Travel
The life the investments fund: long stays, mini-retirements, and points math.
Business Hours vs. Family Hours: Investing With Your Spouse Without Killing the Marriage
We fell into what we call Marriage Inc., where every walk turned into a business meeting. Here are the boundaries that pulled us back out.
The Award Flight Playbook: Never Search From Your Home Airport
The same Paris flight: 200,000 points from Phoenix, 50,000 from LAX. How to search award flights like a pro, using hubs, positioning flights, and timing.
How to Plan Your First Mini-Retirement (Start With One Month)
Don't defer travel to 67. How our family plans 3 to 4 month mini-retirements every year, and the one-month trial-run formula for your first long trip abroad with kids.
What Healthcare Abroad Actually Costs (Real Bills)
A $107 specialist scan, a $20 clinic visit, a $900 three-night hospital stay. Real medical bills from six countries, from a family that travels abroad for months every year.
What We Do With Our House, Job, and Phone for 3 Months Abroad
House, income, phones, insurance, ATMs: the complete logistics stack for leaving the country for months, from a family that does it every single year.
I Quit My Job at 23 With Five Rentals That Didn't Cash Flow
Our full early retirement timeline: one spouse at a time, five years to covered expenses, the boredom nobody warns you about, and 10 hours a week today.
The Early Retirement Plan B: Move Abroad
Cut your retirement budget dramatically and exclude six figures of earned income from federal tax. The expat math behind retiring abroad, from a family abroad months every year.
How Much Do You Need to Retire Early? 4 Paths to $10K/Month
$3M in index funds, $1M lent at 12%, 40 rental units, or 20 subscription customers. The real math behind four paths to the same retirement income.
How We Fly Business Class for Free: Travel Hacking for Investors
Rental property expenses earn the points, and the points buy the business-class seats. The travel-hacking system behind our family's $11,000 flights.
Early Retirement Is Less Risky Than Your W2
The job is the risky asset: one income stream, someone else's decisions. The case that betting on yourself is the conservative move.
Travel Hacking for Real Estate Investors: How I Fly Business Class on Rental Expenses
I booked $42,000 worth of business-class flights to Greece for $725. The secret wasn't a flight deal site. It was the renovation budget I was already spending on my rentals.
AI Is Coming for Employees, Not Owners. Here's the Difference.
The average four-year degree costs around $120,000 and takes years to break even, right as AI starts eating the white-collar jobs those degrees were supposed to protect. This isn't the first time technology rewrote the rules. Here's what the people who came out ahead last time actually did.
Eight Lessons From Running My Rentals on the Road
We packed up our daughter, hit the road in an RV for 45 days, and I ran the whole portfolio from the passenger seat. I worked about ten hours a week and wrote offers on a self-storage facility, an 18-unit, a duplex, and a 6-unit. Here is what the trip taught me.
Our First Year of Homeschooling: What Actually Worked
Our first year of homeschooling is done. Why we did it, what flopped, the project-based pivot that worked, and what I'd tell other families.
How My Husband Retired at 29
He had a union job paying $80,000 a year. We were 27 and standing at a fork: take a year off to travel the world, or buckle down and buy rentals. We chose the rentals. Two years later he walked away from the job for good.
Mini-Retirements: How to Travel for Months Without Quitting Your Income
We spent 10 weeks across Southeast Asia with a toddler. Over those eight weeks abroad, I did about two hours of actual work, and the income never stopped coming. Here's how that's possible.
We Said No to School This Year. Here's the Bigger Decision Underneath It.
Our 10-year-old asked to skip school this year. Saying yes was the easy part. The harder choice was the one we made 13 years earlier that made it possible.