57 No retirement account. Self employed. But..
I've always been self employed since my early 20s. Yes, I was always salaried and paid well into the system. I should have planned a little better but coming from a family of latin immigrants, in my days, we didn't really plan ahead, lol. I'm still working in the construction industry as a consultant and hold several licenses but things have really slowed down and I'm thinking of stopping. I have no retirement account but I managed to purchase and pay off 9 rental homes, my personal home, and a commercial property I use for my business. I net about 9k a month from the rentals and my commercial property would probably sell for roughly 1-1.3m. I'm thinking I don't want to be a landlord into my retirement but selling the residential rentals,(est 2.5m), would expose me to huge capital gains. I owe an SBA loan of about 350k that I would payoff with the proceed of my commercial land sale. Besides that, I dont have much debt. I have maybe another 200k in miscellaneous assets and bank accounts. My personal home is paid and worth about 800k. What's the best path forward?