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Seven Retirement Lessons Learned

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Hubby is one of those lucky few that actually has a pretty safe pension – one that also comes with health plans (which cover me as well) – so calculating his was easy. Then the Great Recession hit so I postponed for a few years. In 2010, my company was just preparing to do their first round of recession related layoffs.

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11 Things I learned After Owning a Vacation Property

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I also wanted a bit more diversification in our portfolio and figured an additional piece of real estate could help that. Although the operating costs are typically covered entirely each year, the opportunity cost of having all that money tied up in a property (which lost value the year after we bought it due to the recession) is huge.

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