Infinite Banking Explained in 12 Minutes by a "Recovering CPA"

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=710jHPmvWXc

Sintesi

TLDRThe video explains the Infinite Banking Concept (IBC), a financial strategy using whole life insurance policies to create personal banks, allowing cash value to grow continuously while taking loans against it. It begins with the importance of selecting the right insurance provider meeting criteria such as being a mutual company, paying consistent dividends for over a century, and supporting IBC-specific policies. IBC uniquely minimizes traditional investment risks by never breaking the compound interest curve even when loans are taken, thus maintaining cash flow growth. This strategy helps in buying assets like real estate or managing debt by using policy loans instead of direct cash withdrawals, ensuring financial stability and tax-free cash generation. By redirecting the freed-up cash flow back into the policy, users can further grow their cash value and achieve financial goals more efficiently. When policy limits are reached, new policies can be created to sustain this growth model.

Punti di forza

  • 🏦 The Infinite Banking Concept (IBC) revolves around using whole life insurance policies to grow personal wealth.
  • 🔑 Choosing a mutual insurance company that supports IBC is crucial for maximizing benefits.
  • 💹 Continuous compound interest growth is a core advantage of IBC, unlike traditional savings methods.
  • 🏠 IBC is effective for purchasing assets such as real estate by leveraging insurance policy loans.
  • 💰 Dividends from mutual insurers enhance policy cash values, supporting long-term financial strategies.
  • 💳 IBC resembles using a rewards credit card—adding a financial step for extra benefits.
  • 📈 Unlike typical saving, IBC prevents resetting cash value to zero, maintaining financial growth.
  • ⚖️ Managing debt through IBC involves using policy loans, ensuring policy cash values are untouched.
  • 📊 This approach transforms whole life insurance into a cash flow management tool, not an investment.
  • 🔄 New policies can be introduced when cash limits in existing ones are met, continuing the strategy.

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    The video introduces the Infinite Banking Concept (IBC), a strategy aimed at helping individuals achieve their financial goals with less risk and in less time. It emphasizes the importance of partnering with mutual insurance companies, as these are owned by policyholders, aligning the company's interests with those of the clients. Mutual companies return profits to policyholders as dividends, ensuring that clients benefit directly from the company's success. The insurance companies should have a historical record of paying dividends, even during challenging times like recessions and pandemics, which demonstrates their reliability.

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    The concept involves creating a 'personal bank' by taking loans against a life insurance policy rather than withdrawing the cash directly. This method ensures that the policy's cash value continues to grow even as funds are used to pay off debts or invest in assets such as real estate. By continually reinvesting and repaying these loans, individuals can maintain and enhance cash flow without breaking the compound interest curve. This strategy is contrasted with traditional methods that often reset cash flow to zero after each investment. By using the IBC approach, individuals can theoretically achieve financial goals more quickly and with reduced risk, setting up a sustainable cycle that supports both asset acquisition and eventual retirement funding.

Mappa mentale

Video Domande e Risposte

  • What is the Infinite Banking Concept (IBC)?

    IBC is a financial strategy using whole life insurance policies to create a personal banking system by borrowing against policy cash values while they continue to earn dividends.

  • Why do mutual insurance companies matter in IBC?

    Mutual insurance companies are owned by policyholders, ensuring decisions benefit policyholders and profits are returned as dividends.

  • What are the criteria for choosing an insurance company for IBC?

    The company must be mutual, at least 100 years old, have paid dividends annually for those years, and support the IBC by allowing certain policies like first-year loans.

  • How does IBC minimize risk compared to traditional investments?

    IBC prevents breaking the compound interest curve, ensuring continuous growth of the policy's cash value, which minimizes financial risks.

  • Can you use IBC for buying real estate?

    Yes, you can borrow against your policy to buy real estate, allowing the property to generate cash flow used to repay loans while the policy value continues to grow.

  • How does IBC help with debt management?

    By taking loans against the insurance policy to pay off debt and then using freed-up cash flow to repay the loan, keeping the cash value growing.

  • What happens when your policy reaches its cash limit in the IBC?

    You can start a new policy once the existing one reaches its cash limit to continue the strategy without breaking compound interest growth.

  • Is the IBC considered an investment?

