My Comment: From time to time you've seen my posts that talk about college money. Helping high school kids and their parents find extra money to pay for a college education has become a passion of mine. I've created a Facebook page, a section here on the blog, and a short internet presentation using a …
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Paying for College
My Comment: The following comes courtesy of Richard M. White, a friend and attorney who is Board Certified in Wills, Trusts and Estates. He sends me ideas from The Wealth Counselor from time to time and this one about techniques to Pay for College caught my attention. Apart from the legal and accounting merits of …
College Planning and Retirement Planning
You can borrow money for college, but you cannot borrow money for retirement. If you are the parent of a child who has yet to become an adult, then you probably understand the pressure that surrounds the effort to graduate from high school, go to college and become a self-sufficient adult. In our society, getting …
CollegeMoneyNow
My Comment: My goals for 2012 include a major effort to first identify and then help high school students and their parents find the necessary funds to pay for a college education. With college costs increasing at an alarming rate, parents are often forced to invade their retirement funds to help pay for college. College …
I’ll Be Back…
This is just a quick post to say there may or may not be anything new here for a few days. I’m heading out to a workshop sponsored by the foundation in Tucson that promotes a process to help high school students and their parents find free money to help pay for college. This is …
How to Plan for the True Cost of College
A key element of my practice as a financial planner and investment advisor is a strategy to help parents and their children deal with the cost of a college education. In addition to this article, click on this CollegeMoneyNow link and find a 10 minute presentation I created to help you understand there is an …
Young Entreprenuers to Watch
Last evening I was invited to attend an event at Buchholz High School. The occasion was the Installation of Officers and Member Induction to the Academy of Entrepreneurship, a magnet program within the Alachua County District School system. In addition, new officers were presented for those students involved with DECA. For those of you unfamiliar …
Bracing for the College Tuition Storm
With the economy in the doldrums and the long-term outlook for the US stock market looking more restrained than it has in the recent past, parents and grandparents are asking my advice about the problems associated with paying for their children’s college education. Fueled by a sense of desperation brought on by skyrocketing college costs, …
Is College a Waste of Money?
I really don't know the answer to this question but it has been asked more frequently than I can remember during the last couple of years. I do know that it takes a lot of money to complete a four year degree, that the traditional sources of funding are increasingly a problem for many families, …
Parents’ College Savings Falling Far Short of Goals
When you finish the comments below, be sure to visit the tab above called CollegeMoneyNow. There you will find a short presentation on this topic that I created to help you solve this problem. According to a study released Tuesday by Fidelity Investments, parents are ill-prepared to meet tuition costs, with their savings likely to …
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