What exactly is a 170 exchange, and how can it benefit me?

Recently, an old part of the federal tax code has been increasingly used to benefit non-profits, while making sellers considerable amounts of money. It’s called a 170 exchange, and it’s time you learn about how it works. What is a 170 exchange, anyway? A 170 exchange is a real estate transaction that permits owners of real estate to sell their properties, and use some of the proceeds of that sale as a tax deduction. This is achieved due to its status as a charitable donation, as the owner sells their property to an entity that is a registered non-profit. The…

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Avoid Developing Chronic Back Pain With These Tips

There is a running joke that once one turns thirty years old, this person wakes up the next morning with the back of an eighty year old. This highlights how our modern life is actually accelerating the deterioration of our spinal health. In the past, people stayed active long until their twilight years, but modern office dwellers are now spending too many hours sitting and being sedentary. They sit in offices and at their homes, neglecting their backbone’s condition. The good news is that it does not have to be this way. Experienced neurosurgeon Dr. Joseph Yazdi offers some advice…

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Four Healthy Lifestyle Hacks to Ensure Your Efficiency in the Workplace

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Let’s face it: we could all be a little bit more efficient at work, couldn’t we? This rings true whether you consider yourself an office monkey or are steadily working from home. After all, given the sheer amount of time anyone spends at their job, doesn’t it make more sense to work smarter and not necessarily harder? Tiredness, boredom and sluggishness can have a huge impact on our workplace productivity. If you feel that you’re slacking off at work, there’s a good chance that the symptoms of your laziness aren’t coming from the daily grind, but rather your health habits.…

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Making sustainability work: The 3 pillars

It’s a term that’s branded around aplenty, but ask most people to define sustainability and you might be greeted with blank looks. This is something which has donned the construction industry for years and in truth, it’s hugely important in the development of real estate. We were recently taking a look at the findings of Clay Hutson, a real estate agent in Seattle, who immediately raised the point that he was associated with Sustainable Seattle. It made us realize even more how much the industry appreciate sustainability and attempt to preach it – even if it might not always make…

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Planning to save: How to prepare for the year-end

As the old saying goes, there are only two things certain in life, death and… Yeah, you know the rest. While it might be impossible to avoid taxes, there are most certainly ways that you can plan and increase your after-tax returns. We’re not talking about anything that’s illegal here either, or anything that would be deemed as borderline. Any reputable accountant, with Steve Pybrum being a prime example, will provide suggestions to clients on how to use the country’s tax code properly and effectively. To give a better idea of what we mean, we’ll now go through some of…

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