How Much is Your Home Really Costing You?
I discussed in my last post, “The First Rule of Real Estate Investing,” that your personal residence is not an investment. Your home should be considered a consumer item just like your car, your washer & dryer, or anything else you buy for personal use. The reason I state this is because of all the […]
Post #8 – Retirement Planning Simplified, Part II
This blog post will provide a simple guideline to estimating what your personal annual savings rate should be in order to reach your retirement nest egg goal. This post is a follow-on discussion of the 4-step process I discussed in my last post, Post #7. If you have not done so already, you should read […]
Post #6 – What can you expect from Social Security and Medicare? Part II
I have done a lot of reading and talked to many professional financial planners about what changes may be coming to federal old age entitlement programs as well as private pensions and state government retirement programs. I will provide the general thinking by experts on what may lay ahead for the old age entitlements and […]