    IBC is not an investment, but a cash flow management strategy to effectively use money and continuously grow assets.

  • What are the tax implications of withdrawing cash from an IBC policy?

    Withdrawals from IBC policies are typically tax-free, offering a financial advantage during retirement or other uses.

  • Why prefer IBC over traditional banks for financial management?

    IBC offers retained compound interest growth on cash values and more personalized management compared to traditional banks.

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    in today's video we're gonna go over how
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    I be C or the infinite banking concept
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    works and more importantly how using
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    this strategy will help you achieve your
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    goals with less time and with less risk
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    so let's get started with IBC the first
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    character of the play is going to be the
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    insurance company now before I go any
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    further I always give this disclaimer is
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    that I went I went to school for
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    accounting not English or art thus my
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    penmanship and my spelling is horrible
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    so I'm just apologizing for it now now
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    the insurance companies that we work
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    with need to meet for strict criteria
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    the first one is they need to be a
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    mutual company a mutual company just
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    like a stock company but there's one big
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    difference right a stock company is
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    owned by stockholders a mutual company
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    is owned mutually by its policyholders
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    aka you and me in our view this isn't
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    very important for a couple key reasons
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    for one any company their main goal is
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    to create value for their owners so the
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    stock company is gonna make decisions on
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    what's best for their stockholders not
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    the policyholders both the mutual
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    insurance company the owners and the
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    policyholders are the same so they're
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    gonna make decisions that are gonna
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    create more value for us also just like
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    any owner of a company we get the
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    profits in a mutual company what they
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    will do at the end of the year their
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    take their profits set a little bit
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    aside for reserves and then the rest
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    come back to us as dividends if that's
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    the case if we get all of the ensure we
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    get all the profits of the insurance
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    company is it possible for them to
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    overcharge us I would argue no if we're
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    getting all the profits so key thing is
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    they need to be mutual also
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    they need to be a hundred years or older
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    also they need to have paid dividends
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    every one of those hundred years so if
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    you stop and think about it that means
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    they pay dividends during the Great
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    Recession during the Great Depression
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    and also the last time this country or
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    this world has seen a pandemic the
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    pandemic of 1918
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    thus we believe if they were able to get
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    through and be profitable during those
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    very difficult times that they're going
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    to be in the best position for the next
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    difficult time also and finally they
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    need to support the infinite banking
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    concept there are some great insurance
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    companies but they don't support IBC
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    meaning that they don't allow first-year
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    loans or put some restrictions on that
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    so we don't work with them now the next
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    character the play is going to be your
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    policy now these policies are going to
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    be designed very different than than a
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    typical life insurance policy because
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    most life insurance policies are
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    designed to maximize death benefit we're
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    doing the exact opposite we're actually
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    trying to minimize a death benefit so we
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    can maximize maximize the cash value now
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    there's going to be things that you do
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    with your money some are going to be
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    expenses and some are going to be assets
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    and to determine the difference of the
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    two we follow Robert Kiyosaki's
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    definition and he defines an asset
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    brings cash flow to you an expense takes
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    cash flow from you very simple
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    fortunately IBC works for either now
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    let's take a look at some options here
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    now let's say you had some debt you want
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    to use blue
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    okay let's say you had some debt okay
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    let's say you want to invest in your
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    business which we are big proponents of
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    investing in yourself also maybe you
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    wanted to own some real estate perfect
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    okay now what's typically happening is
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    if you want let's kind of look a little
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    deeper on buying real estate you either
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    need to come up with the whole purchase
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    price to pay for in cash or at least a
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    down payment but in essence what you're
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    probably doing is you're saving up money
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    to buy that house perfect and then once
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    you have the amount for the for the
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    house what do you do we drain the
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    account down to zero but then you want
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    to buy another property right or another
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    asset so we do the same thing and then
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    we drain our account but here's a key
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    thing we always end up at zero now if I
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    were to ask you at what point do you
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    want your money to stop earning compound
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    interest hopefully you said never right
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    but the problem is the system you're
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    using right now breaks at compound
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    interest curve every single time well
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    we're going to show you with IBC by
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    adding one extra step we're going to
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    show you how you can never break that
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    compound interest curve it's kind of
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    like a rewards credit card if you can
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    understand or rewards credit card you
