Everything Personal Finance in Your 20s and 30s
Erase Your Debt, Personalize Your Budget, and Plan Now to Secure Your Future
In addition to writing personal finance articles as About.com's Guide to Financial Planning, I've also written two personal finance books, described below.
If you've ever browsed through the personal finance books in the bookstore until your eyes glazed over, without finding a book that covers the basic topics you want to bone up on without losing you in the first few pages, I feel your pain.
I read dozens of personal finance books each year, and only come across a few that I feel compelled to recommend to someone who just wants to understand the basics and get his or her financial life in order. That's why I wrote Everything Personal Finance in Your 20s and 30s, which covers the most important issues in personal finance in a clear, concise, easy-to-understand manner. Please let me know what you think.
The book covers:
- setting goals
- successful budgeting
- the secrets to saving money
- banking
- credit cards
- digging out of debt
- other credit issues
- student loans
- work and career
- housing
- buying a home
- mortgages
- cars
- marriage and family
- unmarried couples
- minimizing income taxes
- investing
- retirement
- insurance
- estate planning basics
My second book, "1000 Best Smart Money Secrets for Students," published in August 2005 by Sourcebooks, Inc., is a personal finance guide for college-bound high school students, college students, and the parents of college students. The book is filled with short, easy-to-read tips on how to graduate from college without a mountain of debt.