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Monday, September 10, 2007
Suze Said: “Sex, ladies, you can live without. Money, you can’t.”

imageThe Upper East Side Informer blog goes for gold at personal finance expert Suze Orman’s Sunday night talk at the Y and comes back with a handful of nuggets. Here are a few:

Home: Talk early and openly with your spouse about money. Get comfortable with the topic. “I refuse to believe that the man in your life does not want you to know. He is probably just as afraid as you are right now,” said Orman.

Real Estate: New York will not be hit as hard by the sub-prime collapse. Most buildings are co-op and require a minimum 50% deposit; there wasn’t as much sub-prime lending here as in other states.

Younger women: 401K. Stick with it. Don’t touch it. The more stock prices go down, the more shares you are buying each month.

Eradicate credit card debt: No employee of Orman’s is permitted to have credit card debt. Pay it off now. Don’t put it off.

Buy a home: Pay off the mortgage as soon as you can. “There’s no better investment than a home,” said Orman. Most homes appreciate 4 percent in value every year. In the next four years, some 2.2 million Americans are going to foreclose. Start saving now so you can jump in to swoop up one of those houses.

Read a more detailed rundown of the night and don’t miss these business and finance programs this fall at the Y:

  • Investment Strategies for the Individual Investor Series with Jim Cramer, Abby Joseph Cohen and others
  • Captains of Industry Series with Bruce Wasserstein, Sir Howard Stringer and Anne Mulcahy
  • Ahead of the Curve: Spotting Stock Trends
  • Making Sense of Manhattan Real Estate
  • Innovate Like Edison
  • Doing What Matters: The Revolutionary Old-Fashioned Approach to Business
  • How to Leave Corporate America without Going Broke
  • Negotiating the New York Real Estate Market
  • Real Estate 101: City or Suburbs?
  • Ace Every Interview: Getting the Job You Really Want
  • Turn Your Life Around After Losing Your Job
  • Persuasive Writing in Business
  • Leadership Skills for Success



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