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Curious, how much emergency fund are you planning on saving up? And is that individually or as a couple? I’m just about to finish my emergency fund but keen on redirecting the bulk of savings to investing again…

Are these mutual funds? The problem I see with this, is that all the money is "stuck" in those funds and the only way to access it is to sell some shares (or maybe take out a collateral loan?). But doing so would decrease your net worth. So what is the point? And be careful of any fees and taxes. At least you are getting some dividends! By the way what is the yield % ??

Would you not be better off with a newer car on finance up to the value of 80K LCT if it's tax deductible? If you were paying 35- 47 cents in the dollar tax and you can claim let's say 75% as a tax deduction. The interest on the loan and depreciation being a deduction. Using the banks money to have the car and saving the cash for something else?

I slow flip and went thru the 2008 crash in the US. Scary AF, but not the end of the world. In that case many people lost their over leveraged house, but not their well paying jobs. They had nice houses full of nice furniture. The were not interest in moving into an apartment. I had 1 house free and clear and bought a 2nd house, a fixer, in 2009 from a bank when it was down 25%, it went another 25% lower but that never affected me. I could then rent the first house to a family who lost their house. Rents for SFH were good. They were bankrupt but he had a great job. The crash lasted a lot longer than I thought but has come back. Less they stop making people real estate looks good to me. In 2009 and 10 I bought building supplies from failed foreclosed flippers. Banks were paying people to board up properties and clean them up. Removing building materials was a huge cost so they'd but it in a Craigslist ad, some times free, never less than 90% off. All I did was go around buying whatever was quality material. I stacked in my flip house and yard, canvas to protect from weather. It was scary sinking more money into a crash that seemed like it might not ever end. But $0.50 USD for 1/2" OSB and similar deals just seemed too good to pass up. I bought 166 sheets of that OSB, stacked right in the yard and tarped with high quality rubber tarp (EPDM). I used the OSB as needed and I could use it in places that normally wouldn't be needed, but it made for a stronger structure and $0.50 is almost free. Sold 132 sheets in 1 hour off Craigslist for $49/sheet to a company that couldn't get OSB at any price and they needed to make their product. $6400 profit. I sold a lot of excess building materials in 21-22. To me any market change is an opportunity. Up or down, doesn't matter. Just have to be prepared, never over leveraged, and able to take risk. Scary AF but thrilling when it works out. Good materials, good properties always do good.

Bought my first property with 2 other guys when in college after being in the Army 3 years to get money for college. The other 2 guys were Vets to. We thought the off campus rent was super high and pretty crappy, so we pools our money and bought a large dump with the agreement to sell in 4 years. We fixed it up a little can crammed as many student renters in as we could. When we sold we made some and had saved paying rent. I continued slow flipping and now at 67 years old I'm finishing up a house to sell next year. I enjoy the investing, design and construction parts. No deadlines is what makes slow flipping fun for me. But now at 67 I have to prepare for extreme only age and will be moving to SE Asia. Better medical and long term care is affordable and excellent. Still healthy so I'll explore that part of the world. One tip I have for people starting out. It's an extremely serious threat to you and your business. I've not heard any real estate investors or FIRE people talk about because they think it could never happen to them. But there's a 50% chance it will. The risk is divorce in the US and most Western countries. Even just living together can be a huge risk. You get leveraged up and a divorce forces a 50-50 split at the wrong time and it can all far apart. Protect yourself and your business. How? I don't know. But at least be aware of how serious the risk is. It is way better to negotiate splitting terms when you're still in love and wanting to protect each other than when the hate starts.

Investment property car is bad investment lose value 😊

just discovered your channel. currently going through you back catalog of videos. Great to see you sharing your journey to fire and giving hope to some of us who are just starting 😉 good content

This discussion is never ending process...so I don't care anymore

I would get a house and rent out 1 or 2 bedroom to make money to pay for mortgage

It's not like we have a choice right now. All apartments are expensive.

How did you make a booking?

They're exposing their bank accounts to fraud when paying via debits. They're missing out on insurance and loss coverage for travels and car rentals and various cancellation coverages plus many other perks when using cc. Most importantly, some places, credit score may be used as a measure of trustworthiness for better loans rates, rental and hiring or promotions.

