To supplement cash flow during retirement, a growing
number of senior homeowners are turning to an increasingly popular financial tool called a reverse mortgage.
For one thing, substantial
numbers of senior homeowners don't file income tax returns because of their low incomes.
Not exact matches
One change that may be contributing to the growing struggle for
seniors to make ends meet is the rising
number of homeowners who carry mortgage debt into retirement.
As stated previously, reverse mortgages are advantageous to
senior homeowners for a
number of reasons.
NPR ran a heartbreaking story on Friday about the state
of crisis in which Legal Services finds itself because «the
number of poor people who need legal advice has gone through the roof — more
senior citizens and more
homeowners who lost their jobs» while at the same time there are severe funding cutbacks.
«Since home prices bottomed out nationwide in the first quarter
of 2012, the
number of seriously underwater U.S.
homeowners has decreased by about 7.1 million, an average decrease
of about 1.4 million each year,» says Daren Blomquist,
senior vice president with ATTOM Data Solutions.
In states like Florida and California with large
senior populations, an increasing
number of elderly
homeowners are placing all or most
of their assets — including their home — into a trust for tax and estate planning purposes.
One change that may be contributing to the growing struggle for
seniors to make ends meet is the rising
number of homeowners who carry mortgage debt into retirement.
«There are some very early signs that group
of younger buyers is starting to become
homeowners in greater
numbers, but it's not a solid trend yet,» says Daren Blomquist,
senior vice president
of real estate date firm ATTOM Data Solutions.