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Can't Pay Credit Card Bills? Try To Use Home Equity Loan

Added August 5, 2009 by Ilyce R. Glink

If you can't pay your credit card bills or your real estate taxes, you may be able to try to take out a home equity loan to get cash to pay your bills. However, home equity loans are increasingly hard to get from banks right now. If you find that you can't pay your credit card bills and other bills, you might want to consider selling your home and use the equity to pay off your credit card bills and property taxes.

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1031 Exchange - Recapture Depreciation Tax

September 25, 2008

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When you own an asset for business or investment use you can claim some depreciation as that asset drops in value. When you later sell that asset the IRS wants to get back, or recapture, some of the depreciation. Our 1031 exchange expert explains how recapture depreciation tax works.

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