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Comment by arethuza

9 years ago

Actually, that's a good point - I've known quite a few people who lived carefully off of investments/property. Fairly common in some (usually rather posh) circles in the UK.

When I sold ww.com the first thing I did was pay taxes (rather a lot), the second to dump the remainder into property to rent out. It doesn't bring a whole lot but far more than the bank or even index funds would bring, and that's at friendly rates rather than market rates.

  • Similar story probably - money from a minor exit into property which did very well, although that was accidental. We just bought places we really wanted to live and they turned out to be very good investments - certainly much better than our pension funds.