Feb. 14, 2025

Fires - Are You Properly Covered?

Fires - Are You Properly Covered?

Fires - Are You Properly Covered? – With the recent fires in California, many homeowners across the country are wondering if they are properly covered. Chris Boyd welcomes Special Guest Doug MacDonald, CPCU to the episode. Joining them is Jeff...

Fires - Are You Properly Covered? – With the recent fires in California, many
homeowners across the country are wondering if they are properly covered. Chris Boyd
welcomes Special Guest Doug MacDonald, CPCU to the episode. Joining them is Jeff
Perry. The conversation begins with an outline of what homeowners’ insurance covers
and what it does not. Specific topics reviewed include coverage limits, earthquakes, and
flood risks. Doug offers advice concerning the value of a guaranteed replacement
endorsement. For more information about Doug MacDonald, check out the link below:
https://riskadvice.com/
For more information or to reach Chris Boyd, Russ Ball or Jeff Perry, click the following
link: https://www.wealthenhancement.com/s/advisor-teams/amr

 

Transcript
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Welcome to something more with Chris Boyd.

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Chris Boyd is a certified financial planner, practitioner,

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and senior vice president, financial advisor at Wealth

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Enhancement Group, one of the nation's largest registered

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investment advisors.

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We call it something more because we'd like

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to talk not only about those important dollar

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and cents issues, but also the quality of

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life issues that make the money matters matter.

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Here he is your fulfillment facilitator, your partner

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in prosperity, advising clients on Cape Cod and

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across the country.

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Here's your host, Jay Christopher Boyd.

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Welcome to something more with Chris Boyd.

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I'm Chris Boyd here with Jeff Perry.

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We are both of the AMR team at

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Wealth Enhancement Group and glad to have you

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with us listening for another segment of something

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more, um, today we're talking about early retirement.

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You know, Jeff, every once in a while,

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I get these, um, Notifications of topics and

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articles that, um, reporters might be looking for

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comment from, um, an advisor to weigh in

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on, and, um, this one caught my eye.

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I don't know if we'll get, um, quoted

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or not, but I thought it was an

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interesting, uh, thought exercise that we might want

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to share with our listeners about some of

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the challenges.

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If you are going to think about retiring

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early, I know you, uh, probably as much

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as I do hear from people who say,

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yeah, one of my big goals is I

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want to be done.

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I want to retire, um, early and, you

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know, there may, some people are focused on

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it and really dedicated to that.

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Right.

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And some people just have this sort of

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vague, yeah, I'm tired of working and I

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want to be done.

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You know, so, uh, it's a real high

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percentage of people who have that thought process,

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you know, like what if I, what do

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I need to do?

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Right.

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How can, could I pull it off?

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And they kind of go through the checklist

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in their head and, you know, it's the

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checklist might not include all the things they

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should, but I think a lot of people

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think about it, right?

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Um, now just as an aside, I mean,

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I, I have one client, excuse me.

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He's become one of our biggest clients.

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Uh, he came in, uh, I don't know

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if he was even in his forties, uh,

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when he started and said, you know, I

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want to be able to retire young, you

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know, in my fifties and, um, he's been

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just dedicated, vigilant.

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Um, he has a good paying job and

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is able to save regularly, but puts a

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lot of money toward that goal.

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And is, is at a point where he

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could, if he wants to, he just happens

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to like his work at this point in

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time and isn't, isn't desirous, but yeah, he's

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ready.

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You know, uh, I guess that's the, the,

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the financial freedom, right?

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That notion of having the resources that work

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becomes optional.

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That's what we're trying to think about here.

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I always think about this in the context

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of the older radio show host.

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He's not on the radio anymore, but Bob

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Brinker.

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Yes.

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Um, and he had the term critical mass.

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So it's when you reach that point that

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you have critical mass of assets, I guess,

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or income or not debt, you know, the

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picture you've reached that point where you can

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retire doesn't mean you're retiring.

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It doesn't mean you're not working.

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You could be retiring from your full-time

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high stress, fast pace life to a still

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working, but not that right.

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Something that's less than that.

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That's more conducive to some travel or some

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leisure, but not, not going from a hundred

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miles an hour to zero.

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So the definition of, I want to retire

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early is not a single thing.

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It could mean I just don't want to

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do this anymore.

