Best wishes for you GZZ. Sorry things didn’t work out for you out here.
I count myself lucky, because most of my rentals stayed in North County so *knock on wood* so far my rentals have been almost fully occupied, with my last condo being vacant 3 weeks due to some minor remodeling, but new tenant moved in with a lease 20% higher than previous one that moved out because they bought their own place.
I retired from tech last December, and I don’t have any plans to relocate out of SD so far.. My kid goes off to college in Fall of this year.. fortunately, I didn’t molest my kid’s 529 college account and custodial account too much, so surprisingly it did better than I expected, so they will be able go out of state up to 6 years including grad school without taking out a student loan. I was a little paranoid about my finances retiring early, but after going through the numbers ad-nausem with my financial planner, he assured me that even if I am unfortunate enough to live until I’m 90 (god please no), I won’t run out of money and end up with a surplus. So for the time being I’m staying here. Maybe that will change depending on where my kid finally ends up post college.
Financial Planner did recommend I stopped trying to day trade, lol, and to think twice about buying any more cars, lol.
It was a little weird and unsettling not working for the first few weeks. But I think I’ve found time to keep myself busy… I’ve been spending my free time volunteering at my kid’s robotics team and taking some autoshop classes, classes that I always wanted to take but never had time and that were taboo to take in my culture growing up… I’m hoping to get my CA Smog Inspector License in a few weeks, just so I know the in’s and out’s of our Smog program… heh heh. Both have been sucking al ot of time, more than I thought it would. I’ve been meaning to do more track days at Thermal, but too many scheduling conflicts, lol.
