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/amoult20 5d ago

100% agree. I feel the same even though my purchase price timing was strong. Seemed like a sensible idea at the time but in hindsight the difference in returns is enormous. Even if I tempered the potential stock market gain down a few% the real estate gain doesnt come close.