Passive income is a must, especially if you’re trading your life in America to start living in Portugal. Why Portugal? Besides the climate, coastline, and comfortable cost of living, Portugal allows today’s guest, Brandy, to live abroad with a passive income visa. Brandy already works remotely, but will be giving up a significant amount of her income once she makes the move.

Brandy has multiple streams of income—her contract work, her eBay business, her rental portfolio, and her husband’s job. In total, this comes out to a handsome $300k per year, and that’s on top of the million dollars worth of equity that sits between her vacation rentals and her primary residence. But what’s the point of so much equity if you can’t use it? This is the main topic of today’s discussion!

Brandy is wondering what will make the most sense for her life abroad—keeping the rental properties or selling and investing in stocks? In order to offer suggestions, Scott and Mindy take a look at Brandy’s entire financial picture, where she stands in terms of retirement, how high her expenses are, and what she can do before her journey to start on the best financial foot possible.

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Episode 288

Show notes at:

00:00 Intro
03:54 Bankruptcy, Starting Businesses, and Airbnb-ing
16:35 Building BIG Equity
17:33 Income and Expenses
24:27 Assets and Liabilities
27:32 Uprooting to Portugal
29:18 Will Selling the Rentals Get Her Closer to FI?
39:24 Bigger Safety Reserve, Less Financial Fear
46:47 Too Much Real Estate?
50:23 Buying a New (Used) Car
53:10 Backdoor Roths and Maximizing Retirement
57:15 Calculating Rental Property Profits
01:08:34 Will Brandy Have Enough for Portugal?

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