Carl Stuart answers your questions including the unemotional choice of robo-advisors, using expendable income to pay down a mortgage or buy stocks, and advice for a soon-to-be-teacher to hold on to savings during the lean months ahead of student teaching. Also, some popular questions of late on 529 college plans and protesting property tax appraisals.

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Carl Stuart answers a carryover question from the previous week on protesting property tax assessments with the help of informed listeners. He also takes on other complicated topics like how to position ranch land for their heirs or themselves, the possibility of combining pension, 401k, and 403b accounts into one for easy management, why Carl is shying away from U.S.-only stock ETFs for the near term, and other questions.

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Carl Stuart takes on some more nuanced topics like staying (a little) aggressive with your nest egg in retirement, tax strategies behind 1031 real estate transactions, and survivor benefits when one spouse's employer paid into Social Security and the other, a teacher, only paying into a pension (TRS).

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