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I'd like to do something else, but something

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that is more flexible and maybe more positive

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depending on one's given occupation.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Well, I think one of the challenges that

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this really presents, there's a number of things

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that do come up as reasonable challenges to

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consider, but the first one that comes to

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my mind is that, you know, you really

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must be saving with abundance because if you

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do retire early and start drawing from your

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investments, you know, I mean, the, the thing

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about it is you, we, people tend to

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be living longer, so we need to be

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planning for the prospects of long life, longevity.

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Right.

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So if I retire, just say, for example,

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in my fifties, 55 instead of, or, you

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know, 50, you know, as an example, I

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want to, I want to retire well in

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advance of the traditional, you know, ages people

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retire, you know, that not only does that

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add 10 years, let's say, or 15 years

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of withdrawals.

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That could be a 40 year run rate,

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right?

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Yeah, we might have.

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So in that case, you could have it

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easily, right?

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40, even more, right?

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Let's say it was 50 and you said

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for age 50 and you said, okay, I

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normally plan to retire at 65 or somewhere

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thereabouts.

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I think it's later from a lot of

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people, but so that's 15 or 20 years

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of additional withdrawals.

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Yep.

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But it's also now 15 or 20 years

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where I'm not getting the compounding impact that

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I would have from all the savings I'd

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be doing in that time, right.

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I'm adding to the account instead of subtracting

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and the money that's already there would be

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compounding for me.

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So it'd be growing, whereas now I'm probably

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drawing from it to some extent.

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So it's a big difference.

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So just that notion of the lack of

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compounding earlier withdrawal and the lack of addition

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over that period of time is impactful.

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So if that's something you think, I really

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want this, you really have to be extremely

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aggressive about your savings.

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We talk in generalities of, oh, what's a

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good amount to set aside?

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People have this question often, and it's a

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really kind of an arbitrary thing.

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What percentage should I set aside for savings

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and investment?

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And I think oftentimes we kind of answer

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that in different ways.

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Well, there's your emergency money, that's one thing.

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Well, there's like vacations and new set of

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tires and delayed spending intentions.

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That's another thing.

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But if we're really talking about savings and

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investment to accumulate resources, we try to encourage

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people to, if they can, from the very

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beginning, save 10%, they're going to be well

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ready for any kind of financial challenges they

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may face over their lifetime or opportunities like

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this that they might say, oh, I have

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the opportunity for financial freedom earlier.

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I want to add a couple more things.

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If you're thinking about retiring early, you mentioned

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the big ones, but a couple other maybe

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secondary things that people don't consider if you're

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retiring early is you said you're not contributing

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to your retirement plan.

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It's certainly true, but you're also not contributing

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to Social Security.

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So if you're relying on, or if you're

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thinking about future Social Security benefits and you

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stop working, although you're probably vested certainly by

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age 50, you're going to have 15 years

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or 17 years of zeros on your highest

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35.

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35 years.

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How many of those are going to be

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without number?

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So that's a missed opportunity.

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And they all also, I know it's implied

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in your comments, but I just want to

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highlight it because some people who do their

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own kind of spreadsheets and don't kind of

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DIY this, you have that 15 more years

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in this example of 50 to 65 of

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inflation.

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And we certainly add in inflation for the,

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you know, the work that we do, the

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modeling that we do, but I see that

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as one of the mistakes of people who

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are doing DIY and they're saying, all right,

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how much money do I need?

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All right.

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I need $50,000 of income a year.

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And they kind of think that number is

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going to be stagnant, right?

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Because maybe they have their mortgage paid off.

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But as we've seen in the last few

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years, the impact of inflation, sometimes in a

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short period of time, but certainly over 40

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years, you really have to account for that

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and not lowball that estimate of what future

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expenses are going to be.

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Yeah.

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Remember an advisor who, I used to do

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these seminars when I first started out.

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And when I did, there was an advisor

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who had a video series to kind of

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show you what are you talking about?

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And he talked about inflation and tried to

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explain that as much as people maybe do

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have some fixed costs, you know, they also

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have lifelines to the community was the way

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he put it.

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And I think that's a good way to

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think about it.

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Yeah.

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What are those lifelines?

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Well, I have real estate taxes.

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I have insurance.

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I'm going to buy a car.

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The car has gasoline, you know, in, in,

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in repairs, et cetera, et cetera.

