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I'd have to say that I am much better shape than 4 years ago. The 401K (through some creative selling/trading) is up 150% since Feb 2009. We have no other bills than the house mortgage, and I still have the same factory job, but making about $15,000 a year in mandatory overtime. My wife still has the same job, but is now making a flat $500 fee for every outside engineering job she does (about 3-4 a month), so money is flowing in but still have 3 teenagers at home finding ways to spend it.
5 years from now, I will be rolling in cash when the house is paid off and the 3 teenagers are out on thier own. I am currently looking at an empty 2 acre building lot right down the road from us in an un-zoned township. We are looking at placing a single wide trailer, or possibly a small double wide, with new septic, and water well for my daughter and her boyfreind. They will then be on a land contract to pay us back, but what better way to get them started.
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