Plano Real Estate
Is your private information safe? Before a Plano home goes on the market and home buyers begin to come through the door, smart sellers will put away confidential and sensitive information. You might be astonished to learn what “home buyers” can learn about you as they are looking at your home.
Your Private Documents
- Some potential home buyers will open your drawers and cabinets.
Buyers can innocently, or on purpose, pull open a drawer or cabinet to inspect its construction, or size and come across important personal documents that you might not intend for anyone to see.
- Don’t leave mail sitting out where a potential buyer can find it.
Many sellers leave piles of opened mail stacked on their kitchen counter. A pote
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Kids grow up fast, too fast in most cases. At least faster than you can get their college tuition saved up. And doesn’t it seem like every year, college tuition increases to the tune of 6% or more? We’ve taken a look at some of these concerns in a few recent articles on the subject of affording student loan payments and college costs.
Image from Seattle Pacific University
In most cases, I’m doing well to make sure that every bill I have is paid for every month, while I sock some money away for retirement, and defer some funds for college tuition.
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Forcing pubs and bars to pay a “law and order” tax to open later could devastate the Brighton and Hove night-time economy, it has been claimed.
The Government is reviewing licensing laws in a bid to tackle antisocial behaviour caused since roundthe- clock drinking was introduced.
It is understood Home Secretary Theresa May wants late-night bars to help pay for the cost of controlling alcohol-related violence, with councils given the power to charge premises additional fees for late-night licences.
However, many venues across Brighton and Hove are already struggling to stay in business because of plummeting consumer spending.
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Reams of books have been written about reducing and streamlining expenses for small business in order to increase net profits. However, staying solvent isn’t the only goal. Most small businesses overlook money-making opportunities that can be generated through their regular expenses. A creative and clever entrepreneur can find ways to make a profit and develop revenue streams that are outside the normal business paradigms. Here are a few examples.
Turn Your Rent Into Cash
Do you rent an office or warehouse? Do you use every square foot of it? Many small businesses have extra space that just goes wasted. T
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Fair Credit Act
Last year the FTC and federal banking agencies passed the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act Furnisher Rules which imposes major new responsibilities for lenders, servicers, collectors and other financial institutions that report information to credit bureaus like Transunion, Equifax and Experian. 
On July 1st, 2010 these new rules go into effect and needless to say they are long overdue. H
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By Brian Madigan LL.B.
(Ontario Real Estate Source)
In accordance with the provisions of Division D of the Income Tax Act, non residents are taxed upon the disposition of taxable Canadian property. The definition set forth in s.115 includes real estate.
Since the potential taxpayor is out of the country, the collection of any tax arising upon the sale becomes problematic. Consequently, the Canada Revenue Agency relies upon s.116 for assistance.
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