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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lol yes. I love your writing style. [/quote]

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Just remember. Keep the house small, that's the key to this whole endeavor working for your family. First of all, you want the extra capital (the other half of the $750k) in productive investments, earning you dividends year after year after year to supplement your income. If you can average 6 or 7% from them, that's an extra $22k per year. Not that you can count on that EVERY year, or that you should be spending it, but it's just an extra $22k per year on average compounding in the background, out of sight. And leave it out of sight. That's almost like an entire extra pension, in addition to the one your DH's already earned.

If you were to spend the full $750k, not only do you not have that extra $22k investment income, but your property taxes will be twice as high, your energy costs will be higher, your maintenance and upkeep and renovation costs will be higher, and your neighbors will be richer so you'll always feel more pressure to spend more just to keep up. [/quote]

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