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I was 61, he was 87. In the four previous years, I had lost my mother and both sisters. All four passed from illness, not accident. I retired six months later.

When my FIL passed away, the car was turned back in to the dealership. no living spouse, but his estate was not responsible.

I tend to lean towards used cars. But my wife likes new. Carmax offers a great extended warranty on their cars. Normally, I don't think extended warranties are worth getting. But I have heard really good tings about theirs.

Wow, you are way ahead of me. We do have ring cameras outside and our garage doors notify me if they have been opened. But that's more security features than automation. I would like add a smart thermostat to monitor the temperature in the house fr when we travel.

If you have the time and can do without the car for a week or so, you can still do a lot of work on newer cars. The display screen in my son's SUV failed. The dealer wanted $2600 for the part plus another $600 to replace it. I found a used one online for under $200 and replaced it myself...

I was thinking of lowering my umbrella from$4Mil to $2Mil. I received this response today: Allstate recently changed their underwriting guidelines on the umbrella policy this past October actually. Allstate changed the guidelines to cap the umbrella policies at $1 million. Therefore, all new...

They don't "need" the money. They do have other savings/pensions. But I think they would like to use some of the equity in the house to do more traveling, etc.

I agree. I tend to not get involved. If I found something I thought they could consider, I would bring it up one evening with the small group we have over a beer as something like: Have you ever considered xxx? I would also say my free advice was worth everything they are paying for it.

Im not sure that they should stay. I just want them to be aware of their options. They built their house close to 30 years ago. Their best friends live across the street. (The two husbands have known each other for more than 40 years and do everything together.).

Sorry. I have edited the original question. Basically, Im looking for options that let them stay in this house.

Our good friends and neighbors are thinking of selling their house and moving to lower cost, more senior friends area. One of the driving factors seems to be the amount of money that have tied up in the house. They have no children, so they are not worried about leaving an inheritance. This...

I live about 30 mies north of Ellijay. They did not have any damage. There is a nice rooftop restaurant right in the square the is worth checking out.

I rented through them once. It's kind of like Air BnB. It depends on the renter. Also, you don't have a large company to fall back on if something goes wrong. I would do it again. e sure to take pictures both before and after.

We are in a similar situation. Our son was talking about vacations and mentioned that he can come stay with us for free. He has a room and private bath on a lake, our own dock, boat, jet skis and hot tub. Plus, mom cooks for him. As they say: Money may not buy happiness, but it sure keeps...

Has anyone taken a domestic cruise on a smaller ship? Something like American Cruise lines? My wife and I flew a lot for work, so we are not ready to fly back to Europe. We may do a cruise up the New England coast. Just looking for ideas and opinions.

This is a great area. We are 10 minutes from Morganton. We were fortunate enough to buy a weekend place back in the late 90s. I do worry that the area is getting over priced though.

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.