What are your investing goals for 2021?

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Max my 401k, Roth IRA and HSA!

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Make $100K

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Max 401K, Max Roth IRA, contribute $500 / mo into brokerage.

Save $3,500 / mo or $42K cash to invest in a third real estate project.

Hit $350K net worth by end of year. Currently at $215K @ age 26.

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@ D1 - First two are rentals. Getting more ambitious and shooting for a flip next.

And yes, I save around $5.5K / mo now, but plan is to get more aggressive next year. I’m at $130K.

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Max all retirement accounts and hit that 50k+ limit.

Continue with disciplined daily investments in ARK and VOO outside of tax advantaged accounts.

Hit $1M NW from $600k over the next 1-2 years.

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I use robinhood. You can set a set dollar amount to buy every biz day per stock or etf. I set it and forget it and it auto executes.

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All in TSLA

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1. Refuel my emergency fund
2. Take a risk and Make some big gainz WSB style to start a company

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1. Reach 6 months in my emergency fund. That’s it.

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Go from 1 to 3/4 investment properties.
Pay for grad school without needing loans.
Continue investing in personal and post-tax accounts.

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Started a family real estate trust, 3 siblings who were in the military will be getting VA loans on duplexes. Fastest and easiest way to expand with low risk.

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Have 80K of cash I've received from death of family member invested over 3 to 5 month period (other chunk of it will be donated).

Continue my annual saving minimum I set this past year of at least 40K a year. My saving rate is around 50% with this number. This past year, I was able to save closer to 50K due to pandemic. We got a 5% raise so I think that 50K again should be an attainable target.

Hopefully hit 500K net worth, majority of it invested by the end of 2021. I will be age 32.5 then. I have about 14.5K in student loans which I don't care to pay off quickly because they are at around 2%.

Really hoping to be able to find property to purchase for investment living/future investment purposes in the fall. Instead of putting cash towards it, I'd like to borrow against my investment accounts which would be at a very low interest rate and use that as a down payment.

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