Myths about money in retirement punctured
We haven’t saved enough, too many of us retire without financial security, and we may need to work longer to achieve it — assuming we can hang onto our jobs or find new ones. No wonder that workers and retirees are more pessimistic about their future prospects than they’ve been in years.
I bonds are an investment that benefits from inflation
By David Wilkening, Contributing Writer
REGION - Inflation news is almost always grim. But I bonds, a low-risk investment that flies under the radar for...
Flying high: Airstream can’t keep up with demand
Not only are the retro-looking “silver bullet” travel-trailers still being built by hand at the same western Ohio site that has produced them for 60 years, but the company also can’t roll them out of there fast enough.
Heirlooms’ value shifts from sentiment to cash
“Children don’t know what to do with all this stuff, and don’t have room for it, and just get to the point that they throw their hands up and say, ‘This has got to go.’ ”
The ins and outs of reverse mortgages
By Alain Valles
“I heard reverse mortgages are bad” is the response I often receive when I tell people what I do. Fortunately, I don’t...
A new local resource for senior homeowners
By Alain Valles, CRMP, MBA, CSA, Managing Director, Helping Hands Community Partners, Inc.
“If you give it out in slices it comes back in loaves.”
As...
Survey finds Medicare beneficiaries at risk from card-replacement scams
By Mike Festa, State Director, AARP Massachusetts
As a major federal government initiative is underway to issue new identification cards to the 1,289,320 Medicare beneficiaries in...
The top uses for reverse mortgages
By Alain Valles, CRMP, CSA, MS, MBA, Nonprofit Charitable Managing Director
We’ve all heard the words “Reverse Mortgage” but so few have had the opportunity...
2 years after market low, the little guy is back
“It didn’t feel right to be back in until now,” said Richard Dukas, who heads a public relations firm in New York City. “I still don’t want to put all my money in the market, but I believe we’ve come through the worst of it.”
Reverse Mortgage: How to make the right decision
By Alain Valles
Does it makes sense for you to get the newly improved, federally insured reverse mortgage? A decision like this can seem overwhelming....