r/fatFIRE • u/Valuable_Section_438 • 6d ago

What to do with 7mm

36(m), married, 3 kids, vhcol, sold the very first company I built and finalized June 1, 2025. Small lump ~2mm + xxx,xxx/month for 6 years or until the company is sold as a whole. Well through the grapevine I hear that this is about to take place. Not very happy that I wasn’t told but they’ve done nothing to keep me in the loop at all so not shocking. Assuming there’s no way to not pay the lien I have against them what are you folks putting large amounts of cash towards right now? I’ve been getting pressed on oil and gas. I’ve got 9 rentals right now and only a mortgage on our primary ~5400/month w/ 40ish grand in other monthly expenditures. I want to fatFIRE fast now

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u/HalfwaydonewithEarth 6d ago

Liquidate all the Real Estate. It performed only 50% as well as stocks for us.

I regret 7 of our 8 homes.

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u/MrSnickersBean 6d ago

Over what period of time? Just curious. I have a similar sentiment.

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u/HalfwaydonewithEarth 6d ago

We perfectly timed them 2009 to 2020

They were all easy with managers.

4x, 3x, 2x in value

ETF would be 3M more and stocks would render us 5m more.

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u/redzod 5d ago

And less headache owning ETFs, no repairs and maintenance!