2 Ways to Use Home Equity to Fund Retirement
Tapping home equity gets a bad rap as a retirement planning strategy, but it shouldn’t.
Mark Miller
Mark Miller is a journalist and author who is a nationally recognized expert on retirement and aging. His latest book is Retirement Reboot: Commonsense Financial Strategies for Getting Back on Track. Miller also writes for The New York Times and Reuters, among other publications. He publishes a weekly newsletter on news and trends in the field at https://retirementrevised.com/newsletter-podcast/.
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