Travel
The life the investments fund: long stays, mini-retirements, and points math.
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.