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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! Increases in your assessed value can sometimes be negotiated downward, saving you tax money. 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. Here is a quiz that might help. We have done both.

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The Top Three Ways People Get Rich

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I would not feel right doing that kind of ‘investing’ My own financial freedom was gained through investing, but mine was the slow motion, takes a lifetime of scrimping and saving and working and earning to get the money to invest kind of investing. Real Estate. Start a business, fill a need. Money Tips'