Drought and food prices are the topic this week with the USDA's announcement that they have cut the estimates for corn and soybean crops. How will families save money at the grocery store this Fall? And as usual, providing personal finance advice, real estate advice and consumer advice with Ilyce Glink on the Clark Howard [...]
Sometimes there are mortgage payoff fees, including unpaid closing costs. Review your mortgage docs, call your lender or state for more info. Q: My wife and I purchased deeded timeshare about five years ago. Approximately two and a half years ago, we paid off the note to avoid the high interest rate. A couple of [...]
Ilyce Glink offers tips and advice for investing in real estate: plan extensively and be flexible. Q: I just wanted to say thank you, Ilyce. Your over the air advice encourages me and moves me forward in my real estate pursuits. I am a dairy farmer in the Atlanta metropolitan area, milking goats and making [...]
Be wary of companies that will buy your home and rent it back to you - this may be housing scam hitting underwater mortgages. Q: I got your website name from my son who lives in Atlanta, one of your radio broadcast areas. I live near Charleston and haven't had the pleasure. Nevertheless, I need [...]
Would bailing out Main Street by forgiving most residential mortgage and home equity loans help the housing crisis? Or make it worse? We recently received the following letter: Instead of the Eminent Domain proposal in California, how about this: Create the Bail Out Main Street Act 2012. Congress would immediately write and approve legislation to [...]
In The College Solution, Lynn O’Shaughnessy provides an easy-to-use roadmap that you can use to find the right colleges (not just the most hyped) and to dramatically reduce your costs. In this excerpt, learn more about saving for college and your family’s expected financial contribution. Read more about financial aid and your family’s expected financial contribution. The formula does play [...]
Many of us look at our children and wish that they understood our attempts to teach them about money management, from why we’re nagging them to turn the lights off to what that wasted food means for our grocery budget. It’s all about the value of a dollar. We’d like our children to learn about what goes [...]
After paying taxes to the IRS and your state government, the last thing you want to think about is paying even more taxes. But homeowners across the country are facing increased property taxes as cities and counties are filing for bankruptcy and local governments are looking for ways to raise money. According to a recent Rockefeller Institute report, local [...]
We have all heard the warnings: There is a good chance that Social Security will not be available by the time members of Generation X are ready for retirement. I know I’m not counting on it! And if you are even younger? Forget about it. So what are younger workers supposed to live on after they [...]
