Aly J. Yale is a freelance real estate and personal finance writer from Houston. Her work has been published in Forbes, Money, Business Insider, Bankrate, The Motley Fool, The Balance, Money Under 30, and more. Prior to freelancing, she served as an editor and reporter for The Dallas Morning News. She graduated from TCU's Bob Schieffer College of Communication with a focus on radio-TV-film and news-editorial journalism.