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How is Your Vacation Rental Doing?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

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. Perhaps you are socking away go-goobs of money for a far off retirement date and are wondering if it is worthwhile to forego all those ‘along the way’ life treats in order to be prepared for retirement. I’m retired! I have been since April 7, 2010.