The Sunday Best is a collection of articles I’ve curated for your reading pleasure.
Expect most of the writing to be from recent weeks and consistent with the themes presented on this website: investing & taxes, financial independence, early retirement, and physician issues.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Presenting, this week’s Sunday Best:
I was a guest on The FI show! Cody Berman and I had a great chat talking about my path to financial independence, charitable giving, curling, and more. Have a listen: From Full-Time Anesthesiologist to Charitable Entrepreneur | Physician on FIRE
The Physician Philosopher asks a different question. Why Aren’t Doctors Rich? Goldberg’s Experiment. Perhaps they’re not interested in moving to Minnesota?
Maybe they’re too busy to focus on their finances. I think many of us feel too busy much of the time, and that’s not a good thing according to The Fioneers. Busyness is Not a Virtue.
If you were too busy to second guess an insurance salesman (no one should ever be that busy!), you might have ended up with some form of cash value life insurance. Grant Bledsoe of Three Oaks Capital guest posts on The White Coat Investor. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Variable Universal Life Insurance (VUL). Note, it’s mostly bad and ugly.
Location independence is something I’m sincerely excited about. Your Money Geek features a couple of nomads who blog at 43 Blue Doors. Meet the Couple Who Used Frugal Living to Retire Early and Embrace the Nomadic Lifestyle
Financial Independence is supposed to make life better and retiring early is a common dream. It doesn’t always go as planned, though, as Chris Mamula from Can I Retire Yet will tell you. Can FIRE Make Life Harder?
A reader reached out to me with a touching, tragic story. I love what they’re doing to honor their son — building a playground. From Aaron’s Playground, What I want you to know about infant loss.
The interview series over at ESI Money continues to feature the stories of millionaires and how they got there.
- Millionaire Interview #116
- Millionaire Interview #117
- Millionaire Interview #118
- Millionaire Interview #119
- Millionaire Interview #120
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Graduating Med Students Have Matched!
It’s always an exciting time of year with St. Patrick’s Day and NCAA tournament time (Go Gophers!) coinciding, but that small detail of finding out where you’re going to live for the next 3to 7 years is kind of a big deal. Match Day this year was on Friday, and I want to say congratulations to all who will be moving on to residency this summer!
I vividly remember opening an envelope and celebrating the fact that I was about to become a Gator sedater about 17 years ago to this day. Before long, I was the proud owner of a one-bedroom condo in Gainesville that I owned for about 12 years altogether.
Renting may be a better option than owning depending on where you’re going and for how long, but if you are considering home ownership and would like assistance with a physician mortgage, I’ve compiled a list of physician mortgage lenders who offer loans throughout the country.
The three main features you will see with most physician loans are:
- No PMI despite a down payment of only 0-10%.
- Special treatment for the student loans (usually that they only take required payments into consideration).
- Will close before you start working by accepting a contract instead of paystubs as evidence of future earnings.
Have an outstanding week!
-Physician on FIRE
Go Gophers!
Unless of course they play the Huskers or Buckeyes!
I was in an early match so “Match Day” was fun to watch but I was already set and could enjoy the experience of others. Go Gophers!
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Thank you to you and everyone else who helped cheer my team on to victory over Louisville in the opening round.
I don’t have high, high hopes for our matchup with Michigan State, but I’ll be cheering on the Maroon & Gold.
Cheers!
-PoF
Go Gophers!
Love to see those 6 talks.
Always look forward to your Sunday Best!
Go…nope, can’t do it…
Ha! Even over a scandalous Louisville?
Enjoying the Sunday Best series – thanks for putting them together!
Go Badgers!
Wait…Go Gophers!
No, really, it’s Go Badgers!!! On Wisconsin!!
I remember when I opened up the envelope for Match Day. Whirlwind of emotions right before the results.
I actually matched at my top choice which was in General Surgery but 2 years later knew that was not the lifestyle for me and switched to Radiology which I am much better suited for.
Congrats to all the newly minted doctors. All those years of sacrifice are about to pay off.
Go Gophers!
Unless they miraculously play against Wisconsin during the tourney.
If that happens, the cheer will most certainly be ‘Let’s Go Badgers’
Great weekly round-up!
Go gophers! (Would have loved to see them play my Hawkeyes in the BIG tourney…but MI had other plans…)
RNB
Thanks for including that great guest post from Mr. 1500!
(And sorry about that Wolverine whupping yesterday. I can’t stand the maize and blue….)
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Thanks for the shout out, PoF.
The webinar sounds fun! And with a power team (Carson and POF), I bet it will be great.
Oh, and Go Gophers 🙂
TPP
It’s an honor to be on your Sunday’s Best feature, and on St. Patrick’s Day nonetheless! Clearly, the luck is with me. Thank you so much for having me on the site. It’s truly appreciated.