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2018
Financially Independent or Addicted to Money?
I have searched far and wide. Read countless blogs and had many, many conversations. I’ve chatted with individuals who have a net worth of six figures, sev...
Landlord Hacks
Rental property horror stories abound. There are so many stumbling blocks: bad tenants, bad properties, or trouble renting. The possibility of failure is ...
Our Non Budget
Almost every where you look, there are budgeting tips and hacks in the financial independence community. Most of us our limited in how much we can make in o...
Safe Withdrawal Rate: Why We Are Kidding Ourselves
Any personal finance blog worth its salt does at least one post on the Safe Withdrawal Rate. The concept of the Safe Withdrawal Rate is nothing new to the f...
Family On Fire, Do You Have Spousal Buy In?
The story is almost universal. A guy (or gal) suffers through a horrendous day of work and scours the internet searching for an escape hatch. The magical m...
My Ridiculous Love Affair With Side Hustles
We had interesting conversations growing up at my childhood dinner table. My Stepfather, at that time a CEO of a large multinational company, often was teas...
Kids On A Budget
We shop a lot. Now I didn’t say we buy a lot. But we spend countless hours on the weekend walking through malls and shopping centers. I’m not sure exactl...
What’s Your Number?
I get this question posed to me all the time. *What’s your magic number*? When will you have sufficient assets to call it quits? How much is enough? And e...
Second Generation FI: A Life Without Light Bulbs and Inflection Points
One thing I love about the FI blogosphere (Podcastosphere?) are the founder stories. Each and every blogger has a unique and enduring story about how they s...
Why I Fired My Financial Advisor
Like most busy young professionals, I convinced myself that I had little time to worry about my finances. My young adult mind argued that my energies were be...
FI in the Sky
So the unfathomable tragedy came to pass that three unlucky middle-aged figures stumbled towards the pearly gaits to the entrance of heaven at the same time.
The Rules Of FI Club
You do not blog about FI club.
This Is How We Real Estate
We took a trip to the city today to place a lock box and check the condo before the first showing. I emailed my buddy, a discount realtor, a few days ago wh...
Money is a Foil
Money is a foil, a false prophet. Financial Independence is a mirage.
Why I No Longer Read Personal Finance Books
I first discovered FI (financial independence) through blog posts. Like almost every one else in this community, after a hard day of work, I googled some ve...
Optimize
We all know there are Pillars of FI. Principles that we hold dearly as we climb the precipice of financial independence, optimize, and heave ourselves over...
Transfer of Addiction
When you’re accustomed to making money, hooked on investing and saving, a sordid addiction sets in. I’m not talking about shaking chills, the sweats, rigors...
Tongue In Cheek
Hello and welcome back to DiverseFi.com . Today we are proud to introduce a new format. From time to time we will interview movers and shakers in the FIRE ...
An Unfortunate Truth
OK. Things were starting to go well. I was making friends. I even got some comments on my blog. A few tweets. A few retweets. I was starting to fit in....
Why I’m Not a Financial Moron
It’s a miracle that I’m not a financial moron. No one taught me about finances. I never took a course in college. In fact, a few years ago before I found ...
A Confession
I have a confession to make. It’s actually hard to admit here on the blog. But it’s true, it’s absolutely true.I didn’t start reading FIRE blogs because fi...
A Tale of Two Cities
We are a product of our upbringing. For many of us, this means we develop values and beliefs about money and work from our parents. Our communities, howeve...
Breaking the Budget
When my children each finished Montessori school, my wife and I researched before choosing the local public option. My area has extraordinary private school...
How I Became An Art Mogul
I truly believe that the business asset class is important in super charging the race to financial independence. While many dream of starting their own Goog...