#building nest egg

[brianwilder]

Real Estate as Your Retirement Strategy: Building a Solid Nest Egg

Planning for retirement can be daunting, but real estate offers a powerful strategy to build a stable and long-lasting nest egg. As a tangible asset with the potential for appreciation, real estate provides investors with both income and security, making it an ideal choice for those looking to secure their financial future. In this blog, we’ll explore how real estate can serve as a cornerstone of your retirement strategy and how you can maximize its benefits.

Why Real Estate is Ideal for Retirement

Long-Term Growth Potential

Unlike many other forms of investment, real estate has the unique advantage of appreciating in value over time. Property values typically increase in the long term, allowing your investment to grow steadily as you approach retirement. This capital appreciation makes real estate an excellent tool for building wealth and protecting your financial future.

Passive Income Generation

One of the greatest advantages of real estate investment is the potential to generate passive income. By owning rental properties, you can create a steady cash flow that supplements your retirement income. With the right properties and tenants, you can count on monthly rental income to cover living expenses and reduce your reliance on traditional retirement savings.

Different Approaches to Real Estate Investment for Retirement

Buy and Hold Strategy

The buy and hold strategy involves purchasing property with the intention of holding onto it for the long term while its value appreciates. This approach is ideal for those who want to benefit from both rental income and future property value growth. As your property increases in value over time, you’ll also enjoy the added advantage of equity buildup, which can be accessed through refinancing or selling at the right time.

REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts)

If owning physical property isn’t for you, investing in REITs is another great way to incorporate real estate into your retirement strategy. REITs allow you to invest in real estate assets without directly managing properties. These trusts pool funds from investors to purchase and manage income-producing properties, providing you with dividends and long-term capital appreciation.

Downsizing and Home Equity

For those nearing retirement, downsizing can free up capital tied up in your primary residence. Selling a larger home and moving into a smaller, more affordable property allows you to pocket the read more

[jonsaremembers]

and if I wrote Dan and Phil as plainfin midshipmen what then. WHAT THEN

[elephantbitterhead]

It seems there's a new fashion in swallows' nests this year.

[intobarbarians]

just discovered i can automatically deposit money into a separate savings account from my paycheck???

[double-oy-7]

am spending my first night in my new apartment (my god i have so much shit to do this week while off my adhd meds cause the closest pharmacy is shit). the ac works p good, but the airflow to the bedroom is terrible, cause it's in the damn living room (it's a wall unit, and it's hot as fuck, for me, a new englander, in new england, fuck you climate change). the wifi is finally working and the signal is 🤌. so at least there's that.

[queen0funova]

Still not over that time my dad wanted to know if I was saving a lot of money, but instead of asking, "Are you saving a lot of money?" He asked, "Are you building a good nest egg?" with absolutely no preamble or context whatsoever

[comradecowplant]

I need the real UHC shooter to return from hiding and set his sights on the pieces of shit involved with Washington state insurance, the eye health-- you know, those fucking frivolous bonus organs that are distinct from the rest of your body of course-- plans in particular. No doctor accepts the state insurance, and the ones who do "aren't accepting new patients" or are halfway across the state. Guess I'll just fucking be blind and/or continue to be unhirable as my busted glasses make me look like an unhoused mental patient 🙃

[relto]

today i saw at least FOUR species of solitary bees ive never seen before! and several of these silly guys:

(picture via wikipedia)

[z0mbie-bab3zzz]

Thinking about tattoos I need 😔 but I have no money

[ri-afan]

If I didn’t get to keep my knowledge then I would likely have a different answer.

To maximise my friends now while minimising the rest, 6-10 would have to be it. Holding out to the next stage would run the risk of coming into middle school too late even if it turns out I fell back to being in first grade again. Though to think I would still move in with my mother for high school for the few friends I have from then even if I didn’t get to graduate with most of them… y’all are special.

