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Raabe34

Payoff the mortgage, my gut says that her parents would have been happy with that answer from a philosophical point of view. From an investing point, you can't earn that much in bonds so why negative arbitrage yourself. Put the REITS in the taxable, all of them. 199A deduction will be worth it on th...

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Sell immediately. Should have sold sooner.

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The tax loss harvest will offset and taxable gains plus any capital gains distributions. You can take 3k year until it is used up and does all you years down the road to sell gains for free if you need to sell for any purpose later.

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Your doubts about owning bonds for you are spot on.

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Your initial conclusion is the best. With not much saved for that age you need to at least give it a shot as long as she understands what is being done. The reality is that the overall situation is probably untenable.

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I'm 38 and you need to chop a bit over a $0 off the end of your number with our situation. Kids are 12, 9, 5 and everything is currently setup to go into a trust if something happens to us and they get 1/3 each at age 25, 30 and 35 and I tried to give my brother in law enough flexibility to adjust i...

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Look into a donor advised fund.

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PRCXX if it is truly cash.

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AlohaJoe wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2019 8:36 pm
Raabe34 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2019 11:50 am
AlohaJoe wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:15 am The securities lending is nice. The easy access to margin for cash flow is nice.
Do you mean your ability to borrow against your securities or are you generating your own revenue that way?
Both.

Didn't know the part on generating on your own. Thanks

Raabe34

So in other words, if all brokerages charged zero commission for trades, which brokerage is the best and why? The securities lending is nice. The easy access to margin for cash flow is nice. IB can connect to my Australian bank account and not just my US ones. Do you mean your ability to borrow aga...

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After seeing people who have decided to go with BCBS without looking into the whole gamut I think you should kick the tires on the decision. I would not go with F based on the fact that new enrollments are going away soon if I recall correctly. And from the last time I looked at prices the cost of G...

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I lived a couple blocks away from my depression era grandparents in an extremely small town and we can check a whole lot of those boxes. The one I can add and I didn't realize it until adulthood but we spent a ton of time over there. They were our babysitters most of the time and stayed the night fr...

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A lot of wet blankets on this post, which really isn't all that surprising. I've done this for 4 years now with my now 11 yr old on the apartments I own. It's in a small town and we have to haul our own trash to the dump weekly. Kid helps with all parts of that process. Also shovels snow and assists...

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Does anybody know the securities lending rebating % Fidelity is using? I'm guessing that's a pretty big piece of this equation.

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In the case of Dave's 401k, they would not be paying any loads in the 401k plan due to being past the breakpoints. I think he takes that assumption(liberally) that we'll all be millionaires and won't be paying loads. He's fast forwarding a bit but he keeps the end in mind. The positive that he has b...

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One thing no one has mentioned yet is the fairly major loss to you of your 75k in gifts. You will not get to use that basis to depreciate against the property or when you eventually sell the property your capital gain will be bigger. FIL not claiming that income has huge value to him and the loss to...

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I delivered papers in the late 80s early 90s from grade 2 to grade 6 in a town of 300 with a route of 30 some papers. 6 day/week and made $50/mo. This included all the put it between doors, walk in garage and avoid dogs ect. I remember some very small tips at Christmas and I remember a model of the ...

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Sounds like you're getting it figured it out, I've been doing it over a decade at this point. It truly is running a business and not a passive investment.

What happened to that thread from a couple weeks ago chastisizing bogleheads for not buying real estate?

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Good afternoon everyone. I am learning about this 199a pass though deduction and it seems that my family will qualify for almost all 20% of it. Here is my question: We have a rental property not yet in an LLC. Can we use the deduction for this LLC as well? Or would the IRS see this as a double dipp...

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2) I was in college during Houston Oil Bust. I graduated into Texas Saving & Loan Crisis. I was in Asia during the Asian Currency Crisis. I was in Telecom during Telecom Bust. Then, my employer laid off 50% of its employees at my location on 1/1/2009. In summary, I have no job security for my 20...

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You'll have much better luck with the insurance company directly. I have an extremely hard time believing the surrender charges are only 1% unless the contract is pretty old. A lot of these are 15 year surrender schedules and are double digits for the % in the early years.

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Dump it because the expected return on metal I would have is basically the inflation # with slight periods of over and under performance. You need to keep something around though to remind you of the mistake and the hype that you bought into initially. Believe me I saw it as I helped a relative bury...

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I think you are getting close to self insured. I would look at something like a 10yr for 250k and at that point you should be really close to self insured and kids be off the dole. It really shouldn't be that expensive.

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Just so I get the facts right.

Worth 86k today and she is 32 and hasn't been contributed to in 8 years? Either this guys is hitting home runs or someone else funded this pretty good when she was younger.

