This is a story of how a couple reached very early retirement using the FIRE approach. Zero To Millionaire in Ten Years - Root of Good
Although their story is rather on the extreme side I used a similar but less sacrificial approach so I could retire at 35. I always lived well below my means, drove an older used car and so on. Luckily I had a wife who agreed to do so as well. I had started investing in the stock market while in high school out of my own pocket from earnings from a part-time job. After I got married at 25, on my lunch hour I picked up a book that inspired me. https://www.amazon.com/Turned-into-M.../dp/1607964244
and we started investing in rental apartments, moved on to commercial properties from there and it all worked out.
__________________
"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth." Plato
“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” Thomas Paine
Last edited by manaboutown; 11-17-2019 at 08:23 PM.
|