<p>There have been multiple threads on this topic in the past few months - rather than repeating myself, please see what I wrote in this thread: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1016375-what-correct-method-determining-value-your-home.html#post1065783580[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1016375-what-correct-method-determining-value-your-home.html#post1065783580</a> It’s post #12, with a link to the relevant page in Kalman Chany’s book, and a link to an earlier post of mine in an earlier thread on the same topic. (I also have a more recent one, which pretty much reiterates the other two).
Like others here, I highly, highly recommend Chany’s book, “Paying For College Without Going Broke”.</p>