Oh, Behave!
On a recent vacation to New Zealand, my Kiwi friend Martin told me about his father, Frank, an elderly man who, over his lifetime, owned 26 pieces of real estate. I figured Frank would be sitting pretty now, either living off 1) the income and principal of a huge investment portfolio that holds the sales proceeds of all that real estate or 2) a semi-stable income stream from the real estate he didn’t sell. Unfortunately, neither is true. Frank barely gets by, relying entirely on a modest pension income. If he has any extraordinary expense, Martin will be forced to supplement Frank’s income. So how did this happen?
