I Upgraded My Tesla - Was It Worth It?
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Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors
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🗓️ 27 December 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Big News, updated my Tesla. |
| 0:02.8 | Was it worth it? Brian I am so excited about this because for me personally as a consumer I do not yet |
| 0:16.7 | own a Tesla but you I would say you're somewhat of a Tesla veteran and so I'm curious as |
| 0:21.9 | I'm thinking about doing it is it going to be the |
| 0:25.0 | right decision for me yeah I'm for a guy who drives cars for 10 and 12 years I have |
| 0:29.8 | been kind of a Tesla flipper yep and the fact that I've owned a Tesla 3, model 3 got that in 2018, |
| 0:36.1 | then I got the model wah performance, and now I'm happy to say I got a Tesla X Plaad which is pretty cool. |
| 0:44.0 | And for those you don't know, that's the bigger SUV, right? |
| 0:46.3 | Like that's one of the nicer Tesla models out there. |
| 0:49.2 | And it was a little bit hard for you to make that adjustment, right? |
| 0:51.0 | Like you were like, I don't know if I really want to do the |
| 0:52.9 | top-end model and yet you've done it now and so you've got some thoughts on |
| 0:56.1 | whether it made sense or not now I do think it's important that I disclose |
| 0:59.3 | because this is more just giving you some some thoughts on what it's like to be a Tesla owner but then also do I think |
| 1:05.3 | it was worth it but I want to disclose it I also think it's so interesting I don't own a lot of |
| 1:09.7 | individual shares I'm an index investor but after I bought my Tesla in 2018 I did go buy some |
| 1:16.6 | individual shares of Tesla and that's been its own exciting journey but I really I |
| 1:21.6 | kind of want to jump into because I think a lot of you |
| 1:24.2 | might be curious what is it like what the pros the cons because I am an accountant |
| 1:29.1 | let's give you the pluses and negatives of actually owning one of these unique vehicles. |
| 1:33.6 | Okay, Brian, so let's talk about the pros. |
| 1:35.2 | One of the very first things, and this is what all Tesla owners have said to me, is the speed. |
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