Buying and holding may be suitable for stocks, but not your home.
It is no secret that your renters may not treat your home with the same TLC that you would devote to the property- there is simply less of an emotional and financial investment at stake.
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In other words, to be deductible, your home office must be your actual office and not just at your home for convenience.
Do NOT show your home on Twitter, Facebook, or any social media.
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Ooma Telo is the smart phone designed for your home, not your pocket.
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Most of your visitors come from a search engine first, and it is highly likely they will not land on your home page.
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Even though you spent no time in Massachusetts during that year, you did not change your permanent home, your domicile.
You also should have enough to cover life's inevitable, unanticipated expenses, like a leaky roof or dead furnace not just in your primary home but also in all of your investment properties (which likely suffered abuse and neglect on their way to becoming bargains).
Once you leave the comfort of your home, whether or not other people will conform to your expectations on various types of etiquette is out of your control.
There are also devices designed to connect your PC to your home entertainment system so you can play MP3 music from the Internet over your home system, not just on your PC.
Most of us have heard a story or two about how ferociously difficult it is to rid your home of bed bugs, but what you may not realize is how obscenely easy it is to bring them home from your travels.
The rental income figure you calculate is the amount of money you're saving by not having to rent your own home.
It's impossible to have a creature that physical and spiritual size in your home and not have it leave a gaping wound when it's excised.
It is not just about establishing your new home, though.
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Forget the fact the 92% of Americans believe in God or a higher power (Pew study) or that this country was founded on the notion of freedom to worship as you choose, faith is just not a welcomed subject outside your home.
If your psychic tells you to stay home, best not share that tidbit with your boss.
Even today in the world of satellite based GPS and the fairly exact positioning information it can provide, it is always best to have a paper chart or map and the needed tools in case your electronic ones fail so you are not left stranded and unable to find your way home.
If you have children and work, you are criticized for not staying at home to raise your children.
Here's what I don't do, thanks to TiVo: I do not rush home to catch Curb Your Enthusiasm.
If you are set on getting a vacation home but don't have the capital for an all-cash purchase, do not take a second mortgage on your home.
As privacy advocates like to remind you, the law that governs this dates back to when cellphones were brick-sized, and email was stored on your home computer, not in the cloud.
If lost, they are not linked to your main bank account back home.
You may have not noticed, but your cable box at home has a Firewire port on it, designed to serve up content to other devices in your home.
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"These manufacturers would rather not have to send a truck to your home if something goes wrong with their product, " says Tony Massimini , an analyst with Semico Research in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Don't let the name run away with your imagination -- the Japanese carrier is focusing on sharing music, video and digital content between smartphones and other home electronics, not automating your apartment.
Start by building up emergency savings equivalent to three to six months of your take-home pay (or if you're not working full-time, your expenses), says Kimberly Foss, a wealth adviser in Sacramento, Calif.
Since most people would not want to have IRS as a creditor, you might prefer to borrow from friends, use your home equity line of credit (the interest may or may not be deductible), or choose to pay taxes by credit or debit card.
Not only do your employees want to work at home, you can benefit greatly.
No matter how marvellous a residential home is, it is not your own place.
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