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How is Your Vacation Rental Doing?

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It seemed reasonable to devote a greater portion to real estate, in order to further diversify our portfolio. Wouldn’t it be fun to have a place where our sons, their wives and our grandchildren could come together to play, visit and bond? If we hadn’t generated that gain, our taxes would have been lower.

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How to Have Your Cake and Eat It Too

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With the help of an estate planning lawyer and your accountant you might be able to use one of these “have your cake and eat it too” ideas. Keep Your Asset, But Still Get An Estate and Gift Tax Break On it. million left tax-free to heirs.”. Get Income for Life From An Asset You Give Away. percent I.R.S.

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11 Things I learned After Owning a Vacation Property

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I wanted a place for our family to gather – adult children and grandchildren along with us. I also wanted a bit more diversification in our portfolio and figured an additional piece of real estate could help that. The tax code for second homes used as rental properties is incredibly complex here in the US.

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