Comments on: Planning to Retire – A Financial Autobiography – Step 1 – How Much Is that Housey In the Window? http://www.goland.org/retire8/ Technology, Politics, Food, Finance, etc. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:37:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tim http://www.goland.org/retire8/comment-page-1/#comment-14699 Tim Sat, 03 Jun 2006 21:59:44 +0000 #comment-14699 Enjoyed your series on your retirement plans. If you haven't had a chance you might want to take a look at "Retire on the House". I found it to be full of a lot of good ideas about leveraging home equity in retirement. I'm not associated with the book (other than this <a href="http://www.reverse-mortgage-information.org/310/retire-on-the-house.php" title="reverse mortgge info" rel="nofollow">brief review</a>. You might also want to check out the notion of "reality retirement planning" which takes into account fact that retirees spend less as they age. Not mainstream thinking by any means, but I think the idea has merit and is overlooked by many. I first came across it in <a href="http://www.fpanet.org/journal/articles/2005_Issues/jfp0605-art7.cfm" title="" rel="nofollow">this article by Ty Bernicke</a> and have even put up a <a href="http://www.reverse-mortgage-information.org/retirement-calculator.php" title="" rel="nofollow">reality retirement calculator</a> on my site. Cheers, Tim Enjoyed your series on your retirement plans. If you haven’t had a chance you might want to take a look at “Retire on the House”. I found it to be full of a lot of good ideas about leveraging home equity in retirement. I’m not associated with the book (other than this brief review.

You might also want to check out the notion of “reality retirement planning” which takes into account fact that retirees spend less as they age. Not mainstream thinking by any means, but I think the idea has merit and is overlooked by many.

I first came across it in this article by Ty Bernicke and have even put up a reality retirement calculator on my site.

Cheers,
Tim

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