The Power of the Charitable Remainder Trust

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The CRT is a very powerful estate planning tool that may enable you to reduce your liability for income and estate taxes, protect your assets AND diversify your assets in a tax-advantaged manner.

Why Buy Your Parent’s Home and Rent it Back to Them

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There are several ways to handle a parent’s home depending on their particular health or financial situation. At a bare minimum, your parents should have a Revocable Living Trust to ensure the orderly and effectively transfer of the home to the family and avoid probate in states where the expense is significant.

Seller Financing and Installment Sales – What are the Tax Implications

seller financing and installment sales - what are the tax implications

With the difficulties that have arisen in the lending market and a typical buyer’s ability to obtain a standard loan, many sellers have decided to “carry their own paper”. For those unfamiliar with such a term, we are talking about Seller Financing where you play ‘bank’ and now you have the precarious reporting requirements with […]