Whether it’s real estate or the stock market, the common retirement strategy is to buy early and let the value of your home or your investments grow over the long term. But what if your home’s value, or that of your shares, has increased so much you’re afraid of a massive tax penalty if you cash in? Picture someone like Shane. He and his wife have lived in their home near Dallas for 35 years and paid it off. In that time, it has increased in value by $300,000. Must Read They’d like to sell their home ...

How should people be thinking about money when it comes to making investments. >> One of the biggest things with money is that I think most investors want to be long-term investors. Is if you ask them, are you a long-term investor.They'll tell you yes. The majority of investors will tell you that. But then if you actually ask them what long-term means, like what what's what's the time horizon we're talking about.A lot of them will tell you one year or in practical terms, it's a year or less than a year. And ...