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Like I buy food.

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Yeah.

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I like to go out to dinner once

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in a while too.

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You know, all of these things that we

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take for granted, all are subject to the

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risks of inflation over time.

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And, you know, there's, there's a stereotype, right?

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I mean, you ever been to your homeowner's

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association?

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If you're like me, uh, it's all the

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older retirees complaining about the dues increase because

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they're not working anymore and it's, you know,

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these are examples of inflation.

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Uh, you know, they're on a fixed income,

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you know what they're voting against is maintenance.

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So over 40, think about over 40, 40

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years of life.

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If you own a home, if you had

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a brand new home today and you're retiring

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at 50, everything in that house is being

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replaced over, over that 40 years.

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At some point, there's going to be a

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lot of maintenance repairs that are going to

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be needed.

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So, you know, those are just things that

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will work into your inflation concern.

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Yeah.

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Really good point.

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Uh, and, and, you know, as much as

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we might say, oh, inflation's two and a

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half percent or 3% or whatever it

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is, you know, um, rule of 72s.

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Right.

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If we divide that by three, 24 years,

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that's double everything.

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And, you know, if you're living 40 years,

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you know, you're close to probably going to

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get a double, double.

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Yeah.

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And if you don't, if you don't believe

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that, if you just like, yeah, kind of,

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that's not going to happen.

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Go back 20 or 40 years and say,

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how much was a car?

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How much, you know, you pick, pick your

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item that you want to compare it to

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a basket of items and you'll see bread

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and milk and, uh, eggs these days.

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Right.

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Uh, you know, tax, all of them just

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say, oh, it's changed.

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Uh, in a chain, it will continue to

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change.

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That's just the, the reality.

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It was hard.

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So inflation is one of those things you

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have to, uh, be more mindful of.

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I think another one we should include in

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there is, um, you know, you've got to

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think about healthcare, health insurance, um, as one

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of those practical things, if you're retiring, you

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know, in your fifties and Medicare starts at

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65.

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Um, let's face it.

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Health insurance costs are exorbitant today.

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So, you know, is that something you've planned

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for, uh, if you're not employed, you're not

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getting any subsidy from the employer to help

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defray those costs and usually an employer picks

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up some of that cost if you're working

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through their plan, I mean, sometimes a lot

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of it, even if it's 50%, it's a,

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it's big money over a year and decades.

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So, you know, that could add, um, yeah,

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I mean, 20 years of, uh, 10, 10

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years of, uh, those costs rather, you know,

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you could be looking at, I don't know,

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150, 300, you know, more because of inflation,

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right.

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The healthcare inflation is higher.

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Right.

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So, uh, you know, another chunk of money

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that you got to have, uh, set aside

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with that in mind for, and that's assuming

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you don't have any health problems, that's just

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for premiums, right.

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Not deductibles and all that.

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Uncovered dental and other vision and whatever it

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is, things that are not covered as you

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get older, you run into more of these

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non-covered optional things.

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Like teeth, for example, we want to keep

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them, but you know, generally if you don't

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have an employer plan, you, you don't have

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dental insurance and you can buy it, but

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it costs money.

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I keep hearing this from, from people who

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are in retirement about, um, the cost of

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implants and, you know, some of the dental

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expense, just rough.

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It's a common conversation.

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In fact, we had people over last night

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and, uh, one of the, one of the

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ladies in the couple was sharing how much

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money she has spent in the last two

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months as her, you know, need for dental

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insurance has come up and she doesn't have

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any coverage, so, you know, it's, it's not

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inexpensive.

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So just even if you do some, some

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things aren't covered enough, right?

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That's right.

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50% maybe, but yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, um, so, okay.

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Some that's on some of the expenses side

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of things.

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And there's probably others too.

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I don't know.

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Does any, before we move on from expenses,

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anything else that you wanted to think in

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terms of that I didn't think of?

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No, I would just say, I would just

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add when you're projecting out long-term spending

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thing, you know, in addition to the cars

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and the vacations and the home maintenance that

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we mentioned, you have to really consider is

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in the next 30 years, am I likely

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to need to, or want to help a

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family member?

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Cause this is something that sneaks into our

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financial planning discussions.

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You know, do you have a daughter who's

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getting married?

