{"id":23,"date":"2026-10-10T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/dawnlaceycolumbiarealtor-com\/2026\/10\/10\/critical-retirement-mistake-people-make-in-their-20s\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T09:00:00","slug":"critical-retirement-mistake-people-make-in-their-20s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dawnlaceycolumbiarealtor.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/10\/critical-retirement-mistake-people-make-in-their-20s\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical retirement mistake people make in their 20s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>One key financial lesson that stands out: starting early with your savings can make a huge difference over time. For example, consistently putting $200 a month into a Roth IRA at age 25 can lead to about $1.26 million by the time you\u2019re 65, thanks to the power of tax-free compounding. But if you wait just nine years to get started, you could miss out on more than $1 million in potential growth. Whether you\u2019re planning for retirement or your next move here in Columbia, SC, taking action early truly pays off\u2014both for your finances and your future.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/business\/article317351539.html\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One key financial lesson that stands out: starting early with your savings can make a huge difference over time. For example, consistently putting $200 a month into a Roth IRA at age 25 can lead to about $1.26 million by the time you\u2019re 65, thanks to the power of tax-free compounding. But if you wait [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":535,"featured_media":24,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawnlaceycolumbiarealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawnlaceycolumbiarealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawnlaceycolumbiarealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawnlaceycolumbiarealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawnlaceycolumbiarealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawnlaceycolumbiarealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawnlaceycolumbiarealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawnlaceycolumbiarealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawnlaceycolumbiarealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawnlaceycolumbiarealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}