Chip-Stapleton-2-What is your recommendation for the best place to invest proceeds after selling your house
Video Transcript
If you've just sold your house and you have those proceeds, really the best play thing to do is gonna depend a lot upon your situation. Are you or did you just retire? Are you close to retirement? What is your time horizon?
Are you gonna buy another house? How much of those proceeds do you wanna put towards that next house? There's so many different questions that come from that just one question to help give a good answer. For an example, say you just retired and you have all these proceeds for a house because you're downsized.
Say you sold a five hundred thousand dollar house, you bought a three hundred thousand dollars you have these two hundred thousand left over. It's gonna come down to what is your cash, what are your cash flow needs in retirement?
What are your expenses?
And what are the what's the delta between there? Can we use that two hundred thousand dollars to create more income for you? Maybe that is using some type of laddered bond program where we buy a series of bonds with varying maturities, one year, two year, three year, to create some income to close that gap. So you can actually live your life and retirement the way you want to.
If you're younger, say you're my age, I'm thirty seven, then where I would recommend is gonna differ quite a bit. So maybe that will go into something that's more high risk, looking more small cap value stocks, which over time have a higher potential for return, but also have a lot more risk. So in the short term, you could lose money like this year, small cap value has taken a large hit just like everything does. But over time, over ten, fifteen, twenty, thirty years, history has shown that it has made up those small downsides that happen every now and then.
