Do you own a paid-off car? Congratulations, you are on your way toward financial freedom. Or are you?
Chances are you are considering buying a new car because they look so dang sexy right now. You may as well get a brand-new vehicle with safety features and better gas mileage, right?
That new car smell. Why do we care so much about cars in America? Outside of housing prices, new cars are our biggest downfall.
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One of the most important milestones you can reach in life is to become neutral toward cars and car payments.
If you can train yourself not to want flashy cars, you have a great chance of becoming a much wealthier person.
A sign of status. We use cars as a sign of status and success. This mindset is crazy because anybody can lease a car they cannot afford.
Being able to pay a car payment doesn’t mean you can afford your vehicle. I learned this the hard way when I bought my first car in 2000.
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My car payments were $350, insurance $170, and maintenance and gas $150. By the way, I was making $900/month as an E-2 in the Marine Corps.
I could pay for my car, but I sure as heck could not afford it. If you make $10,000/month, you can afford a $300/month car payment.
Finding a better path. Cars last longer than ever, so we should keep them until the wheels fall off.
You can do great things if you buy a new car and pay it off in five years, yet keep it for another six years. In fact, investing the difference will change your life forever.
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What is income investing? A great place to invest your money is in the stock market. But we are not chasing growth stocks like Tesla and Rivian.
Instead, we are investing for income. We are buying products that pay us back in dividends. Once we earn enough dividends to pay our expenses, we are financially independent.
A new way to look at income. What if you bought a $1,000 TV that paid you $8 monthly? Would you consider that a great purchase?
The longer you held the TV, the more dividends you would collect. Eventually, after seven years, you would receive your $1,000 back from total dividends.
After you receive your initial investment back, you can keep the TV, which will still pay you. Does that sound like the deal of the century?
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If that sounds great, you will love income investing. We aim to buy high-yield securities, receive dividends, get out initial investment back, and keep the income-paying securities.
Hold on to your car for another six years. Let’s assume we keep our paid-off vehicle for another six years after finishing the note.
Our car payment was $600/month, and now we stack that payment into our income investing portfolio.
To simplify things, we will invest in our favorite PIMCO closed-end funds (PDO, PDI, PTY) at a 10% dividend yield.
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If we reinvest $600/month at 10%, we will have $55,500 in six years. This portfolio would pay us $460 per month.
What’s next? Well, that’s it. After you have your income investing portfolio, you can continue your life.
Once you have a nice “big ball” of income, it will do the rest for you. You can sit back and reinvest the $460, and your income will grow yearly.
Let’s say you started at $55,000 and reinvested all dividends for 20 years at 10%. This would give you a portfolio of $373,000 and a monthly payment of $3,100 per month.
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The most challenging part of income investing is getting your initial nest egg. Think of it as a snowball; once you get it rolling, it will continue to grow.
My income investing story. My wife and I have nine brokerage accounts between us. My favorite income investing portfolio is Wells Fargo.
I reinvest all of my dividends inside my Wells Fargo account—March 2021 ($62), March 2022 ($188), and March 2023 ($337).
Therefore, I can just sit back and keep investing the $337, and my income will grow and thrive. That’s the magic of income investing.
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Income investing takes over your life. Of course, once you see the numbers growing, you will want to keep adding to them.
You may look at a $600 car payment differently when you know what income-investing products you can purchase instead.
But, first things first, you must create your snowball of dividends. Once it gets going, it moves very quickly.
By growing your income pot, you are setting yourself and future generations up for success.
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Eventually, your income portfolio will pay for your car payment. My goal for everyone is to build a $1,000/month income investing portfolio as soon as possible.
Conclusion. It takes a different mindset to create a $1,000 passive income stream. It’s not about the money but who you become to earn it.
You will become a different person as you forego today’s luxury car for tomorrow’s income.
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You will become wiser and more in tune with your time. That’s right; an income investing portfolio is about time.
Debt is a function of the past. Saving is about today, and investing is about tomorrow. So when you invest, you are thinking about your future and that of the next generation.
The first step is to understand “why” cars appeal to you so much. Is it the design, advertising, status, or sex appeal?
Before you confine yourself to another six years of debt, think about what you could do for yourself instead. You could set yourself free!
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