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Reverse mortgages can turn your home’s equity into spending dollars

Reverse mortgages can turn your home’s equity into spending dollars

If you are retired, you may have discovered that your current income is insufficient to meet your living expenses, especially if you have unexpected medical or funeral bills.  In many cases, either liquid assets or insurance will be sufficient to meet these needs.  But in some cases, neither of these avenues is available.  Therefore, in order to meet your financial [...]

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Posted by bobrichards - February 23, 2009 at 9:37 am

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If You Can Save in Retirement, Put It Where It’ll Count

In economic downturns everyone tends to tighten their budgets, and that includes retirees. In fact you may find you’re actually saving in retirement after paying your regular expenses. So where should you put this ‘extra’ savings as a retiree? You may tend to just put it into your retirement savings into a bank account. But that makes your money vulnerable [...]

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Posted by bobrichards - February 4, 2009 at 11:56 am

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