Ultimate Vacation: The Definitive Guide to Living Well Today and Retiring Well Tomorrow
By Randy Carver
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With Ultimate Vacation, Randy Carver shares the Personal Vision Planning® process that he and his team have developed and refined to help thousands of clients maintain and advance their standard of living. You'll learn how to define what's important today and create a vision for what the future looks like. Retirement wasn't meant to involve stress or worry about running out of money. With Randy's guidance, you'll come away with a clear understanding of what you want in retirement and exactly how to get it.
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Ultimate Vacation - Randy Carver
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Copyright © 2019 Randy Carver
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ISBN: 978-1-5445-0647-0
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This book is dedicated to our clients who we have the honor and privilege of serving and the pleasure of seeing them achieve their personal goals and vision. This book is also dedicated to the entire team at Carver Financial Services Inc., who collectively service our clients and have refined the ideas in this book. I am grateful for all I have learned from both.
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Contents
Disclaimer
Introduction: Retirement Is Your Vacation of a Lifetime
Part I: Where Are You Now?
1. Start from the Beginning
2. Have You Been Saving?
3. What Is Your Debt Situation?
Part II: Personal Vision Planning
4. Where Do You Want to Go and Why?
5. When Do You Want to Go, and How Long Will You Be There?
6. How Will You Get There?
7. What Is the Right Vehicle for You?
8. What Will You Do When You Arrive?
9. How Can You Enjoy Today without Sacrificing Tomorrow?
10. How Can You Insure Your Trip?
11. You’ve Arrived—Now What?
Part III: Other Questions to Help on Your Journey
12. What about Social Security?
13. Is It Possible to Retire Early?
14. How Do You Hire the Best Guide for Your Journey?
Conclusion: We Nag You because We Care
Appendix A: Find Your Why
Appendix B: Monthly Expense Worksheet
Appendix C: Retirement Planning Worksheet
Appendix D: Comparison of the Different Types of Life Insurance
Appendix E: Essential Estate Planning Documents
Acknowledgments
Randy Carver and the Story of Carver Financial Services, Inc.
About Carver Financial Services, Inc.
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Introduction
1. Retirement Is Your Vacation of a Lifetime
The deal was too good to pass up.
At the least, that’s what Frank and Trish thought when they first signed up for their Caribbean cruise. From the moment they stepped into the cabin, however, they knew something was wrong.
First off, their cabin didn’t even remotely resemble the one in the picture. Second, the in-cabin display said their first stop was Puerto Rico, which was not on the itinerary they had been given. They took their concerns to the crew, but they were no help, insisting that the display was wrong. This didn’t exactly put Frank and Trish at ease, but with little other choice, they headed back to their cabin, and the ship got underway—barely.
As it turned out, the ship was broken. Frank and Trish were stuck in open waters on a ship that could hardly propel itself forward. Not only that, but the crew had lied. The trip was supposed to be to a private Caribbean island and several other ports; the ship was headed for Puerto Rico, and they had saved for a year just for this experience. Eventually, the ship made port—literally crashing into the dock in the process. The crew then asked all the passengers to disembark so they could check the ship and told them to come back around five o’clock.
Frank and Trish returned at five as instructed, and they were immediately told to get on board with the rest of the passengers so they could depart.
How the hell can you leave?
Frank said. You just hit a dock.
Don’t worry, the rest of your trip is going to be fine,
a crewmember said, offering no other explanation.
The rest of the trip was not fine.
Almost immediately after getting underway, the crew informed them that because of the lost time, they couldn’t make any more of the planned stops on the trip—and they would be offering no refunds. At this point, the passengers were in open revolt, openly antagonizing the crew and demanding some semblance of an explanation. Instead, they just got more bad news: the ship’s busted engine had only gotten worse, and the ship wasn’t going to make port in Fort Lauderdale in time for anyone to make their return flights home.
The crew opened up the ship’s Wi-Fi to allow passengers to make other arrangements, book new flights, and find a hotel for the night. Unfortunately, as the passengers soon discovered, it was Bike Week in Daytona—there were no vacancies within a two-hundred-mile range.
Eventually, Frank and Trish found an Airbnb about seventy-five miles away. A few more ship-related fiascos later, and the couple had disembarked and were on their way to the Airbnb. When they arrived around ten o’clock that night, they found themselves locked out. The key code didn’t work, and the owner was nowhere to be seen.
Then the lawn sprinklers came on.
When they finally got into the house around midnight, they found the inside trashed. The beds weren’t made, dishes were everywhere, and nothing was put away. They got a few hours of sleep, and then packed back up so they could make their 6:00 a.m. flight back home—a flight they had to pay extra for, since their original flight was nonrefundable.
Hands down, it was the worst trip of Frank and Trish’s lives, a cartoonishly bad experience that left them and their bank accounts reeling. The worst part is, they first got the idea for a trip like that on the recommendation of some friends.
Not too