Michele Lerner is a personal finance writer and editor with more than two decades of experience covering mortgages, real estate, insurance, student loans, credit card debt and money management. She has written for numerous finance publications including The Motley Fool, Bankrate, MagnifyMoney, ValuePenguin, GetRichSlowly, Insurance.com and HSH.com as well as general consumer publications such as The Washington Post, the Boston Globe and USA Today.