Bad advice for responsible spenders. Good advice for irresponsible spenders

what a stupid advise

damn you are dirt poor

someone is gonna come and rob you

Hey again guys, i had a follow up question if you wouldn’t mind - the reason I was considering bridging finance, was to avoid the stress of selling first & having to book a removal company/store my furniture somewhere, and then having to book them once again, once the new place is secured (doubling that cost). In the meantime it’s hard to get a short term rental after selling the first place, unless I spent a huge amount on an Airbnb. I also need a guaranteed peaceful and secure place to work from home at least 7 hours per day (and you never know what you’ll get with an Airbnb) With bridging finance there would be no disruption to my life and I’d just need to book the removal people once (instead of putting things in an out of storage) and I’d be able to work from home & avoid paying huge amounts of rent to Airbnb. In my scenario it seems like I’d actually save money with bridging finance and save a huge emotional toll. What are your thoughts on this? This is for moving to a place within the same city

Thank you for your honesty. It helps to see real people making real videos

What do you think about BTC and ETH ETFs? Vanguard obviously won't go near them... so maybe via another broker?

I like these real people updates on investments and net worth. I try to invest in stocks every month, not only for myself but for my family. If you will continue with the updates I think it would be nice with a cardboard for the numbers.

You guys responded! Thank you, very valid reasons. Especially having to sell your place interstate after buying, sounds like a heap of stress. Pls keep up the vids, I prefer watching you to Dave Ramsey haha good financial content without the shouting. Thanks again.

Kalau di Amrik, saya prefer Roth account for the FIRE goal, meaning those numbers are the after tax amount. Saya dan istri sekarang maximizing this account every year. Good luck ya. Saya tinggal di Amrik.

jeez ... who f****** cares ...

Hey guys love your vids, just a Q I had - you mentioned you had to sell before you bought but I have since learned that most people don’t do this in Australia, they buy before they sell because they get ‘bridging finance’. What are your thoughts on this? Thanks

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thanks for this info - was clear and well explained. cheers

Well don't advertise it to everybody.

Great stuff, assuming you're property is owned outright? Otherwise those stocks could be in the offset/redraw!

What types of stocks/mutual funds is in ur portfolio? And their allocation?

Study Bitcoin. All the smartest people who dont have a interest in the corrupt system they created cant be all wrong. If not for you for your children. 20 years from it would be alot.

If you can't live off $170k ...... you have problems.

I use to travel 2 hours each way to work mon-fri...it was taking a toll on me. Don't do it if you got kids, it's a young man's game. My typical day was: 1.Drive to the train station 12mins 2. park the car and walk to the train platform (3-5mins) 3. Take 2 trains to get to the office (1.5 hours) 4. Walk to the office (10mins) Then go and do the reverse to get home I can happily say I passed probation and covid was a godsend and I'm now working in the office 1 day a week with the same company and our office relocated saving me that 30mins each way changing trains. So I'm happy I got an express train to the office. I've been with the company now 7 years. I use to love driving to work doing 30-60mins and hated public transport that I would get travel sickness but now I love public transport and walking to the office even when it rains over driving to work.

Easily enough

My household is on considerably more than that and struggling - admittedly largely because of interest rates. We're surviving but just. If rates keep going up, we will no longer save anything.

Ιt's perfectly fine for a couple of years But if you stay for good, then at some point your wife will inform you that you can't rent forever, she can't even put a nail on the wall, you have to buy your forever home. And it has to be in a good suburb because of better schools, who's gonna think about the kids, don't you love your kids? Dont you want them to have a good education? And then you start going to auctions where the RE agent told you yesterday "about a million should be enough" but somehow the bidding actually starts at $1.3m and finishes at $1.8m. And that's when you realise how fucked you really are.

In sweden a normal pay is 40k a year. 170k is fantasy money here really.

170k is barely enough for 2adults + 2 kids. if you are frugal and cook most meals, the probably. But if you want to save anything beyond 30k per year and have 10k for holiday per year then its tight. 170k will land you in a rental of around $600-800 per week.

In Melbourne/Sydney/Brisbane just enough esp if you have kids, in regional areas you would be upper middle class,e.g (Mlidura, Bendigo, Wangaratta, Albury etc)

Good points

Depends where in Australia you live

I feel I started late too. It’s exciting when you realize how quickly your investments can grow with compound interest. You guys are good parents to plant these seeds so early 🎉

i am a fan to buy car in cash and like you said "if cant afford it in cash, then cant afford it". cheers!

could you share some of the etfs you are getting?

What buyers agency out of curiosity

What’s the total portfolio value

KZfaq randomly recommended your video. Good to see your progress and passion :) recommendation from a fresh pair of eyes- can you add a timeline / graphic of your growth over time ? You probably have a good story of growth and without that I have no context of the journey

do you know the minimum return % on ETF to breakeven, vs real estate including the full leveraged amount + tax, minus maintenance etc.. on average home price in Australia. I think there should be like a magic % number where.. IF the share market returns Less than X % per annum, you better off taking advantage of being able to leverage housing.

Which portfolio are you using in Raiz?