Grandpa Economics & Your Future — You Have NO Future Via Grandpa Economics
Posted @ 2:18 pm - Filed under Real Estate Investing, Purposeful Planning, Retirement, Lunch With Mom, Retirement Income
Just ask Audrey Davison about the reality of her future. She’s been living it in real time, and it’s not what she dreamed up for all those years of sacrificing. It’s what I’ve been calling a life sentence for years.
Here’s her story. As you finish reading this post, keep asking yourself what you’re doing differently than Audrey did. How many sacrifices did she gladly make in order to pay off her mortgage?
If her story doesn’t move you to action, nothing will. Her life is real time empirical evidence of the tragic results of using Grandpa Economics as a template for your retirement Plan. 
Set aside some alone time to contemplate this New Year’s Resolution: I will take full control over my retirement plan by constructing a Purposeful Plan. I will construct this Plan knowing I’m the only one who can ensure a magnificently abundant retirement.
Audrey Davison has lived in Greenburgh New York for 43 years, and doesn’t wanna move. Until recently she was living out her retirement, which included a fully executed Plan taken verbatim from Grandpa Economics OR How To Turn Your Dream Retirement Into A Nightmare Life Sentence.
Audrey will be asking dozens of strangers each day if she ‘may help them’, while working for less than half of what my college student daughter makes for watching toddlers. She’s working for Greenburgh to pay off past due taxes on her home — the same home she’d worked and sweated to own sans debt. Free and clear. Without mortgage. No monthly loan payment.
Her Social Security check is a paltry $643 a month. She’s been forced to take out a reverse mortgage to make ends meet. Greenburgh has offered her a receptionist’s job at a pay rate of — no
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