How I Learned About Investing in Real Estate

December 17, 2024.Reading time 22 minutes.

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 […]

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Investing in Layman’s Terms

June 1, 2018.Reading time 25 minutes.

If you are well-versed in personal finance, this post is not for you I wrote this as a catch-all for the people I work with everyday who have no idea what it means (and especially how) to invest. There are obviously many more retirement and other investment accounts out there, but the following are […]

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Our Investment Strategy

April 25, 2018.Reading time 15 minutes.

Spoiler alert! Our investment strategy is super boring, and anything I know about investing I’ve taught myself through numerous books, blogs, and podcasts. And you can too! Since getting married in 2013, thanks to quitting a job I detested, traveling, and travel nursing, I’ve worked a total of 39 months. That averages out to […]

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New Life Resolutions

December 5, 2017.Reading time 20 minutes.

It’s nearly the end of the year and you know what that means! Christmas? God, no, it’s time to clean up the finances! Jk, that’s been going on since January 1. This year has been full of positive changes for the Warckens, mostly wrought on by negative impacts on our lives. My stepdad died […]

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