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Retire On the House: Using Real Estate To Secure Your Retirement Paperback – November 25, 2005

by Gillette Edmunds (Author), James Keene (Author)
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
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Use your home to finance your retirement

Forgot to save for retirement, but bought a house? Saved a lot and also bought a house? Whatever your situation, Retire on the House can show you how to best use your home equity for a long and prosperous retirement.

Focusing on both retirement and real estate, Retire on the House is designed for retiree homeowners who want to use their home equity to finance their retirement. Filled with valuable insights and practical advice, this unique guide illustrates a number of ways this can be done, including:
* Selling your current home at the top of the market, moving to a less expensive residence, and retiring on your profits
* Obtaining rental income from your current home by renting to boarders
* Remodeling your home into units for much higher rental income
* Three options for obtaining cash from your home without selling, remodeling, or renting it
* Reducing or eliminating retirement expenses such as taxes
* Balancing your real estate portfolio by diversifying with other asset classes


Many of today's homes have tremendous value, and with Retire on the House as your guide, you'll discover how to use this value to achieve the retirement you deserve.
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  1. Print length
    288 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Wiley
  4. Publication date
    November 25, 2005
  5. Dimensions
    6.04 x 0.79 x 9.04 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    047173893X
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0471738930
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Use your home to finance your retirement

Forgot to save for retirement, but bought a house? Saved a lot and also bought a house? Whatever your situation, Retire on the House can show you how to best use your home equity for a long and prosperous retirement.

Focusing on both retirement and real estate, Retire on the House is designed for retiree homeowners who want to use their home equity to finance their retirement. Filled with valuable insights and practical advice, this unique guide illustrates a number of ways this can be done, including:

  • Selling your current home at the top of the market, moving to a less expensive residence, and retiring on your profits
  • Obtaining rental income from your current home by renting to boarders
  • Remodeling your home into units for much higher rental income
  • Three options for obtaining cash from your home without selling, remodeling, or renting it
  • Reducing or eliminating retirement expenses such as taxes
  • Balancing your real estate portfolio by diversifying with other asset classes

Many of today's homes have tremendous value, and with Retire on the House as your guide, you'll discover how to use this value to achieve the retirement you deserve.

About the Author

Gillette Edmunds, a leading expert on investing during retirement, has more than tripled his net worth during retirement. He served as the SmartMoney expert on early retirement for the weekly SmartMoney primetime chatroom on AOL and has been a guest on many local radio programs. He currently writes a regular column for SimpleLiving.com, has appeared on NBC Nightly News, and has been quoted in Barron's, Fidelity Outlook, New Choices, ThirdAge.com, MyPrimeTime.com, and WomensFinance.com. He is also the author of three other books on retirement and investing.

Jim Keene, CFA, CFP, is a regional manager for Wells Fargo Private Client Services, who leads teams investing more than $2 billion in real estate, stocks, and other investments for high-net-worth individuals. A money manager for twenty-five years, he specialized in commercial and residential real estate and other alternative investments. Keene is also a California-licensed real estate broker, teacher of CFA review classes, and on the faculty of the University of San Francisco.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wiley; 1st edition (November 25, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 047173893X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0471738930
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.04 x 0.79 x 9.04 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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George_MD
5.0 out of 5 stars Well-written with a lot of research done
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2011
What I liked about this book mostly is that the authors done an extensive research and found a good way to insert its findings to support their theories.
The book was published during the real estate boom, but if you pay attention to the research presented in the book, you shall see that real estate market crush was inevitable.
There is a lot to learn from this book.
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Bronx, NY
3.0 out of 5 stars Good book for mature readers
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2010
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The information is now dated since the housing crisis.
However, some chapters are very informative.
The book itself is in very good condition, for the price.
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Mark Jones
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book on important subject
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2005
If you or anyone you know has questions about real estate and the investment aspects of it - particularly as they get older then this is the book. After reading it, I decided to give copies of it for Christmas to my parents and my inlaws.

It does a great job of laying out the options homeowners have of using their single family residence as an investment. The real life examples of using home equity with a variety of reverse mortgages, interfamily loans and home equity lines of credit were very useful. It helped clarify a dizzying array of options available to me and others as a homeowner who may one day need to use my home equity to assist in retirement. I found this book to be incredibly thorough, well-researched and well written.

I highly recommend it to anyone with a meaningful amount of home equity and to those who advise investors on home investment options.
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Lincoln Walworth
5.0 out of 5 stars I recommend this book to anyone who owns a home
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2005
This is the first book I have seen that clearly describes the many ways one can use home equity as a source of retirement income. With Social Security diminishing in importance, shrinking corporate pension plans, and a volatile stock market, using one's home as an investment can be the cornerstone of a comfortable retirement for many Americans. The authors provide very practical ways for using home equity to enhance retirement, including: renting, selling high and moving to other "value" areas, private annuity trusts, interfamily loans, and sales and reverse mortgages. I like that the authors have invested successfully in residential real estate themselves and that they have advised clients on many of the strategies described in the book. This book is a winner with timeless strategies and loads of advice.
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Marian Lindner
5.0 out of 5 stars A great resource with tons of tips and suggestions.
Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2005
I love this book because it is well-written and market savvy, but it doesn't talk over my head. The suggestions for how best to utilize my real estate equity are clear and forthright. The predictions for new up and coming areas to purchase in are so helpful(and worth the purchase of the book alone.) Also, the various strategies for planning for retirement make this book an absolute must-have for anyone who owns or dreams of owning a home. I highly recommend this book. As far as financial books go, this gets my highest rating!
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S. Hamedanchi
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book. Highly recommend it.
Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2005
This is a great book. Well written and well thought out. I highly recommend it without any reservation, whatsoever.
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