I thought it was going to be so easy to walk away from my career when I was offered a buyout and early retirement.
This saved me nearly a decade worth of time that I would have otherwise spent inside the zone controlled HVAC of the office.
That was a big part of accepting the buyout. The offer was a good one since I was only losing about 5 percent of the total payout of my retirement by retiring early. Still, leaving the zone controlled HVAC of my office was not at all easy. There was a party and it was nice but then I woke up the next day with nothing to do and nowhere to go. My wife and got out of the central air conditioning of our home to do some traveling initially. And on those trips, we discussed just what we wanted to do with this new chapter in our lives. We have always been such great life partners that we decided to be business partners as well. That’s how we got into flipping houses. Of course, it’s not like it is on TV and we don’t do but one property at a time. Still, there are so many details that come with a big renovation that challenges are guaranteed. We had one at the very end of getting our first house done and on the market. Turned out that ductwork was not going to work with the new residential HVAC equipment. Thanks to our awesome HVAC contractor, we were able to make a quick pivot to a ductless multi split system that saved the day.