Posts Tagged ‘reverse mortgage’
Why Home Equity Matters
Why Home Equity Matters Why Home Equity Matters. Home equity—the current value of your home minus your mortgage balance—matters because it helps you build wealth. When you have equity in your home, it’s a resource you can borrow against to improve your property or pay down other high-interest debts. However, it’s also volatile because home…
Read MoreReverse Mortgages Well Suited to Aging in Place Issues
Housing Experts: Reverse Mortgages Well Suited to Address Aging in Place Issues The Reverse mortgage program can be a very valuable tool for addressing issues related to aging in place in the United States, as well as circumventing some problems related to the spread of COVID-19 in senior housing and nursing facilities. However, some issues…
Read MorePartial Retirement and Reverse Mortgages
Partial Retirement Should be Embraced Through Reverse Mortgages Written by Jack Guttentag- The Mortgage Professor. Partial Retirement: An Inevitable Trend That Needs Support. People are living longer but they are not increasing the accumulated wealth needed to support a longer life of retirement. On the contrary, the swing from defined benefit to defined contribution pension…
Read MoreRetirees Make the Most of Your Home Equity
Retirees Make the Most of Your Home Equity A home equity loan or home equity line of credit may be perfect for your retirement finances. But don’t delay; a fee increase is coming. A debt-free retirement has been the ideal scenario for so long that older adults often overlook a valuable financial resource: their home.…
Read MoreWhy is it always a goal to put aging loved ones on Medicaid?
Why is it always a goal to put aging loved ones on Medicaid? I’m asking this question, because I constantly see articles and receive advice from family/financial/ estate planning about getting Medicaid coverage, and how to “protect” the aging’s assets so they can qualify for Medicaid. Here’s my question, if your loved one spent their…
Read MoreRetirement Planning Tool
Why a Reverse Mortgage is worth considering more now than ever as a retirement planning tool. During our COVID-19 lockdown, my wife returned to an old hobby and set up a jigsaw puzzle on our dining table. Four-hundred and ninety-nine pieces and quite a few hours later, she learned she was missing something. Disappointing, right? We…
Read MoreTalk About Your Money
With Adult Children Home, Now’s the Time: Talk About Your Money. Riding out the pandemic with family presents the perfect chance to lay it all out: priorities, account balances, end-of-life directives. For far too many families, financial planning is akin to scheduling dental surgery. The prospect of pain and discomfort prompts many to put it…
Read MoreReduced Social Security Benefits
Why some retirees could face reduced Social Security benefits unless Congress acts. The Covid-19 pandemic will prompt an unprecedented drop in one measurement, the Average Wage Index, which is used to determine Social Security benefits. Specifically, people born in 1960 could have lower retirement benefit calculations unless a fix is made. Congressional lawmakers have proposed…
Read MoreStrategic Tax Planning for the Wealthy
Strategic Tax Planning for the Wealthy with Reverse Mortgages Loan officers in the Reverse Mortgage business have ben trying to explain this to financial planners for some time now. I was glad to find this from Nasdaq this morning. The Tax Cuts and Job Act of 2017 (TCJA) dramatically changed tax law in our country.…
Read MoreHow to Make Your Retirement Savings Last
How to Make Your Savings Last for Decades, According to a 96-Year-Old Retirement Expert Lots of retirement experts theorize about how best to plan for the thirty-plus years you hope to enjoy after hitting 65. When Jack Guttentag — who turned 96 last December — gives advice, he’s speaking from experience. Guttentag, an economist who…
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