August 06, 2008
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36 comments:
Americano ! PATHETIC !!!
shouldn't he be looking for a buyer? there are tons of sellers
What a tool! Leave the business now, find a real job, sorry dude but this trough is closed.
Northern Virginia real estate is stable. Prices will never fall because we get tons of federal money.
Please let me buy your foreclosed home, Mr. Realtard!
If they can't get listings in this market - they are truly the bottom of the realtor pecking order. They're all drowning in listings - finding someone to buy - that's the problem.
I watched 43 seconds of it. Couldn't watch any more. Sickening.
Greg Swann?
DOPES!!!
One word: SCARY
.... 0.5% is what it should have been all along.
If this clown can't even get a listing, When there is nothing but homes for sale where on gods earth is he going to come up with a buyer? I know buy preaching that now is a GREAT time to buy....
Poor Greg Swann
Ah! Antisemitism!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
One word: SCARY
August 06, 2008 1:22 PM
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It is beyond scary here in Wisconsin. When you dial the unemployment office here and get all the way through their phone tree, you get a message that they are too busy to answer calls, please try calling again on Thursday or Friday.
Is that greg swann.how times have changed.God bless this man.
Anyone have an overpriced listing you can give him to finally put him out of business?
"Paul E. Math said...
I watched 43 seconds of it. Couldn't watch any more. Sickening."
Good Man. I could only manage 39 seconds before almost laughing myself to death.
This jerkoff should send his video to Bushco-Cheneyburton. They love stories like this. MAry Yun could throw him a few bucks from the used-house sellers welfare fund.
Sounds like a good start to me...
NOW A GREAT TIME for Foreclosure!
He must be one of those "professionals" that the NAR keeps telling us we need to hire to sell out houses.
"Northern Virginia real estate is stable. Prices will never fall because we get tons of federal money."
Uh - NOT!
Just ask the THOUSANDS of underwater FB'ers in Loudoun, Fairfax & PW Counties BEGGING for a Buyer
You must be drinking 2005 kool-aid still!!
Annnd we'll call him, Dicknose.
Coffee is for closers ONLY!
This turd will look good in a Starbucks apron...
That was priceless!
What's funny is that all of you think he was serious. Gotta love this blog. ;)
Is this guy for real or is it a joke?
Probably....
That was a put on, right? Really, I'm not convinced that was for real, had to be a lame prank.
Went to his real estate website: he's a realtor and a lawyer--double fucked
Here's a nasty litle tidbit from the new Fuck the Responsible US Citizens and Reward the Crooked Political and Wall Street con artists Housing Bailout Bill.
This should help the the REIC get back on its feet:
House-Hoppers May Suffer
Under New Tax Rules
Housing Package
Makes It Harder
To Exclude Gains
August 6, 2008; Page D3
Life is getting tougher for some people who own more than one home.
Part of the housing-stimulus package signed into law last week by President George W. Bush could reduce -- though not eliminate -- the appeal of a tax-saving strategy used by wealthy home-hoppers.
While the new law won't affect the vast majority of the nation's homeowners, it will likely affect some people planning to sell their primary residence, claim the full home-sale exclusion to pay little or no capital-gains taxes -- and then move to a second or third home they've owned for some time, convert it into their primary residence, sell it and once again pay little or no capital-gains tax.
Under both the old and new law, most homeowners can sell their primary residence and exclude as much as $250,000 of the gain if they're single, or as much as $500,000 if they're married and filing jointly with their spouse. To qualify for the full exclusion, owners typically must have owned the home and used it as their primary residence for at least two of the five years prior to the sale.
But under the new law, which takes effect next year, many owners might not be eligible to claim the full exclusion on a vacation or rental home they convert to a primary residence.
Congressional staffers estimate the new restrictions will raise about $1.4 billion in revenue for the U.S. Treasury Department over the coming decade. The move was designed to help offset costs of other breaks in the new law and also plug what congressional staffers viewed as a major loophole in a law enacted in the late 1990s.
The new law "will certainly complicate tax returns" and tax planning for some people, says John Olivieri, a tax partner at the White & Case law firm in New York. It also "contains traps for the unwary," he says.
Most people don't have to worry about the new law since most don't own multiple homes, and many who do will never convert theirs to a principal residence. Even if they did, they wouldn't dream of moving and jumping through legal hoops just to save taxes -- and their second or third home might not work well as their primary residence anyway. Also, with home prices in a deep slump, many homeowners probably don't have large gains to shelter.
Even so, tax lawyers predict the new law probably will prompt some wealthy people who own several homes to rethink the home-hopper strategy. "I know one individual with four homes who had planned to convert each of his three vacation and resort properties to a principal residence" and sell each at varying intervals to take advantage of the full home-sale exclusion, thus paying little or no capital gains tax, says Linda Goold, tax counsel at the National Association of Realtors in Washington. "It won't be as easily done now."
