Good Things I Learned this Week

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There will be a vote before Congress to determine whether or not to allow continued tax deductions for interest paid on mortgages. This deduction is a huge source of tax savings to homeowners. Of course, Congress is looking for ways to generate income and the only place they can raise money is from the public. Please click on the following link, fill in your information and click the tab to ask Congress to preserve, protect and defend the mortgage interest deduction. It, literally, only takes a minute. Thanks. Click here: realtoractioncenter

Know that the IRS will never ask you for your banking info via e-mail. If the IRS contacts you it will, more likely, be through the postal service. The IRS website is .gov not .us. Apparently, now that it’s tax time, scam IRS emails are rampant. If you get an email from the IRS, no matter how real it looks, contact the IRS yourself before responding.

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Good Stuff I Learned this Week

This is too good not to share. Have you heard about the Khan Academy?  If you know anyone, including yourself, needing to learn about anything, check out this site. Fabulous resource! Free. Go “glimpse the future of education”.

Lots of articles this week on why renting a home is better than buying. In the Forbes article, Why I’m Never Going to Own a Home Again, they list 14 reasons not to buy including: your cash is gone when you pay the down payment, you have to fix things when they break, lack of mobility, you spend a lot of time working on the house when you could be doing something more important and you stress about losing it to foreclosure. Hilarious, but I don’t think he’s kidding. I, personally, am thrilled that he’s promoting renting.

The Barron’s article, Renter Nation, takes a more business/economy look at renting versus owning.  This article shows that homeownership in this country will continue to decline for years, back to the early 1990′s numbers, and roughly 10 million more individuals will be renting in the next 5 years. Why?  Slow job growth and wages (ugh), and the hightened requirements for mortgage lending. And, finally, there will be a decline in the number of households led by people 35 to 49 years old—the very ages when there is normally a huge jump in ownership.  For those of us with lots of rental properties, break out the champagne!

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“Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.”  Steven Wright

Hope you had a prosperous week!