Welcome to Costa Rica FIRE, where we write about FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early), real estate, travel, and our vacation rental startup in Tamarindo Costa Rica.
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Making FIRE Possible:
Earning lots of money, living on the cheap, and winning the lottery aren’t the only ways to achieve financial independence. We did it while raising 2 kids, living in a high cost of living city, and with normal jobs.
Learn more in our online course, Making FIRE Possible.
About Us: In our 20's and 30's, financial independence and early retirement were not at all on our radar. We were focused on our jobs, raising our kids in New York City, but also starting to invest in real estate. After focusing on FIRE in our 40's, we were both able to leave our corporate jobs, and now, nearing 50, we are empty nesters, travelling and splitting our time between locations we love. (read more)
Real Estate: has always been a key component of our financial independence plan.
Learn more about why we picked Costa Rica for real estate investment, how to pick your own first real estate investment, how to build your team when you don't have one, how to research a property manager, and how we used our retirement funds to add to our real estate portfolio. We also argue both sides of whether you should have real estate in your own investment portfolio.
FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early): Our perspective is a bit different than most - that pursuing FIRE is smart for managing your career and your finances, even if you don't intend to retire early.
We've written about why FIRE is a useful career planning tool, why pursuing FIRE is more important as you age, how to explain employment gaps, the one question that changed our perspective, and the freedoms that come with FIRE.
Learn more in our free course, Making FIRE Possible.
CostaRicaFIRE has been featured by:
- Nomad Numbers Interview Series: How we have set ourselves up for a future life of traveling, despite a lifetime of raising kids in a high cost of living city
- Late Starter To FI Series: How we shifted from planning a retirement in our 60's, to financial independence by 50.
- Personal Finance Blogs - Know Your Blogger Series: Our insights on real estate and personal finance.
- Real Wealth Network Podcast: Hear about how we grew out real estate portfolio, and how we approach our real estate investing.
- Joney Talks Podcast: How we stumbled upon FIRE and used our real estate to accelerate the process
- Going Solo Podcast: For us, being creative about ones career is a key component to working on FIRE
- My Future Business Podcast: A deep dive interview with Caroline all about our approach to FIRE
- Sisters For FI: Caroline discusses FIRE in stages, and our efforts at passive income
- Keep Thrifty: How New York City enabled our FIRE lifestyle
- Women Who Money: Caroline's perspective as a woman, about money! All about how we approach financial management
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