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Summary: Get a Financial Life-Beth Kobliner
Review: Beth Kobliner gets a financial life when you purchase her book.
Her insight is shortsighted and her scope is narrowly targeting those in their 20s and 30s.
While events change our lives, Kobliner misses the opportunity to open our eyes to the aray of choices we have at our disposal.
Not a good read.
Good for her-she sold this book to secure her financial future.
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Summary: excellent advice in an easy-to-understand format
Review: Many of us are in poor financial health -- if not, all-out financial trouble -- due to fear and lack of understanding. Due to the stigma of financial ignorance, we allow ourselves to stay mired in debt or not organize our investments so we get better returns, rather than ask for help. Well, help is here in a great little book by Beth Kobliner. She covers the basics -- even synopsizes them in her first chapter if you don't have time to read the whole book just yet. Everything from tracking your expenses to getting out of debt to understanding a 401(k) to buying your own home. This book is a must-have and a must-keep --- if you plan to earn money, plan on having a copy of this book handy. It will serve you well past your 30s!
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Summary: Advice for young adults
Review: This book covers many of the basic requirements needed by those in the early stages of their financial lives. The advice is excellent and the author points out the importance of beginning a savings and investing program while still young. In addition, she covers many topics offering good guidance for her readers everyday lives, including how to decide between renting or buying, how to find a bank and choose the right type of account to open, etc. My only complaint with her advice is the suggestion readers "consider mutual funds your entire investment universe, at least for now." That is bad advice. Now is the time for learning how to invest in individual stocks and how to use options to make those investments safer. Learning how to make careful stock selections is worth the time and effort, and IMHO, using mutual funds is not the path to financial success.
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Summary: Great for College Students!
Review: I bought this book when I was in college and 4 years later I still refer to it when I'm in need of information. Kobliner outlines the basic, yet pretty important, financial topics. Definitely good for beginners, maybe not for those with a complex understanding of finance. Regardless, if you feel out of control, this book will help.
I found the following information the most helpful:
Chapter 2 - Taking Stock of Your Financial life
Chapter 6 - 401K Planning
Chapter 7 - Renters and Homeownership
Chapter 8 - Insurance
Every 6 months I refer back to page 42, Kobliner's guide to what financial information you need to hang onto and what you can throw out now.
Overall great information (but you need to apply it to make it work for you)!
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Summary: This book will get your life in order
Review: Easy to read and use, this very practical guide for taking charge of your finances will help you get out of debt, learn to save money (even if you don't make that much) and plan for your future. Very recommendable for people fresh out of college and couples about to get married. This will save you awkward moments and hard conversations.
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Summary: Getting copies for all my friends!
Review: I'm 27 years old and I wish I'd discovered this book when I was in high school or college. The world of personal financial management was a mystery to me before reading this book. Kobliner writes in a direct way, defining terms and cutting to the chase. She offers sound advice on anything from basic goal setting to investments, home-buying, retirement, you name it. I really appreciated her demystification of financial jargon and the fact that the advice provided in each chapter builds on information learned from previous chapters in a logical way. I cannot recommend this book enough!
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Summary: I teach with this book!
Review: This is a great, simple, straight forward book for people in their 20's and 30's. I use much of the information in workshops I teach on personal and professional finanaces for people is these age ranges. It's the basic info people want clearly organized.
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Summary: Very clear and useful
Review: What a wonderful book! There is very little in Get a Financial Life that has not been written before, but rarely has this information been compiled in so clear and readable a fashion. The updated version lives up to the standard of the original. This would be a terrific gift for a college graduate. Believe it or not, I have actually found myself buying it for friends! It's that good.
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Summary: WOW ON THE MONEY
Review: THIS BOOK LEADS YOU DOWN THE PATH WAY OF LIFE.ITS GETS TO WHAT IMPORTANT NOT WHAT YOU WANT TO DO.I THINK THIS SHOULD BE BE IN HIGH SCHOOL 9TH GRADE. WAKE UP CALL. THIS BOOK IS SO YOU WONT HAVE TO GO THRU YOUR 30S DOING THIS.
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Summary: This book changed my life
Review: I don't even remember where I heard about it, but I knew as soon as I read it (cover to cover - without hardly putting it down!)that my life was going to be different. From credit cards to renting to insurance to loans to everything else...Get A Financial Life continues to be my number 1 resource for all financial matters I come across and I don't see that changing anytime soon since there are many milestones that I have not yet passed. I keep the book on my desk and reach for it every couple of weeks to look up one thing or another. If all of that does not sell you on this book, I have since purchased 12 copies and I give them out as gifts to everyone that I know as young as 17 for birthdays, graduation and special occations. I think this book can help anyone. I HIGHLY recommend it!
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