If you are renting your condo, it's important to know your condo association's rules and regulations and try negotiating rental fees. Q: I read your column every Sunday. I own a condominium in Virginia and rent it out. I realize condominium associations try to limit renters to make sure they are an FHA-approved building and [...]
Typical investment management fees can range depending on the type of investment, the type of account and the type of investment manager. Q: I am 64 years old, retired, with a pension from a state government. I am considering investing a portion of my IRA funds in a managed portfolio. The proposed portfolio is 83 percent [...]
If you were left with debt after the death of a spouse, gather bills, check credit, talk to the IRS and consider contacting an attorney. Q: My home is underwater, I’m at risk of foreclosure, and I have a deceased deadbeat husband. Add to that that my dead husband liked to sign my name to [...]
If you want to pay the mortgage on a home you don't own, giving home ownership to your family, there are several ways to do that. Q: My parents are divorced and my father would like to sign his half of the house over to my brother and me. The only problem with this is [...]
A reverse mortgage could be a good idea for a homeowner looking to refinance and pay off a second mortgage, but there are some drawbacks. Q: In your recent column in the Oregonian, you attempted to help a retiree’s attempt to refinance. You gave him many ways to contort himself in order to become a [...]
Bruce Japsen, Jeff Rose, Liz Handlin and Amy Crews Cutts join me to talk about recent trends and hot topics in personal finance on the Ilyce Glink Show on October 21, 2012 at 12:00 Central Time on WSB Radio. My weekly show always contains various forms of personal finance advice but today I have invited four [...]
What are your mortgage options after divorce? Try signing a quitclaim deed and refinancing the mortgage so only the homeowner is responsible. Q: If my spouse said in our divorce mediation that our marital home would be her sole and separate property and that she would be solely responsible for the costs and expenses of the [...]
What will happen in three weeks regarding election and the economy? Whether Mitt Romney or Barack Obama is voted in, there's the small matter of the fiscal cliff to resolve. And as usual, providing personal finance advice, real estate advice and consumer advice on the Ilyce Glink Show on October 14, 2012 at 11:00am Eastern [...]
Ilyce Glink show notes from her October 14, 2012 show on WSB Radio discuss the impact of the coming Presidential election and the economy. I am about to say something controversial: it doesn't matter who gets elected because we're not done with the hard times. Despite all the good news out there, I firmly believe [...]
If you have a condo or home that is deeply underwater, you have some options including paying off your mortgage, short sale or foreclosure. Q: With all the creative geniuses in the U.S., like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and the Google guys, why is there not even one innovative, out-of-the-box genius to help people like [...]