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Refer to last housing crisis.

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If I do term insurance and "invest the difference" wouldn't I have to do significantly better in an investment account? So if I get 4-5% return on my WL policy wouldn't I need to at least double that in an investment account (10%) because it's a taxable account? Why do you say that? How d...

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Not that this this should matter in an individuals decision but from a volunteer position on a board of a hospital: But we get reimbursed less from MA plan than for med supp plans. And they are generally harder to work with. So if you've got any type of relationship with a doctor/system get some inp...

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Pull out your 2017 depreciation schedule out of the tax return and I think some of these answers might come to light.

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My semi-anecdotal evidence comes from a Bank President I know just a bit professionally/personally. They were a mutual savings bank that was a very successful organization and decided to demutualize a few years back. Total market cap is around 80 Mil, made roughly 3.5 mil in 2017 have a history of s...

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gasman wrote: ↑Sat Aug 04, 2018 7:51 pm 1. Why is the number of publicly trade companies shrinking?
2. What can/should an investor do other than diversify as widely as possible?

Sarbanes Oxley - makes it expensive for a smaller company to be public and is incentive to stay private.

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Good luck.

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If I were in your shoes I would recognize that I signed a contract and did not perform and therefore forfeit the deposit. Ya, and give up 15k. Sure.... I"m shocked by a boglehead callousness for an agreement that someone signed in good faith. If the company had performed differently and not co...

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If I were in your shoes I would recognize that I signed a contract and did not perform and therefore forfeit the deposit.

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We're missing a relevant data point here on the overall size of the plan. But if this plan is under 15 mil total that's very reasonable and I could make the case that Vanguard is the largest hog at the trough. All they are doing is running the mutual fund, not recordkeeping contributions, maintaini...

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We're missing a relevant data point here on the overall size of the plan. But if this plan is under 15 mil total that's very reasonable and I could make the case that Vanguard is the largest hog at the trough. All they are doing is running the mutual fund, not recordkeeping contributions, maintaini...

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I am no expert, but 44bp seems like a lot to me. Vanguard itself is charging 15bp and they are the ones doing all the work. Now I'm worried that our 401k might be doing something similar. I would be very unhappy if that were the case. We're missing a relevant data point here on the overall size of ...

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Too much in an emergency fund and it doesn't appear that you're maxing the roth for you. You need to max that and open one for your spouse and use some of that emergency fund money for 2018.

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livesoft wrote: ↑Mon Jul 02, 2018 9:37 am Ah, it's nice when feedback to Vanguard leads to implementation.

The costs and expenses to implement commissions are probably higher than any income that they get from commissions anyways.

This is also why Robinhood and M1 Finance are not going to survive in my opinion.

concur

Raabe34

Just like you can have multiple vendors inside a 401k you can have multiple vendors inside a CB.

All the same risks apply. I'm guessing he's structured slightly differently than you think because he would have his "own" 50k contribution vs the company one.

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I'm not sure you truly understand the cash balance and what the 3% means. The # only really matters in the actuarial calc and is probably somewhat indicative of how unaggressive the rest of the folks are invested. You should be able to open an account in the plans name and signature by a trustee and...

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A few of my friends made and continue to make a killing off of vacation/Air BnB rentals in desirable vacation destinations. They gross over $75K in annual rents on a single property. This requires a significant amount of time and/or systems compared to a regular rental. I like relatively passive re...

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Get a real accountant to run tax projections on the incomes. I've seen a bunch of cases where it ends up costing 10k+ in taxes to get a cheaper repayment schedule(newsflash you've probably got to pay it back either way).

So go into scenarios with an open mind on possibly filing joint.

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In 2004 I was fresh out of college, newly married and ended up making right around 55k that year, combined. If you count principal reduced on home loan, yes we achieved it for that year. I don't have meticulous records but we were right in the neighborhood of 25k saved. Didn't do a ton but didn't m...

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In 2004 I was fresh out of college, newly married and ended up making right around 55k that year, combined. If you count principal reduced on home loan, yes we achieved it for that year. I don't have meticulous records but we were right in the neighborhood of 25k saved. Didn't do a ton but didn't mi...

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That is my understanding also and the more likely option to me is that they cancel medigap policies in a state or just period. I don't know if a company has ever done that but that seems like a possibility to me. The government has been pretty decent with those issues on health insurance ones that f...

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Doesn't matter where proceeds are going from loan - it's a margin loan from the broker. You might be able to negotiate on rates. Can also check with a credit union and let them have a security interest in the account.

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If you want a second opinion contact these guys.

https://www.zanderins.com/

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If you're going down that road make a Roth 401k contribution.

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Thanks spiritrider

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