Billings Real Estate Investing & Real Estate Financial Planning™ Podcast

How can you speed up your journey to financial independence (FI)?

In this special class, James will go over a brand-new spreadsheet and walk you through all the different ways to speed up your achievement of financial independence.

James covers the following in this class:

• What is financial independence?
• How is financial independence defined mathematically? How do you know if you're financially independent?
• A brief discussion of pensions, annuities, and social security and why you may prefer to focus elsewhere
• An introduction to the new Financial Independence Asset Allocation and Cash Flows Engine™ spreadsheet
• Speeding up FI via job income
• Speeding up FI via properties
• Speeding up FI via business profits
• An introduction to Safe Withdrawal Rates
• Speeding up FI via invested assets (and a SWR)
• Speeding up FI with annuities
• Besides earning more money and reducing expenses, what are the strategies for achieving FI faster?
• Sources of money to invest... and allocating that money to speed up FI
• Investing or reinvesting in what to speed up FI?
• The three primary groups of strategies to improve speed to FI: increase savings, increase returns, and reallocate assets.
• All the strategies for increasing savings
• All the strategies for increasing returns
• A discussion of Return on Equity and why it matters when you're trying to speed up your achievement of financial independence
• All the strategies based on reallocating assets
• Risk versus speed - a tricky trade
• And much more...