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 FI/RE - Financial Independence / Retire Early, Share your experience

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polarzbearz
post Jul 3 2018, 07:08 PM

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Just started to look into FIRE after procrastinating for quite a while due to life circumstances plus some excuses. Hopefully not too late yet!
polarzbearz
post Jul 3 2018, 10:17 PM

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QUOTE(meonkutu11 @ Jul 3 2018, 09:39 PM)
Welcome Bro.

Everyone has their own battle. That’s understandable.
But we need to start somewhere, so lets work towards it and keep sharing your journey.

Good luck!
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Not a bro but a sis sweat.gif

For me it was a sudden realization / slap that I ended up in the "Rat Race" altho few years ago I've been reading on some of these topics. Thought I'd avoid the trap since it should be obvious having some "upfront warning" but little did I know all I need was a sudden downfall and I just got deeper into the race.

My goal is really to invest time now to free up time in the long run to do things I want to without worrying on the consequences.
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post Jul 16 2018, 09:38 PM

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QUOTE(LoTek @ Jul 15 2018, 06:26 PM)
I see my post is dubious to many.

Since my studies was fully covered including expenses, whatever I earned part time, i slowly brought back home, its 5 figures in SGD. And no I'm not in some illegal or immoral industry. I worked all sorts of jobs there in whatever spare time I had, photography, crew, promoter, tutor...anywhere from 8-50 sgd an hour type of jobs. Since starting full time work, which started in KL and still is in KL, my income has always been in 5 figure territory. I do not only rely on FD to grow savings that is not invested in props.

1st and 2nd prop is residential, subsequent is commercial. 1st was a mistake, bought from dev, yield is just over 4% which don't even meet the interest: am trying to exit. 2nd was the effort of 8 months of patience, non stop viewing and lowballing sellers until I got a unit more than 6 figures below market value. Believe seller was in dire financial difficulties, and he actually already had an interested buyer, who just wanted to push him another few k down from his asking, I offered to buy at the asking price and got it. Student rental play prop, yield is 9% counted at the market value, more than 10% at the price I got, incl renovate and furnish. I don't think I am not overestimating the value of my props: I take an average of the latest transactions listed on brickz and from the owner group chats.

Sorry to those who feel bad or disbelieve me, I'm being honest, I don't want to boast, I just wanted to inspire some young people my age smile.gif and its not about the income. Its about the discipline in work, expenses and investments. Some of my work days are as long as 14 hours when I need to. Never buy investments without weeks (or months) of study, made that mistake on my first prop. Never overspend. Some of my friends with 4k income a month probably think I earn less than them, from my lifestyle. I grew up in my grandfathers' attic, sleeping on the floor, eating rice with fruits and veges that me and my grandma stole from neighbours' gardens (sorry guys XD) or expiring old meat that my uncle, a wet market worker, was allowed to bring home. When I see people my age spending 110% of their income, with the 10% from parents or credit, and all the spending going to non investment expenditure, it just pisses me off.
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Haters will always be hating and "grapes that we can't eat is always sour". So don't mind them. Impressive achievement you have there. I know of 5 figures earner of early 20's but are nowhere close to what you achieved due to lifestyle spending being the priority than portfolios growth. smile.gif

polarzbearz
post Jul 17 2018, 06:08 AM

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QUOTE(icemanfx @ Jul 17 2018, 05:52 AM)
Why must a person doubting "rich dad poor Dad" story is a hater? Classifying different in opinion a hater could only from zealous cult e.g those highly geared and believe property price will uuu regardless.
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EDITED: 2nd edit to provide better clarity.

Doubting is fine. If in doubt, seek clarification. The only problem is that when negative energy are associated when seeking clarifications. If you look few posts back especially the last few comments, before LoTek clarified. Those posts are really rclxub.gif

If we don't believe, that's fine. Nothing wrong with it. But we can also ask nicely instead of labelling on the spot, right?

On Rich Dad, Poor Dad's book / practicality, again in the end its about mindset. Not everything will be usable or even practical but what's important are the new values gained from the book, right?

Unless you are saying that you did not gain any positive values from the book, then I rest my case.

This post has been edited by polarzbearz: Jul 17 2018, 07:29 AM
polarzbearz
post Jul 17 2018, 07:34 AM

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QUOTE(Ancient-XinG- @ Jul 17 2018, 07:24 AM)
aiyo....
don't fight over a book la. alamak.
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Not fighting also laugh.gif
Not really so much about the books but their negativity 'shutdown styles' of comment against things that they don't believe in.

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