Cash and Financial Strategies for Real Estate Investors: Part 1
Renovating Retirement With Charlie Jewett
Release Date: 03/31/2022
No Cost - Low Cost Roth Conversion Strategies
Renovating Retirement With Charlie Jewett
Can you imagine eliminating ALL taxes on your retirement income? Well, you are allowed to and it's called a Roth Conversion. What's the catch? You have to pay the taxes TODAY once and done and then your accounts will be tax free forever. Now, can you imagine if there was a way to convert your pre-tax retirement accounts to tax-free Roth IRAs with little to NO tax consequences at all? Now we're talking! Listen in as my top advisor Doug Hermann and I teach how to do Roth Conversions with little to no tax consequences at all.
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How to Use Annuities as a Stock Market Alternative Pt. 2
Renovating Retirement With Charlie Jewett
Today we reveal three tricks to dramatically increase retirement income, including the often overlooked benefits of reverse mortgages and annuities. Eliminate bills. It's awesome. - Charlie Jewett Tired of seeing people struggle to make ends meet in their golden years, we have dedicated ourselves to finding innovative ways to increase retirement income. Discover the power of annuities as an alternative to traditional stock market investments. After listening to this episode, you will be able to: Boost your retirement resources by harnessing the benefits of annuities. Explore the hidden...
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How to Use Annuities as a Stock Market Alternative Pt. 1
Renovating Retirement With Charlie Jewett
We are back with special guest April Brown to dispel the myths and show you the truth. Join us to learn how Annuities can provide a secure, low-risk retirement income strategy. In this episode, we uncover hidden truths about brokers' deceptive practices and how they impact your investments. We also expose the high fees charged by investment brokers and find ways to reduce these costs. You’ll discover annuities as a low-risk alternative for generating retirement income. You will also learn to effectively monitor brokers' performance and hold them accountable. And more! This episode is a...
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Why Can’t We Arrest the Joker Brokers?
Renovating Retirement With Charlie Jewett
We have a special guest joining us today, April Brown, a retired law enforcement professional. And we’re having a conversation about the tricks and strategies “Joker Brokers” use to steer you into a plan that doesn’t work for you but is really in their best interest. It’s mostly deception, and what bugs us is that they are not teaching, just telling. We like to teach and inform our clients so they understand how everything works, and they know where they are going. Charlie likes to use the analogy that these Joker Brokers are like taxi drivers who take your money, and then take you...
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What Does the Stock Market REALLY Make?
Renovating Retirement With Charlie Jewett
We find most people, our clients and prospects, in the stock market. It's the most popular common thing for people to do. How do you know you want to stay there or that that should be a part of your life unless you know how it actually works? How can you make any decisions if you can't see clearly? So, in today’s episode we’re going to help you remove some of the confusion of what it is about the stock market that people need, want and love so much. How is something so popular even though it slaps you around and beats you up and underperforms all the other tools? How does it keep such a...
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Where There Are Losses, There Is Steak
Renovating Retirement With Charlie Jewett
Today, we’re here to chat about what you may have been experiencing for the last couple months in this market, which is where there are losses, there's steak. Watch out vegans, this is not a vegan episode. (Just kidding). There are lots of laws in the universe, and there seems to be a law that when the market goes down, your joker broker advisor wants to play golf or wants to meet you. Their relationship becomes really important all of a sudden! Oh my goodness, wait, the market's down. I should reach out to the Jones’ and to the Smiths… Right? Because they got you with the risk...
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10 Reasons Not to Buy an Indexed Universal Life Policy - Part 4
Renovating Retirement With Charlie Jewett
We are back for the final installment in this series! We have been reviewing an article that came out ten years ago with a similar title to our podcast episode. And this is the fourth in a series where we are going to unpack each of these ten points, these ten reasons, and help you understand the difference between an Indexed Universal Life policy and a Whole Life policy. We want you to hear both sides, so you are well-informed and can make the best decisions for yourself and your family. If you haven’t watched the first three in this series, you can watch those before this one to get caught...