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Did you have a, you know, someone you

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want to help buy their first house or

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maybe a grandchild with college or, you know,

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well, if you're at 50, you might be

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talking about your kids in college.

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That's what I mean.

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That's true.

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So consider not just your household expenses.

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And even if you're doing a good job

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with all the things that we're talking about,

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kind of open up that field of vision

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and say, what am I going to do

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with my time if I retire?

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Oh, I'm going to buy a boat.

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Okay.

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Well, let's make sure that that's there.

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Oh, I'm going to travel more or I'd

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like to be more generous family charities, or

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I'd like to do X, Y, or Z

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hobbies or all these things have potential costs.

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So enlarge your vision and say, what is

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my life look like?

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What am I going to do?

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What might I do?

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And what is the cost associated with that

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item?

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Good, good points.

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Um, yeah, I think those are good examples

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of, uh, sometimes underestimated expenses, the, uh, the

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money we spend on family needs right now

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that come up.

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All right.

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Well, the next thing I want to talk

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about as it relates to, uh, this notion

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of if, if you're going to retire early

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things you need to think about, and, um,

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this probably applies to everyone, but it comes

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to my mind, especially for people retiring early,

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and that's the notion of tax diversification.

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You know, if you're retiring, uh, again, at

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50, 55, you don't have access to your

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IRAs, your 401ks, they're usually, no, there's, there's

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some workaround to that, but by design they're

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structured to be available to you at 59

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and a half.

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And thereafter, so you, you know, you, you

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may want to make sure that you do

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have one, uh, other buckets of money, non

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IRA to, you know, joint account individual trust,

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whatever it might be that non-qualified taxable,

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we'll call it kind of money, um, meaning

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it, you know, pays income tax each year

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as opposed to something that's tax deferred, like

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your IRA or your 401k and so forth.

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And then of course, Roth IRA money, you

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know, it's important to have some different buckets

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of money with different tax treatment.

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Um, so the challenge is if you don't

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have sufficient resources in your non IRA money,

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um, we see this throughout retirement anyway, that

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if people draw down on some of their,

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their investments outside of retirement plans, it becomes

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challenging when they have a big expense, like

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a purchase of a car as it's common

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example.

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Yep.

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Uh, if I want to pay for that

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car and I don't have a non IRA

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account to, you know, draw that from a

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taxable account, um, I have to take that

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out of an IRA.

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I have to, you know, I want to

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spend $30,000 on a car, $40,000

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on a car, whatever it is.

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Right.

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Uh, I have to end up spending $50

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,000 to get that money or, you know,

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fill in the blank, whatever the tax.

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And that's if you're after 59 and a

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half generally.

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And that's if you're 59 and a half.

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Now there is actually a workaround for people

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who are, um, pre 59 and a half,

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but, um, are definitely like going to be

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in a position where they need to draw

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from their retirement money in retire, like in

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a retired status, but prior to being eligible

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to access that money.

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Right.

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There's a rule 72 T that, um, it

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relates to the internal revenue code and it

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does allow for some substantially equal periodic payments.

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Now the rules around this are very precise

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and there, you need to know them before

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you undertake this process.

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Uh, so this is why you're better served

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if you can avoid it altogether, you know,

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have other resources available to you to draw

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from.

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And if you're going to be retired early,

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you probably should make sure you do have

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those additional resources.

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But if you find circumstances change and you

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must, you know, be in a new circumstance,

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um, this separate equal, uh, periodic payments is,

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um, uh, approach that can allow you to

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get access to your retirement plan and, um,

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not be penalized the 10% penalty, you'll

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still have income taxes the way you would

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from your retirement account, but not have the

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10% penalty for withdrawals prior to 59

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and a half.

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And it's worth mentioning there are other instances

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where you can access, uh, if there's a

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disability or, you know, certain kinds of circumstances

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that might allow for, um, uh, earlier withdrawal.

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But in this case, uh, the rules are

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somewhat involved in, you know, I wasn't planning

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to spend the whole show on this, but

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just the notion that it is available.

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The challenge becomes if your circumstances change, let's

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say as an example, you start down this

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path of a 72 T 50, you know,

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you're going to withdraw some money, uh, and

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not be penalized by doing it, you know,

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do it in this appropriate fashion.

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Uh, but then you decide, maybe I, I'm

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going to get a part-time job and

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I don't need to draw from this.

