Louisiana Representative Jim McCrery said the provision could hurt housing markets in coastal communities.Tightens QualificationThe realtors association told lawmakers in a letter last week that the vacation-home provision ``does not eliminate any tax benefit but rather tightens the requirement'' for qualifying for the exclusion from capital-gains taxation on the sale of a home.U.S. law generally allows married homeowners to exclude as much as $500,000 in profit on the sale of a second home, provided the owners have lived in it for at least two out of the previous five years.

While you are likely postponing the inevitable tax, at least you can grow it a little in the meantime.Dustin07 exchanging can turn into a tax exclusion if done correctly with a good estate plan or tax advisor.

Her two handicapped adult daughters live with her and she's 75 or so.

I market them and they are exclusively for primary residence-owner occupied transactions---it's a great program for light rehab projects...Regards,Scott Miller

There are numerous tax-deferral and tax-exclusion strategies available to the investor.

The idea is that you have fresh, new, exclusive properties that you can wholesale to your group of investors.My take is that it's a good idea and the business model is legit.

SIOR is the most exclusive designation (it's invitation only and heavily performance and experience qualified, whereas CCIM is effectively entirely education based).

But I have forgotten that this forum does not have that many real estate agents.There are actually quite a few agents here, but we are not a site exclusively composed of agents like others out there.

Zaio's response is the trash is picked up every week from every address (more or less) so visiting all the property once a year is not that hard.They are using what I will call a Dell model and charging appraisers and photographers a fee for exclusive territories.

Along with a few partners, we contacted developppers in Dubai and struck exclusive reselling rights for North America.