I am trying to retire in the next 18 mos and although I am not 60 yet I am struggling with what my collection will look like going forward. I realize with the current cost of games that I cant keep buying them and wanting to retire at the same time. I also am limited on space and thought about buying a bigger house so I can have a bigger collection but not sure that will make sense either. I currently have my games in my air conditioned garage but I am out of space. I need to have my games in a confined game room as I dont like them spread across the house.

I was thinking about swapping my AFM for a DP Premium and I have a ACNC on order. I was also thinking about trying to sell my spot on the ACNC to save money and also I find my pinball skills are not getting any better as I get older and wondering now if ACNC will be too hard. I have a hard time trading out games (not sure why.

How are other in retirement or getting older dealing with their pinball collection? Do others start finding some of the games getting harder?

Yea - that is good advice.

Buying the bigger house was not all pinball related. I wanted a bigger backyard. My current backyard is mostly taken up by a pool. When I bought the house I had an older dog that passed away and now I have 2 dogs (Collie and Sheltie) that are 1 yr old and I would like a bigger space for the to play. Also wanted to go from a 2 story to a 1 story. My current house is pretty nice in a gated community but it needs an updated Mstr Bathroom and hurricane window/shutters. By the time I put everything into it I probably could buy a house out a little more west of the ocean for not much more money and while I was at it could have a better game room.

May I ask how much something like that costs? I actually could build something like that at my Mom's house who lives on 1 acre. My mom actually already stores my boat and camper at her house now.

I was never really sure what part of California you lived in but I moved from San Diego and bought a house that was a little bigger than my San Diego home for 1/2 the price in Fl. That was one of my biggest pieces to my retirement strategy. I think San Diego is nicer but South FL is not bad either. Also no state tax here.

Yes, i noticed in the last picture it looks like a rented unit. I would be more interested in learning how much it cost for a stand alone unit.

And to think I already thought Redding was in the country.... but I agree there is something for having some space between the houses. I used to want to be so close to everything but now 1 acre of land sounds nice.

I guess my other piece of information is that my house with all my pins is in Palm Beach Gardens, FL and I work in Orlando, FL. So I go to PBG on weekends only and have an apartment in Orlando. So, I could sell the PBG home and put my stuff in storage for a 8 or 9 mos while the house is being built and save on the mortgage during most of that time. I know I could also rent the house out which is what I did for a year but that was really a PITA with the renters and the renter was a doctor. I don't want to go through that again.

Don't worry about me, I planned all my working career for my retirement.