Forward Thinker

How this flight attendant saved up enough for a two-bedroom condo and early retirement

- ANDREA YU

Charles Parreira is a 43-year-old flight attendant. He's paid hourly and brings in roughly $95,000 a year. In 2010, he bought a one-plus-one-bedroom, one-bathroom starter condo at Lansdowne and Dupont for $189,000, which he later sold for $530,000. Breaking into the market that early helped him pay for his current condo: a two-bedroom, two-bathroom unit at Galleria on the Park in Wallace Emerson, which he purchased in November of 2019 for $705,000. He considers it his forever home and hopes to retire here in his late 50s.

REGULAR EXPENSES

Mortgage: $1,500 a month.