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| 83976 | If you are gifted or gifting a house, can the 500k cap gains exclusion come into | Jim McMannis | 8/8/2007 |
| 83975 | Just as the sell-off was a bit overdone, so is this rebound My gold stocks are | saveslivesbyday | 8/8/2007 |
| 83974 | Jim McMannis,re:"fannie, freddie, bennie...". Evidence of 'conspir | John Chen | 8/8/2007 |
| 83973 | I'm not in those, but the ones I'm in (CTX, TOL, LEN) are bad enough.... | patron_anejo_por_favor | 8/8/2007 |
| 83972 | Correct. | Travis_Bickle | 8/8/2007 |
| 83971 | hmm, you are right. That's very clever of someone. Force a short squeeze. | Think4Yourself | 8/8/2007 |
| 83970 | It is 12k this year, 2007. I know this because my husband got one of those 12k c | GraceZ | 8/8/2007 |
| 83969 | I've bought bills through Fido, the service charge is nominal. | patron_anejo_por_favor | 8/8/2007 |
| 83968 | I'm lucky. | Jim McMannis | 8/8/2007 |
| 83967 | tradelite,re:"not a tax expert..IRS website". No problem. Thanks. Semi | John Chen | 8/8/2007 |
| 83966 | And NVR, which is generally considered one of the most solid builders, up less t | Travis_Bickle | 8/8/2007 |
| 83965 | Democrats would unload junk mortgages onto Fannie and Freddie Anyone wanna bet t | Jim McMannis | 8/8/2007 |
| 83964 | seminole83,re:"it is the donor's cost basis". Thanks. But I don | John Chen | 8/8/2007 |
| 83963 | As long as the money didn't come from "Uncle" Vito. They make buye | GraceZ | 8/8/2007 |
| 83962 | BZH up 25%. HOV up 20%. WCI up 18%. MTH up 17%. ouch! | Think4Yourself | 8/8/2007 |
| 83961 | Very strange action.. About the third time today it was ready to roll over and i | coug | 8/8/2007 |
| 83960 | Sorry, John, not a tax expert. Know just enough to get by, know how to get arou | Tradelite | 8/8/2007 |
| 83959 | With a lifetime gift it is the donor's cost basis; with a gift taking effect | Travis_Bickle | 8/8/2007 |
| 83958 | I'm wondering if we can short cover to new highs in the DOW? only 395 mo' | Jim McMannis | 8/8/2007 |
| 83957 | tradelite,re:"No Tax on the Person Receiving your Gift or Estate". Wh | John Chen | 8/8/2007 |
| 83956 | Yup, the DJIA is now only 3% off of it's all time high. That was SOME corre | Think4Yourself | 8/8/2007 |
| 83955 | "I still think the longer-term trajectory [for builder stocks] is down over | Travis_Bickle | 8/8/2007 |
| 83954 | Or a half day's trading.. :) | coug | 8/8/2007 |
| 83953 | 2. outside of Treasury Direct, what's a good, cheap way to buy Tbills? Disc | Jim McMannis | 8/8/2007 |
| 83952 | re: gifts..... for those who want to figure it all out, here's what I found | Tradelite | 8/8/2007 |
| 83951 | TreasuryDirect lockup - just discovered my TreasuryDirect Tbills are subject to | Perspective | 8/8/2007 |
| 83950 | Only 430 points to new all time closing high on the DOW. | Jim McMannis | 8/8/2007 |
| 83949 | IMHO, the overall market should roll over here if it is not caught and propped u | coug | 8/8/2007 |
| 83948 | >>>Gift tax doesn't kick in until $1m<<< Last time I look | Tommaso | 8/8/2007 |
| 83947 | The 11k figure you are thinking of is the amount you can give to any one person | Travis_Bickle | 8/8/2007 |
| 83946 | Actually, the annual allowable gift without owing tax is FAR lower than $1 milli | Tradelite | 8/8/2007 |
| 83945 | Gift tax doesn't kick in until $1m so unless it's a real mansion shouldn | Travis_Bickle | 8/8/2007 |
| 83944 | short and to the point. they should get it.. even with their limited attention s | grusum | 8/8/2007 |
| 83943 | If the parents are willing to supply the money, sign a sworn statement that it&# | Tradelite | 8/8/2007 |
