Does it really matter? No wonder what I told you, your attitude still would be '**** him for planning ahead'.
Actually it don't matter to me. But I was correct wasn't I?
If not, you would say that you won it big at a casino and retired. That you had a great manufacturing company that you sold for a fortune. That you smuggled pot from Mexico. etc etc.
You the one posted up how great you were in being able to retire so comfortably at 55.
Others may want to emulate your actions. But IF you won't or don't say what your job/business/luck actually was,
how can anyone learn to retire at 55 (like you did) if no one tells them how to do it?
But I am betting on Real Estate. LasVegas was a hotbed of fraudulent lending and massive numbers of foreclosures on new or nearly new homes. Entire neighborhoods went belly up. Which left a lot of real estate that could be picked up dirt cheap. And if you timed it right, you could of retired at 55. With a great home for a cheap price.