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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.

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How to Manage Different Investment Risk Tolerances Between Spouses

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The other is to find out what your ‘money personality’ is by rating your money use, acquisition and management tenancies as one of three states: Acquisition: Avoidant Secure Insatiable. Use: Miser Secure Compulsive overspender. Remember to consider real numbers. Then tell each other your stories. We have done both.

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The Top Three Ways People Get Rich

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If you have the talent and stomach for investing using other people’s money, you might make billions. He started investing with other people’s money way back in 1956 using funds only from friends and family. Real Estate. Real estate is a field with possibilities for the average gal and guy.