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BiggerPockets Money Podcast · Friday, August 7, 2026

Couple Open to Risk for Growth, Prefer Real Estate Mix

Katie and Ann are comfortable taking on some calculated risk to further grow their wealth, aiming for a 'stable floor and a rising ceiling.' They also expressed a preference for a balanced portfolio that includes both index funds and stocks, as well as rental real estate, which they are experienced in managing.

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The tape

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Shall I frame that as as I want a stable floor and a rising ceiling? Is that is that roughly the shape of what we're asking here?
Scott Trench
I think that's fair. We are pretty risk on so to speak, so we are willing to take some risk, but yeah, I'd say that's fair.
Katie
And since I'm a realtor too, and having grown up around real estate, I'm very comfortable with the idea of keeping rental properties and managing them ourselves, and acquiring more.
Katie
Heard on BiggerPockets Money Podcast — “Can This 29-Year-Old Couple Retire by 40 With a $2.5M Portfolio?, published Friday, August 7, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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