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    can understand ibc now why do most
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    people use a rewards credit card well
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    I'll tell you the reason that I do is
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    I'm gonna buy this thing anyways by
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    adding one extra step I get I get a few
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    benefits that's exactly what we're doing
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    with IBC we're adding one extra step and
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    we're getting some extra benefits let's
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    see how this works
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    well now what we're gonna do here is
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    we're gonna create your family bank now
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    let's say that you had some debt what
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    we're gonna do and this part is key
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    we're not gonna take the money from your
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    policy we're gonna take it from the
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    insurance company what the insurance
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    company is gonna do is they're gonna
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    kind of like file a lien against your
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    policy now because we're take we're not
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    using your money we're using somebody
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    else's money we have to pay them
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    interest it's just like an interest-only
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    line of credit at 5% now a lot of people
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    get stuck and get caught up there okay
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    but bear with me we gotta look at the
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    big picture because what's happening to
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    the cash value of your policy it's still
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    growing we never touched your policy at
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    all we just took a loan against it so
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    what we would do we would take that loan
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    proceeds transfer to your family bank
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    then we use that to pay off the debt now
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    that we paid off debt we should have
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    freed up some cash flow that was going
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    to pay that debt we just redirect it to
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    your family bank then we take that
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    payback the insurance company hmm and
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    then they take off the lien now your
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    debts paid off and more importantly what
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    happened to the cash value inside your
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    policy they continue to grow now this
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    works for expenses but this is even
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    better when we're buying assets so let's
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    take a look let's take this to the next
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    level and see how this works when buying
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    real estate so we're gonna do the exact
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    same process we're gonna borrow not from
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    your policy but from the insurance
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    company they're gonna file a lien
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    against your policy
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    then we're gonna take that and buy the
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    real estate that real estate better be
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    cash flowing if it's not cash flowing
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    it's probably not a good investment but
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    what we're gonna do with that cash flow
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    we're gonna take that pay back the
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    family bank then we're pay back the
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    insurance company then they will remove
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    the lien now we have one cash flowing
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    property and what happened to our cash
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    value continue to grow so you know what
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    we're gonna do
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    again we're gonna hit the repeat button
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    we're gonna do that same process over
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    but now we're gonna have to cash flowing
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    properties so then in theory couldn't we
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    pay back that loan the insurance company
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    twice as fast and then we're gonna once
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    we do that pay that second one off you
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    know we're gonna do we're gonna get a
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    third one what we're going to do is
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    we're gonna continue to borrow against
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    your policy to to accumulate more assets
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    and/or get out of debt one thing that
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    will happen though is as we're creating
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    all this cash flow we're gonna try to
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    put it in the policy there was going to
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    be a point where the insurance company
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    will not allow any more cash in it which
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    when that happens that's when we go and
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    get another policy and we just continue
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    this process over and over again and at
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    some point like let's look at the exit
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    strategy there's gonna be a point where
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    you're gonna maybe I kind of don't like
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    using the word retirement but let's say
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    we're gonna work less or start winding
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    down or instead of putting cash flow in
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    the policy we want to start taking cash
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    flow out which is perfect that's what
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    it's for what we would do we start
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    taking some cash flow from our policy
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    and if you didn't already know that will
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    be tax-free and you know what we also
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    have a real estate portfolio so we
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    should be taking the cash flow from all
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    these rental properties I really don't
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    know how to
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    draw retirement well I really don't even
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    know how to draw a period but let's just
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    say if you have this where hopefully are
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    going to have a prosperous and
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    fun-filled remainder of our life now the
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    key thing here is all we did is we never
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    broke the compound interest curve we
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    just continued to use that money to buy
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    more assets and that's why we say IBC or
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    whole life is not an investment this is
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    a cash flow strategy this is just a
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    better cash flow management to allow you
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    to invest in things that you are going
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    to anyways by adding one extra step
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    we're never breaking that compound
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    interest curve and if we could never
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    break that compound interest curve do
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    you think we're gonna be able to achieve
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    your goals in less time and with less
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    risk I hope this was helpful and I hope
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    you learn more and even do some more
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    research about the infinite banking
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    concept go make it a fantastic day
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  • Infinite Banking
  • IBC
  • financial strategy
  • mutual insurance
  • compound interest
  • policy loans
  • cash flow