Quite positive too - I do have a chance to pass through to the great beyond. If a man broke 25 years ago can do it, why not?
Hey, it's fun to see a link to one of my earliest postings on MMM. I found this site to be in keeping with my financial attitudes and I've been here ever since. But, just for the record, it's WO-man. Yup, I was broke 25 years ago and now...I'm beyond and beyond that. I mentioned this upthread because I'm so shocked, but my retirement calculator says I'll die with 14M with average returns.
Our strategy was to buy investments (real estate), we had about 4 or so properties 25 years ago, including an apartment building, and we were scrambling to keep up with all the mortgage payments we had. The RE market was depressed for so long it seemed it would never rebound, but we kept up with it. I only wish I hadn't sold ANYTHING. The apartments were sold at a break even (we tried to give them away for the existing loans, no takers!), and now worth 400-500K, cash flowing 4-5000K a month, and would have been paid off years ago. Darn that broken crystal ball!