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I'm going to stop doing it.

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You violated the rules of the separate equal

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period.

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Violated the periodic component, right?

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So essentially there's different methods of whether how

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it's calculated.

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Uh, one that I think of as a

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common one is, you know, related to that

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R and D kind of, uh, notion.

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You know, you look at a table to

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come up with an amount and that it's

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permissible to withdraw from.

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And, uh, that allows you an amount.

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Now, is that the right amount to meet

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your needs or not?

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You know, this is why you look at

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these, there's a few different ways to calculate

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what the amount of these periodic payments can

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be.

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And, but you are required to do it.

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Let's say you're 55, you have to do

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it, uh, at least until you're 59 and

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a half and not less than for five

530
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years.

531
00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:00,920
So in that case, you'd have to do

532
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it for five years.

533
00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:05,580
Um, even if you said, oh, circumstances change,

534
00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:06,800
I don't need this anymore.

535
00:22:07,700 --> 00:22:10,300
Uh, so it's, it's an oddity and it's

536
00:22:10,300 --> 00:22:11,180
complex.

537
00:22:11,340 --> 00:22:15,440
And I would consult an advisor, uh, probably

538
00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:18,680
both a financial advisor and a tax advisor,

539
00:22:18,900 --> 00:22:21,780
um, in, in reviewing this to make sure

540
00:22:21,780 --> 00:22:24,820
you follow through on doing it properly, uh,

541
00:22:24,820 --> 00:22:27,020
should you feel that this is a necessity

542
00:22:27,020 --> 00:22:28,400
that you might have to deal with?

543
00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:31,780
On the opposite of the technical comments that

544
00:22:31,780 --> 00:22:33,020
you shared.

545
00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:35,980
I have to say that this, not the

546
00:22:35,980 --> 00:22:40,780
72 T, but this frequency of people who

547
00:22:40,780 --> 00:22:44,820
retire it before 50, after 50, after 60

548
00:22:44,820 --> 00:22:46,960
or 70 with the intention of not working

549
00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,240
and then wanting to go back to work

550
00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:51,020
or finding something that they want to do

551
00:22:51,020 --> 00:22:53,660
or being bored is super common.

552
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So you can think that you're retiring at

553
00:22:57,300 --> 00:23:02,880
55 and you're done working, but I suspect

554
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:05,540
that most people are going to want to

555
00:23:05,540 --> 00:23:06,840
do something productive.

556
00:23:07,180 --> 00:23:08,920
Something, you may just be done with what

557
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:11,320
you used to do and not want to

558
00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:14,140
do that anymore, but that doesn't mean you

559
00:23:14,140 --> 00:23:16,860
may not want to do something for compensation

560
00:23:16,860 --> 00:23:17,920
along the way.

561
00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:20,140
I just had a conversation the other night.

562
00:23:20,140 --> 00:23:22,580
I was at home Depot picking up something,

563
00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:26,280
uh, at the tool rental thing and the

564
00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:28,120
general, I had a police shirt on.

565
00:23:28,540 --> 00:23:30,780
So the gentleman who had long hair and

566
00:23:30,780 --> 00:23:32,760
a beard, by the way, he said, Oh,

567
00:23:33,020 --> 00:23:34,120
you're retired.

568
00:23:34,300 --> 00:23:35,700
I said, yeah, it was me too.

569
00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:36,360
LAPD.

570
00:23:36,860 --> 00:23:38,640
And, uh, so he was talking, he goes,

571
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:40,420
I retired for like five years and then

572
00:23:40,420 --> 00:23:41,220
I had to do something.

573
00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:43,720
I started part-time now I'm working 60

574
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:47,500
hours a week, you know, but that's not

575
00:23:47,500 --> 00:23:48,100
the exception.

576
00:23:48,100 --> 00:23:50,320
That's kind of what develops into the norm.

577
00:23:50,380 --> 00:23:55,440
Like people like, you can only play pickleball

578
00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:57,000
so many days or go to the beach

579
00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,400
so many days or whatever you're retiring for.

580
00:24:01,380 --> 00:24:03,420
And then you can say, well, I'd like

581
00:24:03,420 --> 00:24:03,920
a few bucks.

582
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:05,200
I need to do something productive.

583
00:24:05,340 --> 00:24:06,600
I want to meet some new people.

