This calculator helps you decide whether you should sell and re-buy your home in order to eliminate or reduce future capital gains tax.
Bay Area Real Estate: Buy Now Or Wait?
What should you consider if you are thinking of buying a home in the San Francisco Bay Area now?
The Right and Wrong Reasons To Buy A Home
Homebuyer survey results show that no everyone is buying a home for the right reasons.
Having a Mortgage and Buying Stocks On Margin
A mortgage is a negative bond. Buying stocks while having a mortgage is the same as buying stocks on margin. So is buying stocks while renting.
Is Your Home an Investment?
If you get something for free it’s the same as income only if you’d pay the cash price anyway. If you are paying up front, it’s just a different way to pay for an expense.
The Difference Between Asset And Investment
What is an asset and what is an investment? Are all assets investments? Are all investments assets? Is your home an asset or an investment or both?
Who Should Default On Their Mortgage
My first issue of The Atlantic magazine hasn’t come yet. I also subscribed to The Atlantic Business RSS feed. The online articles are free to everyone, not just print magazine subscribers. I read Why Shouldn’t People Just Default? and So When Should You Default on Your Mortgage? by Megan McArdle. Ms. McArdle is against strategically […]