2013/8/1-10/28 [Reference/RealEstate] UID:54722 Activity:nil | 8/1 Suppose your house is already paid off and you retire at 65.
How much expense does one expect to spend a year, in the Bay
Area? Property tax will be about $10K/year for a modest $850K
home. What about other stuff?
\_ I think at age 65, health insurance is the next biggest expense.
\_ I am thinking that we can have a nice middle class
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2013/6/3-7/23 [Reference/RealEstate] UID:54685 Activity:nil | 6/3 Why are "real estate" and "real property" called so? Does the part
"real" mean something like "not fake"?
\- without going into a long discourse into common law,
it is to distinguish land/fixed property from intangible
property [like a patent] and movable, personal property,
like your car. Real property has historically had special
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2013/3/11-4/16 [Reference/RealEstate] UID:54622 Activity:nil | 3/10 I'm trying to help my parents, in their mortgage there's an
"escrow" amount. What exactly is this? From reading Google,
the loan company uses the escrow account to pay for home
insurance, but they've been paying home insurance themselves.
I'm really confused on what this fee is.
\_ Without an escrow account, you write checks to your insurance
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2011/12/15-2012/2/6 [Reference/RealEstate, Industry/Jobs] UID:54260 Activity:nil | 12/15 Does anyone have experience investing in apartment buildings
I'm not really looking to invest, but I want an apartment
to live in, and I'm not happy with the leases I'm encountering
for instance one requires 2 years of tax returns with the
application. I'm in a position to buy a building, but I've
got no experience with this, and I don't want to learn that
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2011/10/10-25 [Reference/Tax] UID:54192 Activity:nil | 10/10 My property tax breakdown is this in the LA county, how about yours?
General tax levy all agencies: 1.000000
City-Los Angeles .038895
Metro water dist: .003700
Commnty college: .040310
Unified schools: .186954
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2013/7/31-9/16 [Reference/RealEstate, Finance/Investment] UID:54720 Activity:nil | 7[31 Suppose you have a few hundred thousand dollars in the bank earning
minimum interest rate and you're not sure whether you're going to
buy a house in 1-5 years. Should one put that money in a more
risky place like Vanguard ETFs and index funds, given that the
horizon is only 1-5 years?
\_ I have a very similar problem, in that I have a bunch of cash
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2013/5/9-7/3 [Finance/Investment] UID:54675 Activity:nil | 5/9 I'm stock newbie. Let's say I made $1000 in Jan 2012 and then
lost $1000 in Feb 2012, does that mean I'm not liable to pay
any tax given that I made $0?
\_ Yes.
\_ Are both long term gains/both short term gains? And I assume you
mean realized gains, i.e. you actually sold the stock in an
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