When you’re looking for financial advice and you don’t want to ask your parents or your friends for it because you don’t want them to know about your finances, of course - it’s none of their business. Right? So who do you turn to? I searched “personal finance”, and this was my result.

I don’t know about you but I hesitate to trust CNN for my personal finance advice, not because I don’t think they know what their talking about, but they talk about people making money on a level I’m not. Millionaires and the like, I’m not there YET so I need advice that applies to me.

This is where The Finance Forums, Personal Finance Discussion forums become an incredible resource.

I registered on the site to gain access to the forums and glanced through the topics available for discussion on the main board for a moment. There were several headings that interested me such as: General Finance, Personal Loans, Mortgages, Credit Ratings, Insurance, in addition to this, under each topic are subheadings you can cherry pick through, I found subtopics that I was personally interested in and read quite a few of them. The Senior Members are knowledgeable, helpful and respond quickly, the community responds as well in quick fashion.

Not only are the Senior Members knowledgeable and responsive, they go above and beyond simply answering questions. I read a very good post about drop shipping and different resources to monetize your site, as well as learned that a senior member is very supportive of his brothers. Which is good to know, because who’s gonna steer their family with bad advice? No one. You can trust the advice you’re given.

You’re not responded to in an automated fashion, the advice you receive is based on personal experience, which is encouraging, I like to know what works for everyday people, not the reporters that are reading a report written by someone else. Where’s the personal touch?

Money matters are very personal matters, not to be discussed with just anyone, the anonymity provides a security when speaking about money that you don’t have with people close to you. If you go spouting about your finances to anyone that will listen, you’re laying yourself out there for con artists and people to borrow money from you all the time because they know your situation, good or bad.

Keep that business to yourself, The Finance Forums provide you any advice you could possibly need, if the topic isn’t already there, you can create it and get answers. Best of all, these people can’t call you tomorrow and say hey, instead of putting your $3000 in a money market account, would you like to invest in the business I’m starting?

Save yourself the pitches from family members, keep it close to the vest and go to a trustworthy, knowledgeable and responsive personal resource. Kind of like a family friend, but without the angle. :)