It's Brian Preston, the money guy, restoring order to your financial chaos, retirement,

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You've got financial questions, he's got financial answers.

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Okay, Jason has a question he asks, my dad is over 60 and is very far from his retirement

goal.

He's gotten his savings rate as high as he can, but he's hesitant in getting help from

a financial planner.

How can I convince him and should he convince him?

That's one of those things where it really depends upon what's the why and how close

are you with the goals?

The biggest thing I heard Jason say is that he's far from his retirement goals.

We love fee-only financial advisors.

It's one of those things because the conflict of interest is tried to minimize everybody

as a conflict of interest that works in anything finance.

If you can try to minimize somebody trying to sell, your father who you've already described

as being far from his retirement goals, you don't want them going to somebody and they

start pitching life insurance and other things because that's not going to speed up your

journey to building wealth.

It might make sense to find somebody to measure twice and figure out how close are we

to the goals.

I really think it's not something that I try to because I know a lot of people we

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