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Save Taxes: Negotiate A Reduction in Your Assessed Value

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If you own real estate, you have been, or someday will be, confronted with a rise in your assessed property value. This usually leads to an increase in your real estate taxes! Assessed value is the value that will be used in determining how much you will pay in real estate taxes. Real estate market movement.

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How to Manage Different Investment Risk Tolerances Between Spouses

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It was developed by two university personal finance professors one at Virginia Tech and the other at Kansas State University. Remember to consider real numbers. He manages the bond investments and I handle the stock, real estate and other investments. Maybe you haven’t a clue what your risk tolerance is.

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The Top Three Ways People Get Rich

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They also include folks like Patricia Billings of Kansas City, Missouri, named inventor of the year in 1997 by MIT and who invented GEOBond (kind of a super goo that is non-toxic as well as indestructible and fireproof,as well as the world’s first workable replacement for asbestos. Real Estate. Money Tips'