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We recently moved from an urban area to a somewhat rural area. For my wife and I, it is great. Although it does take some getting used to. However, I would be concerned about your son. Will he get any social interaction with people his age?

I can relate. We bought our current house from the daughter of the original owner. She was having a yard sale and I told we we wanted to move to this street. No Realtor and a one page purchase and sale. (We moved from eight houses away on a busier street.) After 15 years and a major...

Discount tire is buying Tire Rack, so I don't know what that means price wise. I tend to get most ofmy tires at Discount Tire and specialty tires from Tire Rack. Link to the article if anyone cares...

Time shares are like a lot of other consumer goods. If you buy new, you pay the depreciation. My father owned 48 weeks of time shares in Florida. He bought them for net to nothing. Never more than $1,000 . He would stay for 12 weeks, then rent out the others. The rents covered the...

I have this in my car and I love it.

The timing of this topic could not be better. I have worked my wife since we got married, that when I retired, I was going to have a car that was strictly a toy. I am in the process of building a 3 car garage at our retirement home now. My struggle now is what togetherness as a toy? I have a...

We had to use ours when my son, who was in high school at the time, hit someone who ran a red light. The other driver sued us. With a high limit policy, I let the insurance company hire the lawyer to defend my son. (He was driving my car and completely in the right.)

My father also retired at 62. He and my mother raised three of us on one pay check. He passed last year with a little more than a million in his estate. As one of his grandson's told me after his passing: "He taught me how to be cheap.

My father recently passed and a rental condo that he owned was just sold. I am using those funds to pay for. garage at our retirement house.

I don't post much on here, but since my accounts are dropping rapidly, I thought Should. We have been planning a major upgrade to our weekend home with the plan to make it our primary residence. With Covid, we have been dealing the start of the reservations. But two weeks ago, the heavy...

We have had a weekend home on Lake Nottely in Blairsville for a little over 20 years. I finally retired this past year and we re in the process of upgrading the house to be our long term home. The area has taken off over the past year. I think properties are over priced. I considered...

I am finalizing my father's estate in Massachusetts. Since he had set up all of hs investments with beneficiaries, the only real item to deal with was one piece of property. Due to Covid, it took close to a year to settle, but the legal fees were just under $4,000. I thought that was...

I had a similar situation years ago. It was a first montage and the offer was very low. I turned it down and continued to collect the payments for years until the owner sold. 5% is a nice income.

Something else to think about: My father had always supported my younger sister (even through her 50's) and my nieces and nephews. (Their mother, my older sister passed about 5 years ago.). My father made it clear to me and through his will/trusts that he felt he had helped out both my sisters...

My father decided to buy life insurance instead of LTC insurance. His thoughts were that he knew he would die. But did not know if he would need long term care. In the end, My mother needed about $50,000 in non-covered care during her last year. My father, who passed last year, never needed...

I retired in 2019. My current director was happy to see me go and was getting twisted that the company president was taking so long to say how much I had done for the company. Just take it as a sign that you made the right choice.

My son t boned someone when they ran a red light and was sued. The first thing the lawyer did was research son on social media. I’m sure if that had been his video it would have shown up in court. On thing my son was taught at an early age: don’t post anything you don’t want your mom to see.

Also be realistic about when the kids are actually off the payroll. We have a son in college, but I am assuming we will still help him get on his feet after graduation. We are fortunate that we can do that and retire. Plus he has been on a scholarship so we saved a lot of what we would have...

Although it cost more originally, and cost a bit more for maintenance, I still have my 2007 BMW. Bought it used in 2010 with30,000 miles. My son learned to drive in it and it was his first car when he started college. I still drive it any where I want to go. It has 172,000 miles on it now...

I retired last April. I gave 6 weeks notice on a Monday. On Thursday, the head of another group asked to talk with me. He offered me a part time consulting role. 16 to 20 hours a week. 95% from home. It has worked out great. Unfortunately, I have done so well, that the budget for the...

Yes. Scam.

I had a similar option when I retired six months ago. I was offered a part-time hourly position with an average work week of 20 hours a week. So for, the good outweighs the bad. I make about half what I did before, but I work from home (or where-ever.). I have some scheduled calls, but about...

YRBO is just a listing service. Be very careful. We rented a summer place for our son that turned into a disaster. It was supposed to be a small cabin on a “country estate”. It ended up being a converted storage shed with no lock on the door, no outdoor lighting and no driveway. He never...

Those that have one, any concern about theft? If it’s another thing sitting on the dash, it seems like another reason for someone to break in.

The same for me. My father thinks I have changed jobs where I have flexible hours and work from home. Between a sister, nieces and nephews, I have enough people who would expect a hand out f they knew.