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    Financial Independence Daily FI discussion thread - Wednesday, November 17, 2021

    Financial Independence Daily FI discussion thread - Wednesday, November 17, 2021


    Daily FI discussion thread - Wednesday, November 17, 2021

    Posted: 17 Nov 2021 02:02 AM PST

    Please use this thread to have discussions which you don't feel warrant a new post to the sub. While the Rules for posting questions on the basics of personal finance/investing topics are relaxed a little bit here, the rules against memes/spam/self-promotion/excessive rudeness/politics still apply!

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    What scares you the most about your financial future?

    Posted: 17 Nov 2021 08:25 AM PST

    So much about FI/RE seems to be about creating a better future for ourselves & our families, anticipating issues that could come up years down the road, and taking action today to make those issues minor bumps in the road if/when they actually come to pass.

    What specifically, if anything, scares you the most about your post FI/RE life? How are you planning for it today?

    For me, it's medical issues. I'm currently single & self-employed, so I'm settling for meh insurance on the exchange, but it doesn't feel like a sustainable solution. I exercise ~5 days per week and eat well, but I know it's just a matter of time until my body starts to fall apart, and I'm hoping to find a spouse with employer-provided health insurance before then, but that's kind of a crap shoot, and that scares the hell out of me. You?

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    FIRE with Adult Child with Disabilities

    Posted: 16 Nov 2021 07:45 PM PST

    • The situation
      • I am 37, married with two kids and the sole income. My son who is currently 11, has significant special needs that will require lifelong care. We've been really blessed financially and as a result are on track to retire around 51 with a generous income even with the added medical expenses and such we've had along the way.
      • Here's the basic question - does FIRE make sense in our situation? Whenever we retire we are going to have a dependent who may outlive us and would require care and supervision for the rest of his life. Do we push that date back and accumulate assets to support him when we're gone? Do we retire earlier to travel (we all love to travel including him) while we're young enough manage his needs and supplement income later with barista or equivalent work?
      • I've put some of our info below if it helps in the advice you give. I am planning on meeting with a CFP specializing in special Needs but thought I would get some wisdom from the crowd
    • Current assets (24% savings rate, no debt besides mortgage)
      • 401K pre-tax - $477K
      • Roth IRA -$215K
      • Trad IRA - $114K
      • Taxable brokerage - $72K
      • House equity - $130K
      • Cash and "equivalents" -$131K (includes $5K in crypto stable coin, $5k in I-Bonds, and $20k in a 40/60 allocation mutual fund)
      • 529 -$76K
      • RSU -$60K
    • Questions for discussion
      • Had anyone here FIREd with an adult child with disabilities living with you? How was it?
      • Where to put increase in savings as my income grows and spending stays flat - pretax vs backdoor vs taxable – given the potential for needing to spend more sooner?
      • How to handle potential of being FI in the conventional sense but unable to retire?
      • What do I add to our FIRE number for the third person? Does it change the allocation or SWR?
      • Other considerations?
      • States or places better to retire in for this situation? We're looking to move closer to family and to a larger city to improve access to services for our son.
      • What would you do in my situation? Would you still FIRE in my situation? Or spend more now recognizing that post retirement won't be a lot of travel and stuff?

    Edited to add for a couple questions/comments that have come up:

    - Our son is ambulatory, highly social (far more extroverted than me), likes riding his bike and traveling but he also needs significant help with basic personal care and hygiene so we're in an unconventional position as most people with disabilities with his personal care needs are far less active. He also has no real concept of danger or risk also which means he requires pretty constant supervision as he has the ability to run out into the street but not the sense of the risk that incurs :)

    - Life insurance and LTD are both taken care of. $3MM of the former on me and 2/3 salary replacement after-tax for the latter.

    - One of our major goals is to ensure that his sister is not obligated to care for her brother (or any other family member) so we want to make sure we have enough that he's well cared for regardless of what happens to me, to government benefits, etc.

    - We have a will with a special needs trust that will be created on our death.

    - Thanks for the stuff folks have mentioned like ABLE accounts and such. Good info to look into.

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    Weekly Self-Promotion Thread - November 17, 2021

    Posted: 17 Nov 2021 02:00 AM PST

    Self-promotion (ie posting about projects/businesses that you operate and can profit from) is typically a practice that is discouraged in /r/financialindependence, and these posts are removed through moderation. This is a thread where those rules do not apply. However, please do not post referral links in this thread.

    Use this thread to talk about your blog, talk about your business, ask for feedback, etc. If the self-promotion starts to leak outside of this thread, we will once again return to a time where 100% of self-promotion posts are banned. Please use this space wisely.

    Link-only posts will be removed. Put some effort into it.

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    How can I become finically Independent as a high school dropout ?

    Posted: 17 Nov 2021 03:50 PM PST

    Any FIRE people that has lived many years independently and survived previous market crashes?

    Posted: 17 Nov 2021 03:15 PM PST

    I'm wondering how people can have such confidence in the market to trust their entire futures in it. I've heard people say they expect a market crash every 10 years or so, then how can they depend on a 7% withdrawal each year if it drops 30% one year?

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    Employer 401(k) contributions and Solo 401(k) under single member LLC?

    Posted: 17 Nov 2021 02:24 PM PST

    I work full time and receive a W2 and max out my employer sponsored 401(k) and an IRA account.

    I own a single member LLC which I run as a part time job and I'd like to know if it is allowed to open a solo 401(k) plan to continue to put money into tax-deferred accounts on top of the employee limit being hit on the employer sponsored 401(k) plan. The contributions on the LLC solo 401(k) would need to be considered as employer contributions since I'm maxing employee on the full time job. I don't know if that is possible or how it works.

    I'll probably be changing to single member LLC to an S-Corp for other tax reasons for 2021 filing, but I don't know if that affects any of this.

    I'm not seeing much information on this because most people don't do both.

    Thanks for any help or suggestions.

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