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Mar 26, 2018

#122: Tony lives in Chicago, where the returns on rental properties are so-so. He's thinking about investing in Indianapolis, where he consistently finds rental properties with cap rates that are greater than 8 percent. Should he invest locally, so that he can get a primary residence mortgage and keep a closer eye on...


Mar 19, 2018

#121: After Liz Thames graduated from college, she couldn't find a job.

"Nowhere would hire me," Thames says. "I had what I thought was this nice resume, and I sent out over 50 applications. Nowhere called me back."

She took a temporary job at a document-scanning agency, then joined Americorps to serve as a full-time...


Mar 12, 2018

#120: Roger Whitney, age 51, calls himself The Retirement Answer Man. As a financial planner, investment analyst and podcast host, he focuses on helping Baby Boomers craft a traditional (past-age-60) retirement.

Today, he joins me to answer two questions that come in from our community.

Our first question is from Emily,...


Mar 5, 2018

#119: Once upon a time, in southern California in 1994, there lived a man named William Bengen.

He read many claims, widespread at the time, that said that since the markets return at least 7-9 percent compounding rates on average, retirees could withdraw and spend 7 percent of their portfolio.

William had a hunch that...