The intent is to help my brother get started with setting up a design-driven development business, single family homes.

I predict this will led to a slight uptick in housing sales, driven by the modest decrease in interest rates.As for future interest rate trends, opinions vary.

It helps in that, it means something positive about my character and that makes someone feel good about themselves which in turn drives motivation.

It’s not really about age though in my experience, I’ve even seen brand new builds with black mold in the walls, sewer lines broken by having heavy equipment driven over them, 1inch gaps between the wall and the window that you can see daylight through, testing positive for meth, etc.

Most people are driven by self-interest and people selling investments are no different.

I think it's a character flaw!

Credit Score Driven but you can get a 5/1 7/1 or 30 year fixed Rates will be in the mid 7's to mid 8's typically 

I work with a several extremely data driven investors.

So I see a lot of questions about ways to lower taxes.Remember, the objective is not to minimize your tax liability as much as it is to maximize the net present value of the transaction.As someone once told me an interview that I did not get the job for, mouths get fed with cash.Tax planning is really a legal structuring and restructuring of a transaction so as to maximize the net present value of said transaction.Remember when I restructure the transaction I restructure cash flow.But those cash flows and their values from a tax standpoint are often based on timing, character, taxpayers involved, and jurisdictions among other things such as risk profile.When I adjust those factors I am adjusting the value of the transaction (expected future benefits), e.g., a deduction taken earlier at the maximum ordinary rate in a state with no income state is more valuable than a suspended long-term capital loss (oversimplified but not a terrible example).

Helvetia in particular is an area settled by Swiss and German immigrants and retains much of that character.