February 2021 - Route to Retire

How We’re Streaming Movies, TV, and Music for Free

The past decade has substantially transformed how we watch movies and TV and listen to music. Streaming movies, TV, and music is a great avenue of entertainment and the technology continues to mature and become better and better. All this cord-cutting has made the cable companies cringe, but I’m happy to see it. They’ve been gouging customers for years now as what I’d say are essentially monopolies across the U.S. Right now, they can still crush you on Internet prices, […]

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Traveling to Ohio in February… Um, Why?!

22 Comments / Travel and Vacation, Geoarbitrage, Life in Early Retirement / Jim @ Route To Retire / February 16, 2021

I started writing this post just one day before we started traveling to Ohio from Panama. By the time you read this, we’ll be in the dead of winter in Northeast Ohio. We’ve left the 75°F daily temps of Boquete to head toward the Akron/Cleveland area where the high has been hovering in the teens lately. It’s snowing off and on as well, but that’s par for the course in February in Ohio. We might be the worst snowbirds ever

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Owning Rental Properties Is Smart, but I’m Out, Jack!

38 Comments / Real Estate, Debt, Investments, Saving, Taxes and Financial Planning / Jim @ Route To Retire / February 9, 2021

That’s right, folks – after owning rental properties since 2003, I’m now completely out of the game! In 2018, I sold the house I had bought as an investment property in 2003. And just a couple of weeks ago, we closed on selling the duplex we had purchased in 2015. Here’s the weird part – if you’ve been following my blog over the years, you know that I’m a strong advocate of owning real estate rentals. Each property can provide

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We Decided Not To Move Back Home to the U.S. Yet!

29 Comments / Panama, Life in Early Retirement, Travel and Vacation / Jim @ Route To Retire / February 2, 2021

I’m excited to announce that Lisa and I recently made the decision not to move back home to the U.S. just yet. We’ve been taking this year by year since we moved here to Boquete, Panama in the summer of 2019. Over the past couple of months though, it looked like our time here was going to be ending in the fall. But I’m happy to tell you that we finally came up with a new plan. We’ll have the

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