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Afford Anything | Make Smart Money Choices

Q&A: Help! I’m STUCK On A Financial Tracking Hamster Wheel

Afford Anything | Make Smart Money Choices

Paula Pant | Cumulus Podcast Network

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.73.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

#522: Emily Anne is worried about her obsessive tracking behavior. She’s in great financial shape but struggles to shake the constant compulsion to check her accounts. What should she do? An anonymous caller and his partner plan to use geo-arbitrage to retire early before reaching their financial independence number. Can they have their cake and eat it too? Kevin and his wife are having second thoughts about their Delaware Statutory Trust (DST) real estate investments. How do they back out without compromising their estate plan? Former financial planner Joe Saul-Sehy and I tackle these three questions in today’s episode. Enjoy! P.S. Got a question? Leave it at https://affordanything.com/voicemail For more information, visit the show notes at https://affordanything.com/episode522 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Joe you're familiar with the concept of geo arbitrage right?

0:02.8

Oh I love it.

0:03.8

Yes.

0:04.8

For the people who haven't heard of it, five seconds.

0:06.8

What is it?

0:07.8

Go.

0:08.8

You move to a place with the lower cost of living so that you're able to live the same lifestyle but

0:14.8

on a lot less.

0:15.8

Okay, and where would you go if you had to do that?

0:18.2

Let's say you needed to do it for like a year.

0:19.8

Oh, I like my time in Bali.

0:21.2

I thought that was really fun.

0:22.2

I go back to Indonesia.

0:23.4

Oh beautiful beautiful all right well we're going to talk to a couple who wants to retire on three million dollars they are

0:29.0

close but they're not there yet and they want to geo arbitrage in order to get to that 3 million mark.

0:36.0

Sweet!

0:37.0

Welcome to the Afford Anything Podcast, the show that understands you can afford anything but not everything.

0:42.3

Every choice carries a trade-off and that doesn't just

0:45.3

apply to your money it applies to your time your focus your energy your attention to

0:48.8

any limited resource that you need to manage. So what matters most and how do you make choices

0:55.0

accordingly? That is what this show is all about. My name is Paula Pan. I

1:00.3

trained in economic reporting at Columbia and I am the host of the show every other episode is

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