Real estate's biggest edge over stocks may be psychological, not financial. A CFP on rethinking 'mailbox money' and selling for income.

I can write for years about all the ways we might choose to reduce or completely halt our income long before retirement age. Sometimes it's hard to pick just one angle that spotlights this concept, but when news hit last week about ​the tragic flooding in Nepal​, I recalled a vivid example from my own life when choosing less income gave me something far more valuable in return. In 2011, I asked my employer for an extended vacation. I would use all of my paid leave and one week of unpaid leave...

What can a game of Monopoly teach us about money? Explore how emotional attachment and other behavioral finance biases influence the financial decisions we make in real life.