how to retire in 15 years as a college grad

Basically get your 3 (or 4) rental properties as “owner occupied mortgages” (you may need a good job for this, or possibly to even rent between properties, as you rent out yours).  Then move into your “humble respectable” long term home.  Then do nothing, then in 15 years, refinance those rental properties (assuming interest rates are low).  Then the cash flow might be high enough for you to retire on.  Woot!

Possibly pay off your “retirement house” while you’re at it?  Or sell your current house, move to one cheaper (ex: different city)?  Or possibly save up “20% downses” while you’re waiting for it, or possibly move into a duplex yourself (at 15? during that whole time?).  Or possibly pay off your house, or pay off some of the rental properties (if you can’t refinance, for instance).

Possibly read “your life or your money” which says you can downgrade your lifestyle to retire.

Wait a minute, this is actually similar to the other stuff I was working on…it turns out that “retirement” in itself is not a good goal.  You might get there and still feel lonely, pointless.  You better have a good (selfless)”goal in mind” for *why* you want to retire, or what you’re retiring “to then do”.  And it’s entirely possible that you can start on said goal *while you’re still working* so early retirement may not be the panacea…

People report feeling empty/listless when they retire early (Kris Krohn apparently did, the “4 hour work week” guy has pointers on what to do when you feel empty after freeing up all that time per week, some other blog entry/post mentioned it…the “extreme retirement guy” doesn’t seem to be all that focused on something else now that he’s retired.  You need this other focus in your life…

macports woe

checking for Tcl package directory… /opt/rdp_project_local/lib/tcl8.5
checking whether tclsh was compiled with threads… no
configure: error: tcl wasn’t compiled with threads enabled

meant “you can’t install macports with another macports’ bin in your PATH”

ref: http://guide.macports.org/#installing.macports.subversion “temporarily remove”
Roger-Pcks-MacBook:base rogerdpack$ export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
Roger-Pcks-MacBook:base rogerdpack$ ./configure –prefix=/opt/rdp_project_local_test –with-applications-dir=/Applications/rdp_projects_test –enable-readline

macports mplayer universal i386 build

this is tricky

basically

:info:build ld: warning: in /opt/rdp_project_local/lib/libpng.dylib, file was built for unsupported file format which is not the architecture being linked (i386)
:info:build ld: warning: in /opt/rdp_project_local/lib/libz.dylib, file was built for unsupported file format which is not the architecture being linked (i386)
:info:build ld: warning: in /opt/rdp_project_local/lib/libjpeg.dylib, file was built for unsupported file format which is not the architecture being linked (i386)
:info:build ld: warning: in /opt/rdp_project_local/lib/liblzo2.dylib, file was built for unsupported file format which is not the architecture being linked (i386)
:info:build ld: warning: in /opt/rdp_project_local/lib/libmad.dylib, file was built for unsupported file format which is not the architecture being linked (i386)
:info:build ld: warning: in /opt/rdp_project_local/lib/libtheoradec.dylib, file was built for unsupported file format which is not the architecture being linked (i386)
:info:build ld: warning: in /opt/rdp_project_local/lib/libogg.dylib, file was built for unsupported file format which is not the architecture being linked (i386)

I uninstalled (–force) then reinstalled zlib, then disabled these particular dependencies. my guess is that somehow my attempt to get macports to rebuild these “right” had failed…

https://github.com/rdp/mplayer-svn/commit/2fed4ab9eecd36cb1c11505b73cb8a0e757938a9