The decision about your parents' house usually gets made by a fall, not by your family. Tuesday's blood pressure pill slips into Wednesday. Two on Wednesday, none on Thursday, dizzy, down. Now the house, the money, and the care are one rushed d...
Every family I work with eventually asks me the same question: how do we keep Mom in her house without draining every dollar she has? That question is exactly why I sat down with Christina Harmes of Barrett Financial Group's Reverse Mortgag...
A house worth millions on paper still cannot pay for a broken window, a new roof, or a rising utility bill. That gap is exactly where so many families get stuck.
I sat down with Mitchell Kraus of Capital Intelligence Associates to talk about...
What if the biggest obstacle to building wealth was never the numbers, but the guilt?
Most people walk into a financial planner's office assuming it's about spreadsheets and stock picks. The real reason people stay for years usually comes down...
Estate planning isn't just about preparing for death; it's about making sure your loved ones don't have to deal with California's default plan. In California, every adult automatically has an estate plan. If you haven't made one, the state has ...
Adding a child's name to a property deed seems like a simple, loving gesture. I get it. But for most California families, that single act is one of the most expensive estate planning mistakes you can make. According to the State Bar of Cali...
The phrase "reverse mortgage" used to terrify people. My own mother had one. It was one of the best decisions she ever made. So I invited someone who could separate the myths from the math.
In this episode, I sat down with Janice Cohen o...
Most families don’t think about elder care planning until something forces their hand. A fall. A diagnosis. A phone call in the middle of the night with no roadmap for what comes next. I sat down with Carolyn Rosenblatt of AgingParents.com to...
Choosing a place to care for an aging parent is one of the hardest decisions a family will ever make, and most of us walk into it not knowing what to ask.
In this episode, I sit down with Ben Yeroushalmi of Yeroushalmi Law elder abuse attorn...
Few financial topics make people flinch the way reverse mortgages do. Mention one at a barbecue and half the table scatters, convinced it is a scam that takes your house.
In this episode, I sit down with Don Graves of Housing Wealth Institut...