Greetings, Boomer. I’ve (nearly) conquered the dinosaur.  I return to you a battle-scarred computer warrior. I’ve spent the last five months battling computer courses to help me manage this website. I lost almost every battle the first time through. It was hard to give up the momentum the blog had achieved when it finally … [Read more…]
Hi Boomer! Don’t you hate it when something you hoped wasn’t true, is true? Me too. Boomer, allow me to inform you of what’s true about my tech skills: I’m a dinosaur. To maintain control of BoomerMoneyandMore.com, and to keep the site sustainable, I’ve got to master these tech skills. As such, I am taking a hiatus while … [Read more…]
Boomer, let’s be honest. You know I didn’t do a good job planning my retirement life. True, I’d planned my finances. I’d planned to travel.  But I never planned how I’d replace: the ready-made social life work gave me; the purpose and meaning that work gave my days; and the structure that work gave to my day, which … [Read more…]
The takeaway: Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) let you own commercial real estate. You don’t have to be a real estate mogul to play with the big “boys.” $$$ Fifty-five years ago, my parents purchased their dream home for $63,000. Today that house sells for $800,000. That’s a return rate of 5% a year. During this … [Read more…]
The takeaway: You can dramatically increase your real estate investment returns by using leverage, which will leave precious funds availble for other uses. However, using leverage on the wrong investment can destroy your returns and have dramatic consequences. Choose wisely, Boomer.  $$$ Hey, Boomer! It was a crisp evening in Fall 2020 I was in … [Read more…]