Hello Mustachians,
About eleven years ago, I bought my first house. Three years into that, I ended up having to move across country and ended up renting it out (housing market had just crashed in the US and there was no selling at that time). The rent/taxes ended up break-even for the duration, but I found I really really really dislike being a landlord, even with a property manager to keep a local eye on things.
One of the previous tenants just dropped a very nice offer for the house on my lap out of the blue (YAY!) which will take me out of all debt and give me a six-month emergency fund to play with. Finally, I can start heavily investing in my retirement so instead of "debt-free by 50" it will be "FI by 50" (that's in six years, fwiw).
I am painfully embarrassed that it took me this long to figure out how to be a Mustachian, but let's just ignore the fact that I was an idiot for the first 20 years of my adult life. My actual question for you is: given my discomfort with being a landlord, what alternatives are there for investment when I max out my various traditional retirement funds? What would a real Mustachian do?
Thanks!
Heather