Harry Gross writes about personal finance for the Daily News.
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Dear Harry: I never discussed money matters with my boyfriend before I got married four years ago. I moved into a house that he owned, and did not find out until recently that he had financial trouble. He has been paying his mortgage every month to a coll
Dear Harry: Back in April, my wife and I attended a meeting of a "travel club." Afterward, we received a card for a three-day, two-night trip to anywhere in the United States. In order to "validate" the trip, we had to send a $100 mone
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Dear Harry: A while ago, my father took a big hit on the sale of one of his stocks. He had been taking a deduction for that loss on his jointly filed 1040 at the rate of $3,000 a year ever since. He died recently. IRS told me that I can continue to take
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Dear Harry: I have a universal life insurance policy that will pay my heirs $100,000 "if and when" I pass away. I owe $21,000 on a credit card, and the bank has retained a lawyer to try to collect this debt. He said that he is in the process of
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Dear Harry: I am the son of a man who recently died after two successive marriages. He had adopted two daughters that his current wife had before her marriage to him. My stepmom, one of my sisters, and I want to sell his house and divide up the money, but there is bad blood between one of my sisters and the family, and she won't even discuss his estate with us. This has been going on for about three months. How can we get the house sold with the least possible cost?
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Dear Harry: I married at 40 and five years later had a son, who is now 7. My wife and I have separated, and I have a virulent form of cancer. I'd like to name my son as beneficiary of my IRA. I do not want my wife to have anything to say about how the money is invested or drawn out. Is there a way to do this?
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Dear Harry: We sure do need health-care reform! I have an "orphan disease" (one with very few victims). As a result, I am often running into problems with my insurance.
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Dear Harry: I hate you! For many years you have warned people against adjustable-rate mortgages. Unfortunately, my wife and I ignored your advice. We went for one with optional payments. That's right. We saw a house that we both fell in love with, and we
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Dear Harry: I have been having a great deal of trouble with a newly refinanced mortgage. I wanted to get a lower interest rate, and I did. The new mortgage payments will save me $171 a month. At the time of closing, I signed a bunch of papers. Among them
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Dear Harry: I have an awful dilemma. My wife is the sweetest person in the world, but she has no concept of the problems involved in going into debt.
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Dear Harry: I have been a user of credit cards for all my adult years. It has given me an opportunity to live a little above my means. I was always able to meet and exceed the monthly minimum payments on a balance that hovers around $13,000. Imagine my anger when I got a notice that my interest rate was going to go to 23.2 percent from its present 12 percent starting in 60 days.
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Dear Harry: I remember you speaking at a seminar year ago where you said that load funds do not perform any better than no-load funds.
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