This is a guest post from Jeff Rose, an Illinois Certified Financial Planner(TM) and co-founder of Alliance Investment Planning Group. He is also the author of Good Financial Cents, a financial planning and investment blog. You can also learn more about Jeff at his website JeffRose Financial. Turning the age of 30, I now reflect back at some of the key choices that I made to put me and my wife in the prime financial situation that we’re in. As a college student, I started to walk down the path