| 83942 | That was due to the mortgage pipelines being flushed before all the new rules to | Think4Yourself | 8/8/2007 |
| 83941 | I can imagine that few exotic mortgages are available. It seems to me that prime | Live2Sail | 8/8/2007 |
| 83940 | Thank you. My submitted commentary to her proposals: I know a number of people | Think4Yourself | 8/8/2007 |
| 83939 | Didn't the mortgage bankers assn. make some announcement today about an incr | Tradelite | 8/8/2007 |
| 83938 | Other than a slight beat on the top line, which has been cut so many times, am I | Smiling Bob | 8/8/2007 |
| 83937 | LOL....very true. Settlement = paper avalanche. | Tradelite | 8/8/2007 |
| 83936 | That's always how I think when I take long positions but for some reason I a | GraceZ | 8/8/2007 |
| 83935 | No margin usage here either. I couldn't survive intact until next summer bu | Think4Yourself | 8/8/2007 |
| 83934 | Here is Hillary's site: hillaryclinton.com | CalculatedRisk | 8/8/2007 |
| 83933 | <i>.......the seller would have be complicit in the deal and sign two iden | GraceZ | 8/8/2007 |
| 83932 | My builder positions are all investments, as I've said before I expect to be | Travis_Bickle | 8/8/2007 |
| 83931 | no, i got this post off another blog. but one might be able to google her site. | grusum | 8/8/2007 |
| 83930 | Any idea where the website is? I would love to put some comments up on it about | Think4Yourself | 8/8/2007 |
| 83929 | It would be especially hard to pull off two first-mortgage loans on the same hou | Tradelite | 8/8/2007 |
| 83928 | That's the nature of stops. If you place one it gets picked off right at som | GraceZ | 8/8/2007 |
| 83927 | this renter wants his share of the proposed bailout too. letter to hillary.. == | grusum | 8/8/2007 |
| 83926 | Les, I would have at least stayed around until he woke up, and asked him if he w | saveslivesbyday | 8/8/2007 |
| 83925 | It would be a pretty difficult trick to pull off a closing with two primary mort | GraceZ | 8/8/2007 |
| 83924 | That's what I suspect is happening this morning. They are running the stops | Think4Yourself | 8/8/2007 |
| 83923 | >>>It will be hilarious if the builders close the day down.<<< | Smiling Bob | 8/8/2007 |
| 83922 | He has no idea. He has no idea how bad it is down there... startribune.com | Les H | 8/8/2007 |
| 83921 | I never use stops. A lot of times your stop will get taken out and it'll tu | Travis_Bickle | 8/8/2007 |
| 83920 | yes, could be some of that too. Would probably use tight stops myself if I were | Think4Yourself | 8/8/2007 |
| 83919 | <i>This double digit jump is a gift from the weak shorts. </i> Or o | GraceZ | 8/8/2007 |
| 83918 | I scrounged up some cash liquidating non-homie investments and added to a number | Think4Yourself | 8/8/2007 |
| 83917 | The hammer formations over the last week were pretty indicative of a trend chang | Jim McMannis | 8/8/2007 |
| 83916 | Added some RYL and KBH, entry point is certainly better than yesterday, lol. | Travis_Bickle | 8/8/2007 |
| 83915 | I actually have a long position in GS, I figure they are pulling the strings as | Travis_Bickle | 8/8/2007 |
| 83914 | Wow, anyone watching the builders? 16-17 percent gains at the moment. Housing | Think4Yourself | 8/8/2007 |
| 83913 | and just as in the Savings and Loan bailout by the Fed, as in the Keating 5, now | Chas. | 8/8/2007 |
| 83912 | <<there are no kids or road maintenance to contend with, so cities make ou | Tradelite | 8/8/2007 |
| 83911 | `Mortgage Disruptions' Will Deepen Housing Slump, Realtors Say By Kathleen | Paul Kern | 8/8/2007 |
| 83910 | Lots of volume. I suspect this will all be over quickly. I am so peeved that I | Think4Yourself | 8/8/2007 |
