Adulting Is Easy: Making Personal Finance & Real Estate Easy · Lauren K Aumond

AIE 187: What if You Can't Pay for College and Save for Retirement?

·33 min·3 clips
A father with four kids faced a $560,000 NYU bill—discover how he balanced it with retirement.
Lauren interviews Brad Baldrige, a CFP, about balancing college funding and retirement planning, covering strategies like late-stage planning, financial aid, and estate planning mistakes. They discuss real-life examples, such as a family facing a $560,000 NYU bill and inheritance errors affecting college costs, offering practical advice for parents.

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College can be borrowed for; retirement cannot.

The episode treats the pressure of paying for college and saving for retirement as a practical family tradeoff, not a moral puzzle. Lauren and Brad Baldrige keep the focus on decisions parents actually make, especially how easy it is to let children's costs take priority while…

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When college costs start threatening retirement.

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