Welcome to the Financial Samurai Forums! Here you can find helpful links to the forum rules, help guides, access popular articles on FinancialSamurai.com, introduce yourself to the community and say hi.

Do you hope to retire early? Already living the FIRE lifestyle? Ask questions and discuss your favorite strategies, experiences, the pros and cons, and more right here.

Need advice or like to help others? Share your financial situation, ask questions, and get feedback from other members. This is for suggestions and info only, not a place to ask for money.

Finances get a lot more complicated once kids and/or aging parents are involved. Let's try and figure everything out from daycare, to college savings, grade school, elder care and more.

Taxes are our largest ongoing financial liability. Therefore, we need to do our best to understand the latest tax laws and use them to our advantage.

Discuss experiences with investing and managing physical real estate. Talk about market trends, property selection, ups/downs of being a landlord, property management, tenancy issues and more.

Examine and share research on the best real estate crowdfunding platforms, talk about investment strategies, regions, deals, and trends.

This is the place to talk about stock ideas, trading, market trends, your favorite index funds, and other equities topics.

Explore topics regarding muni bonds, treasury bonds, corporate bonds, convertible bonds, interest rate outlook, macroeconomic trends, the Fed, and more.

Discuss alternative investments and derivatives such as private equity, venture debt, venture capital, angel investing, P2P, options, swaps, forwards, futures, royalty investing, and more.

Ask and answer questions on topics such as raises, promotions, career changes, joining startups, and climbing that corporate ladder.

Share small business and self employment stories, chat about the highs/lows of entrepreneurship, discuss side hustles and other moonlighting projects here.

Don't quit your job when you can Engineer Your Layoff! Discuss strategies for negotiating a severance and share severance negotiation success stories.

Cars, motorbikes, electric vehicles and more!

Travel hacks to save money and time. Also travel recommendations to visit or live abroad. Short-term travel and long-term travel.

Everything and anything that's going on in the world right now. The topics should be in some way related to personal finance, motivation, bettering yourself, and helping others.