Retirement- keeping busy? Or making an impact?

[James48843]

He been retired since the Covid debacle. I figured that was as good a time to retire as any other.

He first couple of years I did a little radio show on our local radio station. Always wanted to do that, and the station was happy to have me work a few hours a week.


Now I’m planning on trying to start a non-profit, dedicated to help people save up for their first home. I’m looking at a duplex to buy, and then I’m going fix it up, and rent it out at section 8 housing rates, but then take a couple hundred of each tenements rent money each month, and have it invested in the stock market in a kind of “housing account”.
In two years, or three years, they will have built up enough to use it as a down payment on a first home.

I’ve got my eye now on a duplex building. Thinking now is the time to pull the trigger.

What kinds of things are YOU doing in retirement? Travel? Something new?

Let’s hear your story!

 

[nasa1974]

Going on cruises. But I did that with my wife before I retired. She passed from cancer in 2021. Decided to go cruising again and have done a few burials at sea with her ashes. Spending quality time with the grandkids. Playing golf again. Getting in a little bowling. Going to Cedar Point Amusement Park and riding the coasters. Housework. Yard work. Playing video games with my grandson and son-in-laws. Spending too much time on Facebook and going to bed at 2 in the morning. Working on the Family Tree. And of course, watching you guys here.