John Kimball is a business analyst, financial and real estate investor, certified financial education instructor, personal finance blogger, and dad.

After a Master’s Degree in International Relations, he has spent four decades navigating the myriad financial decisions relating to investing, renting real estate, raising a family, paying for college, stretching a dollar, and preparing for retirement. At first, this meant learning financial issues through trial and error, but later with research and study about what works in real life. As a certified financial education instructor and father of two Eagle Scouts, it became clear how little formal training most people receive in managing, saving, investing, and spending money.

To help remedy this, he has been writing about financial issues for several years on the personal finance blog, www.FinancialGuideToLife.com and has published a book with the same name.

Besides personal finance, his interests include travel, history, and technology. His favorite pastime is sitting in his garden, reading a political thriller or history book, and pretending he is really in a Japanese water garden.

You can contact him thru his blog: www.FinancialGuideToLife.com