When I got my only kid out of college, I thought I was through too. That was about 4 years ago. Since then she started working, got married, had a baby, bought a home. Now, tomorrow, I'll be helping them fund a refi so they can stabilize the payments for the next 10 years. Kids never seem to go away...<groan>
Be careful on the Estate deal, last time I went through it, anything over the one million mark was taxed at about 33%. In our case, after selling off all the little stuff we were still a quarter mill shy of paying Uncle Sam his due at the nine month anniversary. So I sent him a letter explaining things with a check for all we could muster at the time. Didn't help much. Three months later we finally sold another property and were able to realize some real cash after Uncle took his due and interest/penalties.
Post-carbon? You must have really great genetics! I expect a carbon based economy to survive in this country for another 50 - 100 years.
If only silver would take off! I still have a bag of dimes buried in the back yard when I was building the second home. The home quadrupled in value while the silver declined to about 25% of original value. I still bless those old gold bugs who "helped" me make that "intelligent" decision. Maybe if some super calamity ever happens, those dimes will come in handy, but I won't hold my breath.
As far as sell it all, what the heck for? Then what do I do for fun? Without skiing, boating, fishing, golfing and sailing what's the point of hanging around? We'll all be a long time dead afterwards. |
