In CA, my state, the threshold is $150,000 date of death value of all assets, regardless of equity.I would not want to begin to speculate what Lousiana's Napoleonic laws are.

Your brother will maintain your cost basis in the gifted shares, and you will have to file a gift tax return which will reduce your tax free estate upon death. 2.

He was in bed and having bathroom trips the day after and still couldn't drive.

Sometimes, they're not even bad decisions at all, but become untenable situations due to divorce, death or disability.The rent is a current operating expense.

HUD dictates occupancy in housing and has guidelines as to size of rooms required for a bedroom, as I recall it's 70/80 sq ft at least 7' wide (allowing a bed) and ceiling averaging 7' or more in that calculation (like attic spaces).There are gender and age requirements, where small girls and boys can double up but older kids must have their own room or be with the same gender.

Insurance agency, tax preparer, financial advisors, travel agency, hair salon, tanning beds, bead store, plumbing supply store, think about big stores you have been in that don't have a lot of people in them at once.

It is an odd property, older than the other homes on the block (built in 1900), half the basement floor is dirt, and it's one of those duplex sized buildings that was instead divided into four small 1-bed units which I occasionally see in the older neighborhoods of Milwaukee.

If we only worked with investors, most of us would starve to death.

Any treatment for bedbugs is only effective if all clothing and bedding is also treated (usually by placing in a hot drier for a couple hours).

Check obits and death index, perhaps Ancestry.com for relatives to contact.