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Originally Posted by EdFNJ
And yet another first post from someone who joined this forum 5 years ago. Where have all these posters been all these years!? Welcome back!  Anyway, an internet forum isn't the place to go for that type of advice. If I told you I was a tax accountant and estate attorney, would you do what I said? Hopefully not but I'd bet you are aware of that. |
Aw, c’mon, Ed, please lighten up. Sometimes people do not know where to start and asking old (er, more experienced) people can be a way to at least get a handle on where to begin — by getting ideas for what kind of questions to ask a professional.
Picking up a little of the pertinent vocabulary, and knowing what you don’t know, before going into a meeting with a professional, really can help. Nothing wrong with doing a little homework first.
I always preface my posts on such matters as this one by telling the poster who asked that I am not the kind of professional they need. But, yeah, I give them some starting points if I can and try to send them off in the right direction.
And, I can never resist the chance to write an Ode to the Tax Relief Act of 1997 — that sure made a big difference in our real estate transactions with primary residences since.
As far as the date of joining goes, maybe they had no reason to post before. (Not everybody likes to goof off writing posts like I do when I am at home procrastinating instead of doing useful stuff.) Also, I sometimes wonder if there are those who do not want to be told to Google or to pay for a professional or get other snarky answers to their posts.
Also, as far as spotting join dates is concerned, I don’t wonder about the old join dates. I sometimes wonder though about the more recent ones — but only if the newer poster seems to have showed up only to pursue their one-track agenda. They stand out to me like sore thumbs. Some of those one-note samba posters are not as new as they want us to think they are though. Patterns of writing can look awfully familiar sometimes. So I guess everybody’s got somethin’ they see — if they have been around here long enough.
Oh well, I need to shut up now because I still have tax stuff to get together for us — to give to a CPA.
Boomer