584
00:24:07,360 --> 00:24:07,940
And a part-time.

585
00:24:07,940 --> 00:24:10,140
Sometimes it's, yeah, there's a whole range of

586
00:24:10,140 --> 00:24:12,540
reasons, but sometimes it could be just to

587
00:24:12,540 --> 00:24:14,080
help you afford some of the things you

588
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:14,560
want to do.

589
00:24:14,740 --> 00:24:15,160
That's right.

590
00:24:15,260 --> 00:24:17,860
And that's what this retired LAPD officer.

591
00:24:17,860 --> 00:24:19,640
That was just getting a part-time job

592
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:20,620
to get out of the house and have

593
00:24:20,620 --> 00:24:21,500
some pocket money.

594
00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:24,180
And then they creeped, you know, like they

595
00:24:24,180 --> 00:24:26,220
offered him a position to manage the tool

596
00:24:26,220 --> 00:24:26,600
rental.

597
00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:28,500
And he likes dealing with all the customers

598
00:24:28,500 --> 00:24:31,500
and contractors and so he's enjoying it.

599
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:32,460
So he's enjoying it.

600
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:36,320
And let's, let's turn our, sorry, let's turn

601
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,520
our attention to a social security part of

602
00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:40,660
this for a minute or two though, because

603
00:24:40,660 --> 00:24:42,300
I think that's something we should also talk

604
00:24:42,300 --> 00:24:43,580
about before we wrap up.

605
00:24:44,140 --> 00:24:47,500
Um, and the whole notion of working, even

606
00:24:47,500 --> 00:24:50,020
if you've turned on social security, uh, early,

607
00:24:50,140 --> 00:24:52,600
it has its own complexities.

608
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:53,120
Right.

609
00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:53,820
Right.

610
00:24:53,860 --> 00:24:57,260
Um, so you want to, let me set

611
00:24:57,260 --> 00:24:58,220
the stage on this.

612
00:24:58,520 --> 00:24:58,920
Yeah.

613
00:24:58,940 --> 00:25:01,560
Really related to my comments of people who

614
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:04,000
retire, say they retire at 62 and they

615
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:05,320
say, my social security money's there.

616
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:06,360
I'm going to take it right there.

617
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:06,740
It is.

618
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:08,480
I know I'd get more later, but I'm

619
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:09,180
going to take it.

620
00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:11,720
And then I want to start now.

621
00:25:11,780 --> 00:25:12,840
I got, who knows how long I'm going

622
00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:13,180
to live.

623
00:25:13,180 --> 00:25:14,580
I'd rather get started.

624
00:25:15,340 --> 00:25:17,000
And then you fall into that scenario I

625
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:18,980
described or something like it, and you decide

626
00:25:18,980 --> 00:25:19,540
to work.

627
00:25:20,060 --> 00:25:22,700
And so since you're not a full retirement

628
00:25:22,700 --> 00:25:26,080
age, which would be 66 or 67, where

629
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:27,500
you'd have a higher number, right.

630
00:25:28,120 --> 00:25:31,400
Um, I think it's 20 some odd thousand

631
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,980
dollars is your limited amount that you getting

632
00:25:34,980 --> 00:25:37,640
to find, but yeah, so if you make

633
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:42,840
more than $23,400 in 2025, I'm pretty

634
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:46,160
sure that retired LAPD officer working full-time

635
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:49,260
managing the tool rental center is making more

636
00:25:49,260 --> 00:25:49,960
than that.

637
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:51,340
So, yeah.

638
00:25:51,780 --> 00:25:54,720
So you wouldn't want to keep receiving social

639
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,280
security if you turned it on at 62

640
00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:00,380
as an example of retiring early, if you're

641
00:26:00,380 --> 00:26:01,700
going to be working part-time.

642
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:06,040
So an important consideration, and it is good

643
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:10,200
that you can, uh, suspend your payments.

644
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,340
If it turns out that you have this

645
00:26:12,340 --> 00:26:15,260
circumstance, you thought you wanted it early and

646
00:26:15,260 --> 00:26:17,640
then you change your mind, even though you

647
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,580
filed for it, you could suspend and that

648
00:26:20,580 --> 00:26:23,820
would still help that new wages would count

649
00:26:23,820 --> 00:26:26,020
toward your recalculation.

