American family net worth and income has declined significantly as the housing market and sluggish economy devastated assets and savings. Spend a decade or two working hard, paying your bills on time, and salting money away in your 401(k) at work. You’ve been hearing for years that this is the one formula that will allow [...]
Find a good leasing agent if you're looking to lease a single family home or townhouse. Start by asking real estate agent companies. Q: I love your show and your advice is always so helpful! My current lease is up at the end of September, and I really want to lease a single family home [...]
Refinancing a condominium where there is no homeowners association may prove difficult unless the condo is treated as a townhouse. Q: I currently own a cloud condo in San Diego, CA. It consists of four units, all of which are four stories, detached by about 3 inches, no common walls, no common roof, no common [...]
If you can't sell a vacant land, try working with a real estate agent, doing a short sale, or reducing property taxes to sell or lower cost. Q: I purchased about four acres of raw land in Georgia in 2000. The land is in a gated development that I thought I’d retire to. I still [...]
A few decades ago, if you had a job at any given company, you usually had career security—and possibly a pension. That employment setup has been replaced by one in which companies replace workers without too much thought, and the average person is expected to have more than five jobs over the course of a [...]
As teenagers are taking part-time and summer jobs to earn some spending cash and help with saving for college, now is a great time to start instilling some money management skills. Here are some details about paystubs that you can teach your teen as he or she enters the working world. Fundamentals of paychecks Whenever [...]
Greg McBride, Jack Otter, Liz Weston and Fred Glick join me to talk about your money and the economy. And as usual, providing personal finance advice, real estate advice and consumer advice on the Ilyce Glink Show June 24, 2012 on WSB Radio. My weekly show always contains various forms of personal finance advice but [...]
Ilyce Glink interviews four writers and experts in personal finance, real estate, mortgage and the economy on her June 24 show on WSB Radio. Greg McBride, Vice President, Senior Financial Analyst at Bankrate.com Greg McBride at Bankrate.com McBride provides both in-depth commentary and analysis as well as practical advice to consumers. Through Bankrate.com's Money Makeover series, he [...]
The national foreclosure nightmare is moving north, away from the four states that traditionally have accounted for most defaults and toward markets that heretofore have avoided the brunt of foreclosures and the economic and social problems they cause. Here are some foreclosure factoids based on recent data from RealtyTrac that might surprise you: In April, [...]
