3 Real Estate Related Money Lessons From a Guy Who Learned Them the Hard Way

In this episode of Motley Fool Answers , Robert Brokamp and Alison Southwick talk to special guest, New York Timesreporter John Schwartz. Like many of us, the money decisions he made through the first few decades of his career were not the very best, but in his mid-50s, he made a concerted effort to get back on track, which he chronicled in his new book, This is the Year I Put My Financial Life in Order.

And because it's far less painful to learn from other people's mistakes, the Fools brought him in to discuss five lessons that they took away from his tale of fiscal woe and redemption.