The blog

163 posts from the journey.

Written in real time from 2018 onward. Airbnb financial updates, the HOA saga, tenant disasters, and how I think about money.

February 15, 2019

Redeeming Travel Rewards – Barclays Arrival+ Card

Travel hacking is something I first learned about at the end of 2018 and I am happy to say I am trying to go all in this year and want to document my journey for you to see! One of the big things I…

January 5, 2019

How To: Post on Instagram From Your PC

I thought this would be something interesting to quickly write about as most of my posts don’t look very clean compared to others who seem to have been doing this for a while. The one way I thought…

About MeJanuary 3, 2019

Biggest Accomplishments of 2018

Now that we enter a new year it is always good to go back and look at everything I was able to accomplish this year. Below are the highlights of my path to Financial Independence: Opened a Vanguard…

About MeJanuary 3, 2019

Why Financial Independence (FI)?

I am always intrigued to find out the origin of how members of the FI community first became hooked. For me, this all started when a friend of mine who I worked with told me to read Rich Dad, Poor…

December 25, 2018

Executing on Tax Loss Harvesting for End Of Year

I am sure a large amount of people are just like me wondering what, if anything, they should do as the year closes out to take full advantage how much you owe in taxes. I know this is the first year…

December 24, 2018

TheYoungRetireeBy33 Entering the Blogosphere

DANG, it has been a little over 3 months now since I first found the Financial Independence community. I cannot believe that I am finally doing this. We are actually about to go on this journey…