Can’t tag L or E.R., obviously, but can tag @shortiethewolf so I will: I love you guys so much and I would say you’re worth it living there with her even if I haven’t spoken to E.R. since graduation and it’s been so sporadic with both you and L since I moved. (You never met her but I think y’all could’ve been acquaintances at the least.) Also, the experience with M and E.C. years 10&11? I was kinda the catalyst to get them what they wanted and I feel like I dropped the ball on the experiences we had. Definitely have to be there for that to happen because they’re still nice people ❤️‍🩹 It would free me from some of mom’s attention too, even if it’s a crappy way to think about it. I’d definitely be doing more to stay off her radar though.

—Listen, I spent the time I was writing the last paragraph thinking about it and I think I would know the perfect time and plan to get things to work out and I still wouldn’t have to take that damn trig class in high school.

I would move after 6th grade because while I love dad I don’t know about being where they were and I only would have one more year where we were. Probably would still get pulled out of public school for bigotry reasons for middle school though (which, half and half it wasn’t wholly a terrible experience even if it truly was full of not the …best things… I’d do my best to work with what I had between all that but it was a… learning experience for sure. Probably ask if I could join a Spanish class though because it woulda been useful at least), then I would land with shortie in art year 9 (oh! I would change the science classes though my god - AP over regular Earth Science, physics over chem 🙏🏼 no APUSH dear god no I love L but I couldn’t with that class again, but I would change how I took that English class year 11) and meet L in that shitty religion club year 10 (I can’t remember how we met outside of that so I guess I’ll have to go to it for him 🙄😜) and totally skip all of that bs with people making L and me awkward af. And shutdown his shit with N bc that just fed into no good things (god, you remember that? I thought it was weird then and still think it was odd a decade later). Would def still turn him into a WonderWoman fan though because I think that helped him overall 😁 That thing with that guy I never actually met in the end from that one place would not happen year 11, I don’t think I let on just how much of a creep he was but I’m saying no right now. Maybe I actually woulda acted on my thoughts with E.R. senior year though. 🤔 Every once in a while I ponder it when I catch that one photo of us.

Then fucking GAP YEAR before college omg. N and I would likely not happen though 🫤 (all well and good for how it ended but maybe I could have done something different there for communication and we actually get to be friends instead of whatever that bs was…) Still move out to here bc it’s cheaper and just not where I graduated in the end (bc fuck that place, sorry E.R. even though you can’t read this 😅 one year there would be Enough) but skip that first college altogether bc holy shit that was a pricy waste of time, then join the second school (maybe I coulda talked y’all into coming along but I’m doubting it hard you lizards 🦎😄) and get that damn degree I love but sadly don’t really use and work towards what I have at this college still because I still love it. Maybe I could use the first degree when I started the next phase of college at that town. Miss me with those living situations in 2019 though, that ain’t happening again.

Maybe I would fucked around and taken a few other classes that caught my eye too but didn’t consider at the time because sexism? Probably woulda helped.

Now, how would this actually change things? It sounds like I’m on the same path overall.

I’m glad you asked! Connections.

This public thought experiment is over though 😛 but I definitely am going to continue it on my own.

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[2happyherder]

[argonphoenix]

i ziptied her flat to the shelf. i hope it holds through the storm

[oysterie]

like i do feel more like a child now than when i was a child. i feel like theres been a regression somewhere the last few years.

[gallusrostromegalus]

Doves and Robins are masters of raising chicks in places you would not think a bird could, but in the opposite directions.

Robins are out there engineering a perfectly stable four-bedroom suburban home with an in ground pool on half an inch of exposed drainpipe, and doves will see a pothole in the middle of a busy parking lot and say "this is a good place for eggs :)"

"Are you… going to build a nest in the hole?" ask the robins

"A What?" The dove asks, laying her egg directly into a puddle at the bottom.

[deathinfeathers-a]

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[themillionairethinking]

Saving Strategies: How to Build Your Millionaire Nest Egg

🚀 Build your Millionaire Nest Egg with smart saving strategies! 💰💡 Learn how to secure your financial future and achieve wealth and independence. Check out our latest blog post. Link in bio. #MillionaireMindset #WealthBuilding #FinancialIndependence

Note: This blog post contains general financial advice and is not intended to replace professional financial. Please consult a financial advisor before making any investment. Introduction We all dream of financial freedom and ability to live a comfortable life without the worry of money But how do we get there? How can we build a nest egg that will allow us to achieve our financial goals and…