{"id":108959,"date":"2026-04-25T10:27:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/when-real-estate-and-side-hustles-didnt-work-one-couple-turned-to-basic-index-investing-it-let-them-retire-in-their-30s\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T10:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:27:23","slug":"when-real-estate-and-side-hustles-didnt-work-one-couple-turned-to-basic-index-investing-it-let-them-retire-in-their-30s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/when-real-estate-and-side-hustles-didnt-work-one-couple-turned-to-basic-index-investing-it-let-them-retire-in-their-30s\/","title":{"rendered":"When real estate and side hustles didn&#8217;t work one couple turned to basic index investing. It let them retire in their 30s."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early retirees Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung, and their son.Courtesy of Kristy Shen Bryce Leung<br \/>\nKristy Shen and Bryce Leung quit their jobs in 2015 and retired in their 30s.However, t\u2026 [+3689 chars]<a href='https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/how-people-achieve-financial-independence-fire-investing-saving-real-estate-2026-4' target='_blank'>read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early retirees Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung, and their son.Courtesy of Kristy Shen Bryce Leung Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung quit their jobs in 2015 and retired in their 30s.However, t\u2026 [+3689 chars]read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_views_count":["2"]},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-108959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-make-money"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}