Finance Gourmet Blog

As you may have noticed, we are getting ready to sell our house.  After living in our first house for about 7 years, we’ve been our last two for 2 and 3 years respectively.  The interesting thing is that each time we have made a lot of money.  The past two times we’ve used this [...]

By any measure, the math says that paying off your home is not a smart move financially. Then why is it that so many people see paying off their home as a great goal?
There are three reasons really. One is out of date thinking, the other is a financial myopia, the last one is [...]

Comment on the SEC announcement that it thinks prospectuses are too big.

Whether or not now is a good time to buy real estate depends, as most things do in finance, on time and amount. For example, if you have been renting for the last year or two and have saved up 20% for a down payment and you just found the house of your [...]

Politicians hate to admit that anything is ever wrong with the economy. Even as they pass “critical” packages using the economy as an excuse, they continue to maintain that everything is just fine. Please go on with your life and please, please, please, keep spending your money. Every financial advisor who [...]

One if the most frequent questions I get from people is what kind of insider tips and tricks do I know as a financial planner. Of course, most people don’t want to hear it, and sometimes it can take a while to explain. Today, one of those secrets is revealed over at [...]

On the Finance Gourmet website, the first part of our latest article has been posted. It covers that tough topic of whether or not you need a financial advisor or financial planner. It is unbiased, and subsequent sections will give you all the details you never got so you won’t have to ask [...]