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I'd really like to hear from someone who has faced the college issue recently, (ideally a state school), and what are the finance "traps" that you can be hit with. I've heard student's personal wealth is used for need based items, but also scholarships as well. And my experience has been that...

I may have poisoned my argument a bit with a overly extreme example. Better examples would be Mortgage Brokers in 2008, IT Workers in 2001, Boiler Room works in 2000, Auto Workers in the 80s, Steel workers in the US. People who were at the peak of their earning potential, and then had the rug...

If you are early retired, is their any way your children could possibly qualify for any of the need based loans (such as Subsidized Loans). From what I recall (as a subsidized loan recipient), is they look at income AND assets owned by the parents. I could be wrong, but it feels most of the...

Hi all, long time lurker, first time poster. One aspect of the pay-off mortgage argument I haven't seen addressed is the "**** hits the fan" scenario for a person who is in the early stages of paying off a mortgage. The scenario is for a 300K house, person #1 has paid 50k of it off, so has a...