Worried About Surprise Retirement Expenses? So Am I. Here's My Plan

I ran into a person I know from the neighborhood last week who's fairly new to retirement, and we got to chatting about life. I explained that I was deep in the throes of sports season and busy as ever shuttling my kids to games and practices. She shared that while things were generally going well, her house was, as she put it, "starting to fall apart."She then proceeded to discuss the almost $40,000 in repairs she's looking at this year. And I couldn't help but wonder how she was going to manage it all.Image source: Getty Images.Continue reading

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Worried About Surprise Retirement Expenses? So Am I. Here's My Plan

I ran into a person I know from the neighborhood last week who's fairly new to retirement, and we got to chatting about life. I explained that I was deep in the throes of sports season and busy as ever shuttling my kids to games and practices. She shared that while things were generally going well, her house was, as she put it, "starting to fall apart."

She then proceeded to discuss the almost $40,000 in repairs she's looking at this year. And I couldn't help but wonder how she was going to manage it all.

Image source: Getty Images.

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