650
00:26:26,180 --> 00:26:28,520
So if they, you know, add some money

651
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:30,960
in and took off the zero somewhere, you

652
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:32,740
know, for your 35 years that you were

653
00:26:32,740 --> 00:26:33,820
talking about earlier.

654
00:26:34,340 --> 00:26:37,180
Um, you know, I think, uh, that's worth

655
00:26:37,180 --> 00:26:37,880
keeping in mind.

656
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:41,560
Um, but $23,400, if you, if you

657
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,640
make more than that and you're receiving social

658
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:47,380
security, uh, you're penalized.

659
00:26:47,740 --> 00:26:50,480
Um, it's, it's very unattractive.

660
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:53,180
So, um, you don't want to do that.

661
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:54,840
No, I don't want to do that.

662
00:26:54,980 --> 00:26:57,480
So think about it and not, we don't

663
00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:00,940
have time for this segment to add commentary

664
00:27:00,940 --> 00:27:03,760
on it, but I'll just say it may

665
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:07,180
even be financially prudent to wait and draw

666
00:27:07,180 --> 00:27:09,420
from other assets that you have because of

667
00:27:09,420 --> 00:27:11,420
the, you know, the ultimate benefit that you

668
00:27:11,420 --> 00:27:13,240
would get if you retire at a later

669
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:15,540
date or maybe even 70 because of the,

670
00:27:16,140 --> 00:27:18,000
uh, the increases in social security.

671
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:19,840
If you have a long lifetime projected and

672
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:21,060
all that, we talk about it once in

673
00:27:21,060 --> 00:27:22,040
a while and we'll go back to it,

674
00:27:22,120 --> 00:27:23,680
but there's a lot of things to talk

675
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:25,240
to your advisor about on these.

676
00:27:25,260 --> 00:27:27,580
And it depends on like the spouse is,

677
00:27:27,740 --> 00:27:30,560
uh, who's the higher earning, if they're spouses,

678
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:32,400
you know, all that kind of stuff to

679
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:34,780
help you think about how to strategize around

680
00:27:34,780 --> 00:27:35,080
that.

681
00:27:35,540 --> 00:27:36,660
But yeah, it's a good point.

682
00:27:36,660 --> 00:27:39,940
If you're trying to retire early, not that

683
00:27:39,940 --> 00:27:42,020
we're, we sound kind of negative on this

684
00:27:42,020 --> 00:27:42,320
stuff.

685
00:27:42,460 --> 00:27:44,720
I think, um, we just want to be

686
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:45,300
careful.

687
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:47,160
Yeah, I'm not negative about it.

688
00:27:47,180 --> 00:27:49,040
I just want people, if they can do

689
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:50,100
it and if they want to do it,

690
00:27:50,120 --> 00:27:52,060
just go into it with your eyes wide

691
00:27:52,060 --> 00:27:56,300
open and talk to a fiduciary financial advisor

692
00:27:56,300 --> 00:27:58,120
who has not trying to sell anything, just

693
00:27:58,120 --> 00:28:01,720
has your best interest at heart and go

694
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:05,120
through all these oddities or scenarios or what

695
00:28:05,120 --> 00:28:08,060
ifs to make sure that you're fully aware

696
00:28:08,060 --> 00:28:10,500
of what an early retirement might look for

697
00:28:10,500 --> 00:28:10,740
you.

698
00:28:12,060 --> 00:28:13,960
And if we can be a resource to

699
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:15,940
you in the process, we're happy to help.

700
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:18,220
Uh, we've talked with people with, uh, initially

701
00:28:18,220 --> 00:28:20,540
with a consultation that's complimentary.

702
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:23,340
Uh, we go through a little bit, learn

703
00:28:23,340 --> 00:28:26,120
about you, we then do some analysis and

704
00:28:26,120 --> 00:28:28,080
then have a followup meeting where we can

705
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:31,480
explain to you our observations and make some

706
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,460
recommendations and, uh, elaborate on if we were

707
00:28:34,460 --> 00:28:37,040
to work together over time, uh, how we

708
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:37,700
work together.

709
00:28:37,900 --> 00:28:40,160
So if that could be a resource to

710
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:41,740
you, you'd like to take advantage of, don't

711
00:28:41,740 --> 00:28:44,160
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712
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:46,140
time, everybody keeps driving for something.

713
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