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jpatokal · 2015-05-23 · Original thread
In case you were wondering how they pulled this off at 35:

The author retired from his CPA job at KPMG to live the life of world travel and financial freedom. When he retired in 1984 he was making in excess of $125,000 a year. The concept works best where you have a high priced personal residence in a hot real estate market. The premise is that you sell your high priced house and your status car. Then you take the proceeds and invest it in a SAFE, CONSERVATIVE investment living off the interest and never touch the principle. You move to a lower priced area, either in the US or outside.

(from http://www.amazon.com/Cashing-American-Dream-Paul-Terhorst/d...)

Although that leaves it unclear how you got the high-priced house in the first place, much less the status car (why buy one if you're going to sell it anyway?). And the "safe, conservative" investment was cash deposits at a bank paying 8%/year, but good luck finding that these days...

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