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- From: guppy@wixer.cactus.org (Jennifer Mery)
- Subject: Re: Info on renting/buying
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.232624.26624@wixer.cactus.org>
- Organization: Real/Time Communications
- References: <921112651@danix.UUCP> <1992Nov13.181621.18688@donner.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <1550@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 23:26:24 GMT
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- In article <1550@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM> lsnow@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM (Linda Snow) writes:
- >>don't worry too much about
- >>the rent money just going into someone else's pocket, for the first
- >>couple of years of owning a house you are only putting a few dollars
- >>a month towards equity anyway.
- >
- >True. But the interest payments are tax-deductible. Rent isn't.
- Only if you file schedule A Itemized Deductions. We filed married last
- year, and we didn't make over $5,700 in interest payments, so we
- couldn't deduct them. I don't even pay that much for my house payment in
- a year, so I'll never be able to deduct interest payments on this house.
- I have a lot of good reasons to buy this house, but a tax deduction
- isn't one of them. I'm always amazed by the stress put on tax
- deductions. Some make little or no difference as compared to the cost
- (like having kids, or losing money at the stock market).
-
- jam
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