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How is Your Vacation Rental Doing?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Gather the family. We paid around $200,000 in 2007 for the property with an extra amount for furnishings and a slip in a yet-to-be-built boat dock. If we hadn’t sold stocks and mutual funds to come up with the money to close the sale (cash on the table), we wouldn’t have generated a huge capital gain in 2007.

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Seven Retirement Lessons Learned

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Hubby retired in July 2007. So far, I have been so busy with my web sites ( Family Money Values and Bellyfat ) that I haven’t had time to explore any of the other ideas. I’m retired! I have been since April 7, 2010. This introduced me to a slew of new entrepreneurial type people and taught me some great academics.