Reflections on money, life, and early retirement
Working in the energy industry, caring about the environment, and being financially minded have colluded to pique my interest in solar. Unfortunately, in the past, the analysis was pretty short-lived. It simply didn’t make sense financially.
What changed? Why did we decide to make the leap? Let’s take a look…
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Six months after purchasing our home in December, I was already in the process of refinancing. This is highly unusual. How did we decide the time was right to refinance and whether it made sense financially? What do the numbers look like? Read on to find out…
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In the last post, we looked at how we arrived at the decision to see if we could find a house that fit us. In this post, we’ll follow up on that and look at how we went about the search and what we found.
Mrs. Wallet and I recently bought a house. We live busy lives as I’ve described previously. The property is going to require quite a bit of work on our part and is going to divert funds that we would otherwise invest to accelerate our path to financial independence.
How did this happen? Having once thought we would be renters for life, why would we take on this huge commitment? Let’s take a look at what convinced us to make the leap to buying our home.