Sounds like you know what you are doing on the personal end. If you are as prepared on the professional end [which I would guess you did first] things should go well. BillR
-----Original Message----- From: "Luther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: 6/18/08 9:42 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] '86 SDL no a/c I have connections for reasonably priced self-employment insurance. I'm figuring in retirement/insurance/taxes all into the picture. I'm not going to quit the night job until I can easily make double in the home repair business. Luther On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:06:28 -0500, Bill R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Luther - Like Kaleb said, I would be certain that you have a source of > medical insurance and retirement. You are into fairly high risk activity, > so even a disability policy would be a good idea. Get back to me if you > think you are going to need it. I fought with my disability company for > three years prior to a settlement. There are some things you will need to > know. SSD is pretty poor also. Had I not had a private pension [very safe > - all funds already in the bank for my full lifetime pension] I would be in > bad shape now. I didn't worry too much about healthcare when I was younger, > now we would be spending about $1,200 - $2,000/month for MD's, cardiac > procedures and Rx if I didn't have very good insurance. We will have out of > pocket of about $1,500 this year instead. If you can make huge $$$ doing > home repair and can put enough away for retirement and will not ever get > sick or injured, then insurance won't matter too much. Seems to me you said > you were single. You could always do what I did and marry someone who has > great family insurance through her work. > BillR > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