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10 Reasons Not to Buy an Indexed Universal Life Policy - Part 3
Renovating Retirement With Charlie Jewett
We are back to continue our review of an article that came out ten years ago with a similar title to our podcast episode. And this is the third in a series where we are going to unpack each of these ten points, these ten reasons, and help you understand the difference between an Indexed Universal Life policy and a Whole Life policy. We want you to hear both sides, so you are well-informed and can make the best decisions for yourself and your family. If you haven’t watched the first two in this series, you can watch those before this one to get caught up! Today we are focusing on numbers six,...
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10 Reasons Not to Buy an Indexed Universal Life Policy - Part 2
Renovating Retirement With Charlie Jewett
Ten years ago, an article came out with a similar title to our podcast episode. And this is the second in a series where we are going to unpack each of these ten points, these ten reasons, and help you understand the difference between an Indexed Universal Life policy and a Whole Life policy. We want you to hear both sides, so you are well-informed and can make the best decisions for yourself and your family. Today we are focusing on number eight and number seven, we’ve been counting them down. #8 is “Market drops cause double pain” and #7 is “Late premiums kill any guarantees.”...
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10 Reasons Not to Buy an Indexed Universal Life Policy - Part 1
Renovating Retirement With Charlie Jewett
Ten years ago, an article came out with a similar title to our podcast episode. And this is the first in a series where we are going to unpack each of these ten points, these ten reasons, and help you understand the difference between an Indexed Universal Life policy and a Whole Life policy. We want you to hear both sides, so you are well-informed and can make the best decisions for yourself and your family. Today we are focusing on number ten and number nine, counting it down. #10 is “Internal costs are not guaranteed” and #9 is “Mortality charges are not guaranteed.” Listen as we...
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Aside from realizing a part of the American Dream, owning your home is an enjoyable experience. Creating your own environment and being able to make it the way you want it, as opposed to renting, makes it a fun giant art project. More importantly, it is an asset that appreciates. The pandemic changed the real estate value in different ways and the last 9 to 12 months saw a huge growth in appreciation of the real estate market. Appreciation, simply put, is what we all know as investing: buy it, hold it and wait for the long haul and see its value go up. Learn about different strategies to leverage on real estate appreciation and get the most out of your investments.
Tax savings and depreciation
With real estate, whether you live in it or rent it, fundamentally there's appreciation. On the other hand, depreciation or tax savings comes from the IRS rewarding you for buying a property and is another way that real estate can make you money or provide you advantage. The government allows homeowners to count interest they pay on a loan related to building or purchasing a home against their taxable income, lowering the taxes they owe.
Part 2: Income
Saving money on taxes is a form of income. Reduction of bills is income. Income can be one room in your house rented, buying more units in the same property or buying properties in different locations in different states. A real estate investor is someone who owns any piece of property in any form that may create income or increase in value. And for most of us, it's our primary residence. How can you live for free while maintaining cash flow from your properties? You will know all about house hacking to achieve that financial independence for your early retirement.
We will talk about the different advanced strategies in the next episodes so you can choose and pick what you like. How big a down payment should you make? Should you make a down payment at all? Should you ever do extra payments? Should you do a 15-year fixed or 30? When your house appreciates, what do you do? Is the goal to pay off the house and own it free and clear?
About Charlie Jewett
Charlie Jewett is an author, speaker, recruiter, trainer, consumer advocate and investment advisor from San Diego, CA. As the “Financial Services Whistleblower” Charlie has been trying to change the way that industry professionals and consumers think about retirement since 2005. With considerable years of experience and an array of professional certifications, Charlie focuses on stock market alternatives combined with tax-free retirement income and provides educational materials that help people to create their ideal retirement plan. He is the host of two podcasts, Renovating Retirement and Target Practice for Advisors, as well as the author of “Renovating Retirement” and “Two Ways to Be Debt Free”, both available on Amazon Kindle.
About Bobby Alford
Bobby Alford has walked an unconventional path to becoming the CEO of Renovating Retirement. He spent 10 years in the US Submarine force, both as an officer and enlisted person, earning a degree in nuclear engineering along the way. Bobby then joined corporate America and worked for a Fortune 50 company in operations, finance, and sales management roles. After getting his MBA, he began working with military veterans to improve their retirement options. At that point he found Charlie Jewett and learned how to truly impact a person's financial life using the MERIT model of planning. Bobby joined Charlie and now uses his skills to grow their company toward achieving the goal of creating $1 billion dollars of annual tax-Free money for their clients.