Living in New York City, the financial capital of the world, talk of the markets can easily occur multiple times a day even for the average bystander. I also happen to be a personal finance junkie, used to work in finance and still have friends in the field, so recession watch is at the top […]
As we’ve been writing about on here since the beginning of this website, our youngest daughter goes off to college later this year, and that will be the moment we officially become empty-nesters and can employ our FIRE escape plan. She is now receiving her college decisions, and scholarship / financial aid offers, and so […]
Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. We may receive compensation if you click one of those links and purchase a product. This reader is choosing between a real estate investment in Alabama or Costa Rica: My wife and I (both born and raised in the US) are looking into buying our […]
With both our youngest daughter and my nephew graduating high school this year, the subject of taking a gap year did come up for discussion. Both kids are going straight to college, but both did express interest in Costa Rica if they had opted to do a gap year. My nephew is interested in marine […]
In a recent post, Mr. Free @ 33 blogged that FIRE is a paradox, pointing out that the people most well-positioned to achieve are the people least likely to need it – Warren Buffett is the example cited. In the post, Mr. Free @ 33 was inspired by Retire By 40, another blogger who had […]
My friend who took almost six months off for a travel sabbatical recently landed a job. He got this offer after two to three months of job searching, and it is at a comparable level to where he left off. Clearly his time away didn’t detract from his career. That said, there is no guarantee […]
While we have sold off real estate before, we have done far more buying than selling (19 purchases, 3 sales). However, we have a rental condo in our Jacksonville Florida portfolio that we are thinking of selling. We have made the mistake before of selling prematurely, and we have good reasons to keep this place. […]
It’s a bit hard to believe how quickly the time goes by, but one year ago Caroline and I started our new website, Costa Rica FIRE! It was not our first attempt at a website. We had created one previously, while I was still working my corporate job, and over time we felt the name […]
One of my favorite parts about owning vacation rental property in Costa Rica is that we have business reasons to visit, making our trips tax-deductible! It is also fun to experience business in another country and culture. We had just six days in Guanacaste, but we squeezed out a lot of work and play. Day […]
I’ve been on a radical new nutritional plan (OK, a diet) for the last 5 weeks, and wanted to report back on my thoughts and impressive progress! While I started out as a very skinny kid, over the years I’ve slowly gained weight. I’ve never considered myself obese, but definitely a couple dozen pounds heavier […]
