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Financial Management and Home Ownership - Webinars from MSU Extension

Join HPL partner MSU extension between October and December 2024 for webinars on managing your finances and home ownership. There is something for everyone, with most webinars free to attend.

To register and for more information go to www.mimoneyhealth.org.

  • Homeownership Education Webinar
    • This homeownership seminar from MSU Extension will provide you with valuable information about the home buying process. 
  • Surviving and Thriving on a Fixed Income
    • This free workshop will cover tools to manage your financial resources, planning for the unexpected, tips to increase income and spend less, and setting goals and getting ahead.
  • Make a Spending Plan Work for You
    • Trying to stretch your money? Learn how to create and manage a spending plan. 
  • How Much Home Can You Afford?
    • Learn how to calculate how much home you can afford based on your current income during this 1-hour event. 
  • Wealth Building
    • This one-hour webinar will provide you with valuable information about building wealth, assessing your risk tolerance, saving and investment options.
  • Protecting Your Identity
    • This one-hour webinar will discuss how to protect yourself from identity theft and what to do if someone has stolen your identity. 
  • Retirement Myths and Facts
    • Thinking about what your future will look like? To reduce confusion about retirement it is important to separate fact from fiction. 
  • Tips to Build and Protect Your Credit
    • Do you have questions about credit? Are you trying to improve your credit score? This webinar will address credit myths, explain the importance of credit reports, demystify credit scores and provide strategies to build and protect your credit. 
  • Savvy Tips for Starting a Small Business
    • This class provides financial tools to entrepreneurs and potential small business owners who are considering starting a new business. 
  • Who Gets Grandma’s Yellow Pie Plate?™
    • Planning for the transfer of both titled and non-titled property is an important issue that can significantly impact family relations. “Who Gets Grandma’s Yellow Pie Plate?™” will address six key decision-making factors for non-titled property transfer and provide strategies to help you jumpstart conversations about the issue. 
  • Financial Preparedness for Disasters
    • The aftermath of disasters can be financially stressful. This workshop will provide steps to help you prepare and save time, money and stress if and when a disaster strikes. 
  • The Informed Renter
    • This workshop will equip you with valuable information about the rental process that will help you navigate the technicalities and avoid costly mistakes. Learn your rights and responsibilities as a tenant. 
  • Mortgage Foreclosure Basics
    • While foreclosure rates have declined somewhat during recent years, the issue is not over and many households are still facing foreclosure. This webinar will describe the options to keep, sell or let foreclosure happen. 
  • Student Loan Repayment Options
    • Come spend an hour of your time to help increase your financial awareness regarding student loan repayment. This webinar will provide you with tips and tools to successfully navigate repaying your student loans including repayment options and how to avoid default. 
  • Top 10 Credit Tips
    • Credit scores impact many things, so it is important to understand how to protect them. To register go to www.mimoneyhealth.org.
  • Property Tax Foreclosure Basics
    • For Michigan households who are facing foreclosure due to unpaid property taxes, it’s a stressful situation. This webinar will describe the three-year property tax timeline in Michigan, several options for possible assistance, and ways to plan paying back taxes to keep the property. 
  • Every Penny Counts
    • Saving money may seem like the impossible dream. It can be done with some planning and discipline. The one-hour webinar will discuss where to find the money to save and 10 strategies to make savings happen. For example, save 50 cents a day for a year and you can build nearly 40% of a $500 emergency fund! 
  • Your Money Your Goals
    • How confident are you in your ability to: understand core financial management topics, such as budgeting, saving and setting financial goals, order and fix credit reports, or making decisions about repaying debts and taking on new debt? Complicated situations call for a proper toolkit! Come learn about the Your Money, Your Goals Toolkit in this 1.5 hour training! 
  • Navigating Money Challenges
    • Join us for this one hour webinar that covers topics such as take stock of family and community resources, recognize changes and impacts on your household financial affairs, set spending priorities, involve the entire family, plan to pay creditors, watch for scams, and make your action plan Plus you will receive tools and a comprehensive Resource Guide to help you make your personal financial decisions. 
  • Avoiding Predatory Lending in Housing and Other Loans
    • During this webinar, the topics covered will be: recognize predatory loan tactics, learn to spot red flags, ask the right questions, and watch for scams.
  • Enjoy your Holidays on a Budget
    • This workshop will provide financial tips to help you stay on track during the holiday season. 

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