Home and financial management
Finding, keeping and maintaining housing is often a challenge. Financial situations throughout one’s lifetime is often connected. University of Minnesota Extension helps Minnesotans explore and understand how to secure stable housing, manage the safety and efficiency of homes, and better plan for your financial future.
Caring for your home
Home maintenance and safety
Maintain your home and create a healthy safe environment with practical, research-based information.
Energy efficiency
Performance of new homes, homes in cold climates
Moisture and mold indoors
Clean up, prevention, basement moisture problems
Protecting your home from rain and ice
Dealing with and preventing ice dams, water-proofing homes
Housing options
Renting
Learn to be a successful renter with these helpful resources.
Financing your home
Know how and when to finance or refinance your home.
Disaster preparation and recovery
How to prepare
Plan now before disaster strikes.
Financial recovery
Help families recover from a natural disaster.
Flooding
How to clean up flood damage.
Personal finances
Spending and saving
Manage your spending and saving to better meet your goals.
Youth and money
It's essential that young people know how to make the most use of their resources.
Taxes
Resources to help you find free tax preparation sites and get guidance on making tax refund decisions that are right for you and your family.
Credit and debt
Credit can help us get things we need and things we want, but it should be used wisely.
Investment and retirement
It's never too early (or late) to make plans for your future financial security.
Adjusting to income loss
How you respond to the income changes financial, emotionally, and socially can make a difference for you and your family's long-term financial security.
Teaching personal finance
Build the financial education capacity for you and your staff.
Transferring property
Transferring non-titled property
Avoid family conflicts by planning who to pass personal belongings to.
Transferring land
Successful land transfers involve communication, knowledge of options, planning, and attention to detail.