Here's a primer on the basics and a summary of the changes, along with an example of how it's supposed to work:
The basics. When the law was changed in 1997, government officials said it would mean that most people who sell their primary residence don't owe any federal capital-gains taxes. Even if you can't meet the requirements for the full home-sale exclusion, you may still be able to claim a partial exclusion depending on how long you owned and lived in the home and why you sold it.
For example, you might be eligible for a partial exclusion if you had to sell because of a change in your place of employment, or for health reasons, or for certain "unforeseen circumstances," such as the death of your spouse, says Bob D. Scharin, senior tax analyst at the tax and accounting business of Thomson Reuters.
As with so many other tax laws, there are important exceptions. For example, there are special rules for members of the uniformed services and the Foreign Service, and for certain employees of the intelligence community, such as the Central Intelligence Agency. Also, the exclusion doesn't apply to the extent the gain is attributable to depreciation allowed for rental or business use of your principal home for periods after May 6, 1997.
These home-sale exclusion rules apply only when you sell your primary residence. But in the late 1990s, real-estate agents, developers and others discovered special benefits for home-hoppers: These owners could pay little or no capital-gains taxes by carefully timing which home they used as their primary residence and when they sold it.
For example, consider a married couple with several homes who had lived in their main home for two years or more. They typically could sell their primary residence, exclude as much as $500,000 of the gain from tax -- and then move into a vacation home, make it their new primary residence, live in it two years or more, sell it and once again take advantage of the full $500,000 exclusion.
A new twist. Under the new law, you can't exclude the gain from the sale of the home allocated to periods of "nonqualified use." That typically refers to any period (after the end of 2008) when the property isn't used by you, your spouse or former spouse as a principal residence, according to a congressional staff summary. Also, the new law is effective only for sales beginning next year.
Here's an example: Suppose a married couple buys a home on Jan. 1 next year for $600,000, says Mr. Olivieri of White & Case. They plan to hold it as an investment. On Jan. 1, 2012 -- three years later -- they begin using it as their principal residence. They live there two years and sell it on Jan. 1, 2014 for $1.1 million, for a profit of $500,000.
Under the old law, they would have been able to exclude the entire $500,000 gain from their taxable income, Mr. Olivieri says. But under the new law, they could exclude only two-fifths of the gain, or $200,000, since the other three-fifths would be considered attributable to the three years the home wasn't their principal residence, he says.
So what, if anything, should homeowners do? For starters, before buying a second home, consider consulting a tax professional, says White & Case's Mr. Olivieri. He points out there are important exceptions to the new rules. It's remarkably easy for people who aren't experts and who rely solely on common sense to make costly mistakes.
For more details and examples of how the new law works, visit the Web site of Congress's Joint Committee on Taxation (www.jct.gov) and look for publication JCX-63-08, dated July 23, 2008
To the Revolving Asshole in the video, Realwhore, you are where you operate best: On Your Kness, Bitch.
The man will take commission in fruit!!!
PS, click the links people, it's pure satire. You guys are too easy to bait.
It looks like a joke ... if you clicked on the title of the post it brings you to his site. Looks like he started to tape something and hit upon this idea for the spoof and just went with it.
Oh he was serious all right. He's one of those small time attorney hacks who thought he could pimp his way through the bubble, fast-talking to grab all the easy sales and letting the processors do the real work, while he gets verrry rich. NOT HAPPENIN', DUDE!
Get a real job, if you can find one. Or that wife we hear nervously laughing on the other end of that video camera will be out the door, along with your 'listings'.
This was clearly a Joke
...and the trip to the Quizno's where this tool will be putting the baggies on his hands to start making my sandwich starts in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
It's a joke folks, but it's cutting close to the truth
You make jokes about the things that are true as a way of relieving the stress
That was one lame-ass attempt at satire.
COold hardly watch 30 sec. it was so horribly stupid and amateurish.
Kinda reminds me of HPers.
Damn, you geeks are lame.
F-
"Oh he was serious all right. He's one of those small time attorney hacks..."
And there goes another 22-year old HPer off on an ass-umption ride...
OF COURSE it was a joke.
The REAL LAUGH comes from understanding just how believable it was. ;^)
Why is this considered "an example"?:
«Here's an example: Suppose a married couple buys a home on Jan. 1 next year for $600,000, says Mr. Olivieri of White & Case. They plan to hold it as an investment. On Jan. 1, 2012 -- three years later -- they begin using it as their principal residence. They live there two years and sell it on Jan. 1, 2014 for $1.1 million, for a profit of $500,000.»
That's a 13% YOY asset appreciation for the house. Huge appreciation ... 5 years in a row ... past the largest and most destructive asset-speculation bubble Humanity has ever seen. WHY IS THIS CONSIDERED AN EXAMPLE?!?!
@get on you kness(sic)
That is one of the most pointless articles I ever read.
What is the difference between a person selling a house and immediately buying a new one as the principal residence, versus already owning the next one?
Oh, yeah - they had to be rich to own it already! Let's slam the rich (unless they are in Congress - then being rich is expected).
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