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Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Selling Slowly

Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Education, Business, Investing, How To

4.5811 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Tom and Don tackle one of retirement planning’s most misunderstood tools: reverse mortgages. Using the analogy of “selling your house in slow motion,” they explain how modern HECM reverse mortgages work, why they’ve become more regulated and potentially more useful, and why they may deserve consideration for retirees who are house-rich but cash-poor. The duo breaks down the real costs, the cash-flow benefits of eliminating a mortgage payment, and the tradeoffs between preserving home equity a...

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0:00.0

Your guides to a really great financial future.

0:09.0

Tom and Don are talking real money.

0:13.2

Today's theme is money in small motion. Hi everybody. slow motion.

0:22.3

Hi, everybody.

0:24.1

Slow motion money.

0:25.4

That's what we're going to talk about today.

0:27.2

Slow motion money.

0:29.4

Actually, it's slow motion home sales.

0:31.5

So the best analogy I've ever heard for reverse mortgages,

0:36.0

selling your home in slow motion, basically what is what you're doing. Today we're going to talk about reverse mortgages. If your house rich, cash poor, well, you may want a reverse mortgage these days. I'm Don McDonald. Over there is Tom Cock. This is the Talking Real Money podcast, and it just doesn't get any better than this when it comes to Money Talk. It just doesn't. I'm sorry. I can't. I can no longer be humble.

0:59.9

We're the best.

1:01.1

No longer be humble since about 1985 or something. So yeah, that's true. Yeah. I got my first talk show

1:07.6

and I went, wait, I get a talk show? I don't have to stop and listen. I don't have to be humble anymore. And I'm not. I'm Don. Tom's there. You're there. Thank you for being wherever the heck you are listening while walking your dog. Apparently lots of you do that, Tom says. He's taking a poll. Well, I take everybody I talk to, they're like, yeah, I get up every day.

1:28.8

I walk my dog.

1:29.5

I listen to the podcast.

1:30.5

So thank you.

1:31.2

Thank you and your dog, both of you.

1:32.9

So appreciate it.

1:34.0

Wait a minute.

1:36.7

Either the podcast has gone to the dogs or what do you take your dog out to do and you

1:42.4

listen to the podcast.

1:43.6

What does that say about us? It's about us? I think we can say that. The podcast. Yeah, there you go. Okay. Anyway, today we're going to do something a little different. There is a way for those of you who really haven't saved enough for retirement, but have equity in your home and don't want to leave your home. You like it.

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