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You can read about why we started buying real estate here. How we saved up the money to purchase our first property here. And how we actually got started here: I was already deep into the FIRE (financial independence retire early) movement when I started considering real estate. Real estate investing just kept […]
Read MoreDo you ever listen to an investing or real estate podcast and scream at your phone “But HOW?! *HOW* DID YOU SAVE UP $50K TO BUY YOUR FIRST HOME?!” “*WHERE* DID YOU GET THE MONEY TO REHAB YOUR PRIMARY HOME?!” “*HOW MUCH* WERE YOU EARNING TO BE ABLE TO BUY FOUR PROPERTIES IN ONE […]
Read MoreIf you’ve ever read this blog, or talked to me in real life, you know I was not a fan of real estate I can’t stand to be in debt. A mortgage would only tie us down. I had no desire to be a landlord. So what happened? Well, you know how every Boomer […]
Read MoreBut also me, when our youngest daughter wakes up at 0600.But also me, when our youngest daughter wakes up at 0600. Rewind to January Back when I was losing my mind, I was working hard to identify my major triggers. Work, money, waking up feeling drugged and unproductive. I was drugged and unproductive. I still take […]
Read More132 days That’s how long the new me has been around. I know, because it correlates with my Duolingo streak. Nuevo año, nuevo yo. Back in January, I was in the middle of an existential crisis. Over my job, and our finances, and the fixer-upper I thought I would love living in but do […]
Read MoreI took a quick poll at work the other day: Have you heard of a high yield savings account? 5 out of 5 nurses said no! People, this is 2024, and interest rates are huge! And if you don’t have a high yield savings account, you’re missing out. Do yourself a favor Go check your […]
Read MoreAurora Borealis, baaaaaaby! The northern lights are one of our favorite things about this amazing planet, and in 2024/2025 the chances for seeing them will be even higher than normal. This is Mother Nature at her absolute best, and you won’t want to miss them! Please keep in mind, for those who expect cinema quality […]
Read MoreWhen I was pregnant with our first baby and stressing TF out about its negative environmental impact, I announced to everyone we’d be using cloth diapers as one way to offset said impact. My girl Sarah sent me a laundry basket full of cloth diapers she used on her babes (that she had also received […]
Read MoreOnce upon a time I was a burned out, disgruntled old hag who wouldn’t have recommended a nursing career to her worst enemy. Well, okay, I would like to see my worst enemy wipe poop from under a grown man’s testicles, so… maybe I would’ve. I left my last staff nurse position in 2015 and […]
Read MoreThere’s a saying in our household: “Everything’s workin’ out Warcken.” And it typically does, even when we think it doesn’t, or won’t. Maybe we’re just incredibly fortunate (definitely true), or maybe we just have what Greg calls “PMAs”, or positive mental attitudes. Or maybe it’s both those things plus the fact that we’re delayed gratifiers. […]
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