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Category: buying a house
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Giving our grown children some of their inheritance now not only brings us pleasure but is a vote of confidence in them.
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A branch of economic theory tells us that spending our hard-earned money–or potential retirement savings–on our grown kids has a whopping pay off: It makes us feel good.
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We are the generation that helps their adult children, even when they’re grown and have children of their own.
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Millennials ought to be moving out and about the country just like we did, but pocketbook issues may be keeping them closer to home.
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Thinking big this holiday? What could be a bigger or better than helping a grown child buy a house.
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There are some lender-bewares when we help our kids with the down payment on a house.
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When their daughter and son-in-law bought a house, the parents helped out–with advice and counseling (both solicited) on the building plans and by babysitting their grandson, especially on moving day. They also helped paint rooms and gave the young couple furnishings from their own house that they no longer needed. Their problem, as they expressed…
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Yes. It's yet another survey on how generous our generation is to our children. This one comes from Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate and keys in on the ways in which we help our children buy a home. According to its December survey, nearly one in five self-identified baby boomer couples had assisted at…
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Whenever we talk with friends about grown kids and money, one connection is a constant. Almost all of us have helped or plan to help our children buy a house. We're the generation that was lucky enough to buy our homes before the infamous bubble and whose overall estates have benefited from the pre-2008 relentless…
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A few days ago, I wrote about a 2011 MetLife survey on boomer parent's spending habits vis a vis their grown children. (Long story short: Most of us want to help our adult children with college tuition; fewer want to help them buy a house.) There's also a 2009 MetLife survey on how grandparents feel…
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