can she pull it off?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jill on Money podcast. It is Friday, May 7th. We're going to get a jobs |
| 0:09.2 | report out this morning. I know. I'll talk about it. I'll tell you tomorrow morning |
| 0:13.2 | what you need it to know. It's going to be another good one. Remember, we had 900,000 |
| 0:16.8 | jobs last month. I think we're going to get a million or so this month. The unemployment |
| 0:21.0 | rate is going to keep going down. All the economic indicators starting to really |
| 0:24.7 | show great progress. That's fantastic. I know there are still people who are suffering |
| 0:29.1 | out there. If you are one of them and you need help navigating your financial life, send |
| 0:33.9 | us an email. Ask Jill at JillOnMoney.com or if you know of somebody who's suffering, just |
| 0:39.3 | pass along this email address and we'll get them on the air. We'll talk to them. And |
| 0:43.3 | if you're on the website JillOnMoney.com, hit the contact button. It's very easy to |
| 0:47.9 | do that. And we'll get that note. Don't forget to tell us if you'd like to come on the |
| 0:52.8 | air with us. That is what Mary did. Mary is on the line from Texas. Hello, Mary. How |
| 0:59.3 | can we help you out? Well, my husband and I are looking at retiring in four years and |
| 1:06.7 | we just have some cash flow issue questions. Okay. Let's do it. So my husband is 53 and |
| 1:14.3 | he makes approximately $250,000 a year. And I'm 49 and I manage five rental properties. |
| 1:21.6 | Wait a minute. Hold on a second. You're going to retire in four years. You guys are so young. |
| 1:26.5 | You mean retire retired? Like do nothing or what? What are you talking about? Travel. We'd |
| 1:31.4 | like to travel and yeah, possibly do an RV or do some overseas travel. Extensive. Extensive. |
| 1:38.2 | Like years. Like you're you're out of here. Well, you know, being gone like six months |
| 1:41.9 | at a time. Do you guys have kids? We do. We have two kids. One is launched. He's 20 and |
| 1:49.5 | mostly launched. And the other is a junior in high school. Okay. So I see what I see what |
| 1:55.8 | we're pegging. Like let's get this kid launched and then we're out of here. Okay. Tell me |
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