Your Retirement Reset
eBook - ePub

Your Retirement Reset

How to Convert Home Equity into Financial Security

  1. 277 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Your Retirement Reset

How to Convert Home Equity into Financial Security

About this book

Retirement has changed, and the old playbook no longer works. Your Retirement Reset will shift the mindset for retirees from fearing financial insecurity to embracing the resources available to them by wisely utilizing their hard-earned assets, including the equity in their home, to create the one thing every senior is searching for: guaranteed, predictable income they can rely on for life.

Imagine a world where retirees enjoy their golden years with financial independence, dignity, and a home of their choosing, free from the stress of outliving their savings. For those with the means, that is the reality. For many other seniors, that life is within reach, but achieving it requires solutions for unprecedented challenges:

  • longer lifespans
  • eroding purchasing power
  • vanishing private sector pensions
  • a desire to age in place and damn the torpedoes

Consider this: 75 percent of Canadians over 55 are homeowners, and 90 percent want to age in place. Yet most experience FORO — fear of running out — and dread their options: downsizing, renting, or moving in with family. Each means sacrificing the very independence and dignity they've worked a lifetime to achieve.

Your Retirement Reset offers a clear, modern roadmap through those challenges, showing readers how to use all their assets, including home equity, to build a retirement that actually works. After decades in the financing industry, Susan Pimento recognized a critical gap: We're taught to save but never to strategically spend our hard-earned savings — including the equity in our homes.

This book rewrites the retirement rulebook. It helps you assess your unique needs and provides plans to safely convert home equity into financial security. Through real-life examples, it offers practical strategies to mitigate FORO while balancing retirement security with legacy goals. And it guides families through the difficult but essential conversations about aging, finances, and independence that too often get avoided until crisis hits. Your retirement deserves a reset. This book shows you how.

Information

Publisher
ECW Press
Year
2026
eBook ISBN
9781778526282

Table of contents

  1. Advance Praise for Your Retirement Reset
  2. Introduction
  3. Chapter 1: Retirement—This Is Not the Way I Thought It Would Be
  4. Chapter 2: Dealing with FORO
  5. Chapter 3: Are You a Fit for a Reverse Mortgage?
  6. Chapter 4: Is Borrowing from Your Home’s Equity Right for You?
  7. Chapter 5: How to Have the Necessary (and Sometimes Difficult) Conversations
  8. Chapter 6: Prudent Spending in Retirement
  9. Chapter 7: Retirement Paycheque Planning
  10. Chapter 8: Good Advice Is Priceless
  11. Chapter 9: How to Detect Fraud and Avoid Scams
  12. Chapter 10: Mortgage Fraud—A Growing Threat for Homeowners
  13. Chapter 11: When Technology Turns on You—The New Face of Financial Fraud
  14. Chapter 12: Giving While Living
  15. Chapter 13: Behind the Curtain—What Really Happens at Lenders
  16. Chapter 14: Pre-Retirement Financing—a Solution for Short-Term Needs
  17. Chapter 15: Trading Equity for Pension Income
  18. A Few Final Words and Next Steps
  19. Appendix I: Financial Questionnaire for Retirees
  20. Appendix II: Special Services to Protect Against Fraud
  21. Acknowledgements
  22. About the Author
  23. Copyright

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