Welcome to the Jill on Money podcast. It is Monday, November 23rd, just days until Thanksgiving. Mark, what are you doing for Thanksgiving? Will you be cooking a turkey? Mark says they're leaning towards a ham. My girlfriend read something about some place where they are

selling these giant turkey drumsticks. I don't know if you saw this. It's in New York somewhere.

I haven't been going to do some research later. I'm sure that they are, they're supposed to be

moist and delicious and like deep fried it to finish them off. So of course it's going to be delicious, right? Would you want to just do a turkey breast or do you want to, I mean, what do you think? Do you want a turkey sandwich? I'm just kidding. Mark says he's going to go to the bodega and get a boar's head sandwich. I mean, why not? It's a strange

year. I put in my vote, which was I wanted to get a fantastic hot, hot, piping hot pizza pie,

maybe even eat it in the car. I'm getting overruled on that. All right. If you have a question,

let us know. And don't forget, we're bringing you guys on the program.

So let us also know if you are willing to come on the show with us and Mark will arrange everything.

Okay, Julianne writes, I caught the tail end of the program this morning about owning a home long term that has a lot of gains.

She writes, I'm in my early 70s and my home is my retirement.

I've always been self-employed. Listen to this. Purchase the home for 22,000. It's now worth over

500,000. I need advice on avoiding capital gains or having Medicare get my equity should I become

disabled or ill. Thanks, Julian.

Well, I mean, is it your goal to stay in the home and you have no other asset except this?

Do you have any other money? I mean, I'm just wondering if you have any other assets. That's number one.

You may be a very good candidate to look into a reverse

mortgage if you want to stay in your home. In terms of your Medicare, getting your equity,

if you became, it's not Medicare, it's Medicaid. And Medicaid is not taking your house away from you.

Okay. What I would do is this.

I think you need to talk to a fee-only financial planner or an attorney who can talk to you about some of your choices.

But really, a fee-only financial planner, I think, is going to do the job.

Check out napfa.org, napfa.org.

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