| 83909 | <<I wonder what Fannie and Freddie do if someone applies for two separate | Tradelite | 8/8/2007 |
| 83908 | I think you're living in the past. The Chinese execute government bureaucra | bentway | 8/8/2007 |
| 83907 | <i>I wonder what Fannie and Freddie do if someone applies for two separate | GraceZ | 8/8/2007 |
| 83906 | The market is up primarily because the financial stocks have recovered from thei | saveslivesbyday | 8/8/2007 |
| 83905 | >>>They have the huge advantage over us of not having their political l | Tommaso | 8/8/2007 |
| 83904 | I agree with you, the Chinese seem to actually think and plan for the long term. | bentway | 8/8/2007 |
| 83903 | I think people might be buying the homies on account of the business week cover. | Travis_Bickle | 8/8/2007 |
| 83902 | Having never owned a farm, I don't know. | bentway | 8/8/2007 |
| 83901 | Govt is pretty stupid. Very Stupid ACTUALLY. I wouldn't put it past [GOVT] | 10K a day | 8/8/2007 |
| 83900 | I am thinking more from the standpoint of the current landowners. Will their pr | Think4Yourself | 8/8/2007 |
| 83899 | Everyone waiting to see if that 10 AM sell program kicks in? If there is a PPT | saveslivesbyday | 8/8/2007 |
| 83898 | Kind of like when people rushed into stocks with no earnings or positive cash fl | Dale Baker | 8/8/2007 |
| 83897 | Farmland is a non event. The builders already let their option money go and wal | 10K a day | 8/8/2007 |
| 83896 | I wonder what that does to property taxes for all the other land owners? Is far | Think4Yourself | 8/8/2007 |
| 83895 | Ethanol Is Feeding Hot Market for Farmland By MONICA DAVEY nytimes.com ( What o | bentway | 8/8/2007 |
| 83894 | <i>Home buyers are finding it virtually impossible to obtain mortgages unl | GraceZ | 8/8/2007 |
| 83893 | I suspect they are just trying to shake out the low hanging fruit (weak shorts). | Think4Yourself | 8/8/2007 |
| 83892 | Certainly creating some hurting. It's been rare for HBs to move up longer t | Smiling Bob | 8/8/2007 |
| 83891 | Ah yes, Cramer the prognosticator... youtube.com | Metacomet | 8/8/2007 |
| 83890 | I may change some positions myself. The stocks that are destined to go to 0 are | Think4Yourself | 8/8/2007 |
| 83889 | If GS gets back to 200, I'll start buying puts again ... and SKF | saveslivesbyday | 8/8/2007 |
| 83888 | Nice short squeeze going on this morning. Wishing I had waited an extra day now | Think4Yourself | 8/8/2007 |
| 83887 | Rising tide lifting even sinking HB's boats this AM I guess it's back t | saveslivesbyday | 8/8/2007 |
| 83886 | Probably folks are making three or four applications instead of one hoping that | Paul Kern | 8/8/2007 |
| 83885 | That's True. I Was Indeed Cherry-Picking but not so much to make a fine poin | gregor_us | 8/8/2007 |
| 83884 | One can only hope this Fannie/Freddie expansion talk is like the Mexican border | Think4Yourself | 8/8/2007 |
| 83883 | Yes but did he apply since last Friday? He has been looking since February. I | Think4Yourself | 8/8/2007 |
| 83882 | The BUllSHAT is not OVER!!!!!!!!! This man only has a 5% down payment and got t | Pogeu Mahone | 8/8/2007 |
| 83881 | That is the question that needs an answer. Is the stupidity over, or is a 0% o | Pogeu Mahone | 8/8/2007 |
| 83880 | As Ben Demurs, Hillary Looks to Bail Out Mortgage Market online.barrons.com | Les H | 8/8/2007 |
| 83879 | I loved Cramers' explanation of the market action yesterday. It is now onwa | bkcraun | 8/8/2007 |
| 83878 | "You didn't mention the decoder ring did you?" Are you crazy? Of | saveslivesbyday | 8/8/2007 |
| 83877 | seminole83,re:"premium valuation ?". Meaning overpriced ? | John Chen | 8/8/2007 |
