Q&As: Questions to ask before parents lend mortgage money to their children; Determined couple pay down big mortgage fast; Bank’s reluctance to extend credit card limit is surprising; Tax adviser thinks tax should have been mentioned last week.
Eating your house: Ways to make use of the value of your house in retirement — Comfort for struggling younger savers?; Sell and buy smaller, but…; Various ways to share your home with others; Getting a break on rates; Reverse mortgages a.k.a. home equity release — a good idea?; FOLLOW-UP from last week to listener’s question on how to buy shares.
Q&As: A company that promises way too much. Steer clear!; 2 Q&As about how reverse mortgages might affect government residential care subsidies.
Q&As: Ways to keep a daughter’s partner’s hands off an inheritance if he leaves the daughter; Another provider of reverse mortgages; 2 Q&As on the pluses and minuses of reverse mortgages.
Q&As: Interest-only mortgages have major flaws; Another — good — approach to reverse mortgages; Are the banks ripping us off with reverse mortgages?; Spending certainly didn’t decrease for this new retiree; KiwiSaver contributions flexible.
Q&As: Beneficiary can do well with KiwiSaver — with help from a Buddy; Elderly couple shocked at how fast reverse mortgage is growing; Should reverse mortgage interest rates be lower?
Q&As: The pluses outweigh the minuses when putting kids into KiwiSaver; Some thoughts about reverse mortgages; Alternatives to reverse mortgages; An end of year message.
Q&As: Child’s KiwiSaver account highly unlikely to shrink to zero; Family could do its own “reverse mortgage”; Some downsides of reverse mortgages.
Q&As: Reverse mortgages can work well, if you know what you’re doing; Where to get comparable info on KiwiSaver fees; A parent’s worries about KiwiSaver are probably unfounded.