[TemekuT]

Carlsbadworker, I am a CPA and a Real Estate Broker. I am not currently in practice in either field. I am baffled by your characterization of crooked CPA’s. I believe you are referring to crooked tax preparers, and there are lots of those out there. A tax preparer takes a “Mickey Mouse” course and another “Mickey Mouse” state exam and, voila, can hang up his/her shingle. My apologies to any tax preparer on this board, but it is what it is. I know, I took the qualifying tax preparer course online a couple of years ago just as a refresher and I was shocked at the lack of depth of the coursework. From what I know of CPA’s, the crooks are few and far between. Believe me, no CPA in their right mind would risk that license and I personally have never encountered any CPA that would fake tax returns. It’s just not worth it after what you go through to get the license, which consists of a Bachelor’s degree, many units of accounting and other business classes, a 2 year internship or the equivalent via a 5th year of accounting classes, a 3 day exam equivalent to the Bar exam, and the oversight of the State Board of Accountancy, which does police its members and responds swiftly and harshly to complaints, unlike the DRE. I was involved in a State Board of Accountancy investigation several years ago as a witness because I had prepared a portion of a tax return in which the principals had accused my boss of malpractice and I saw firsthand how promptly the complaint was responded to and how rigorous the investigation was. In fact, if you go to the State Board website and look up a licensee, you can see if there has been any action against that person.

Now that I’ve defended the CPA profession (I never defend the real estate profession, it is overrun with crooks!), let’s move on to your situation. I don’t give tax advice as my license is in inactive status, but your description leads me to believe that a good mass marketed tax prep program such as TurboTax would work quite well for you. It appears that you do not need more than the most basic $49 TurboTax package.

I hope you are enjoying Temeku Hills. I lived there for a year and own rental property there. It is a beautiful community and has the benefit of a vigilant HOA.

[TemekuT]

Carlsbadworker, I am a CPA and a Real Estate Broker. I am not currently in practice in either field. I am baffled by your characterization of crooked CPA’s. I believe you are referring to crooked tax preparers, and there are lots of those out there. A tax preparer takes a “Mickey Mouse” course and another “Mickey Mouse” state exam and, voila, can hang up his/her shingle. My apologies to any tax preparer on this board, but it is what it is. I know, I took the qualifying tax preparer course online a couple of years ago just as a refresher and I was shocked at the lack of depth of the coursework. From what I know of CPA’s, the crooks are few and far between. Believe me, no CPA in their right mind would risk that license and I personally have never encountered any CPA that would fake tax returns. It’s just not worth it after what you go through to get the license, which consists of a Bachelor’s degree, many units of accounting and other business classes, a 2 year internship or the equivalent via a 5th year of accounting classes, a 3 day exam equivalent to the Bar exam, and the oversight of the State Board of Accountancy, which does police its members and responds swiftly and harshly to complaints, unlike the DRE. I was involved in a State Board of Accountancy investigation several years ago as a witness because I had prepared a portion of a tax return in which the principals had accused my boss of malpractice and I saw firsthand how promptly the complaint was responded to and how rigorous the investigation was. In fact, if you go to the State Board website and look up a licensee, you can see if there has been any action against that person.

Now that I’ve defended the CPA profession (I never defend the real estate profession, it is overrun with crooks!), let’s move on to your situation. I don’t give tax advice as my license is in inactive status, but your description leads me to believe that a good mass marketed tax prep program such as TurboTax would work quite well for you. It appears that you do not need more than the most basic $49 TurboTax package.

I hope you are enjoying Temeku Hills. I lived there for a year and own rental property there. It is a beautiful community and has the benefit of a vigilant HOA.

[TemekuT]

Carlsbadworker, I am a CPA and a Real Estate Broker. I am not currently in practice in either field. I am baffled by your characterization of crooked CPA’s. I believe you are referring to crooked tax preparers, and there are lots of those out there. A tax preparer takes a “Mickey Mouse” course and another “Mickey Mouse” state exam and, voila, can hang up his/her shingle. My apologies to any tax preparer on this board, but it is what it is. I know, I took the qualifying tax preparer course online a couple of years ago just as a refresher and I was shocked at the lack of depth of the coursework. From what I know of CPA’s, the crooks are few and far between. Believe me, no CPA in their right mind would risk that license and I personally have never encountered any CPA that would fake tax returns. It’s just not worth it after what you go through to get the license, which consists of a Bachelor’s degree, many units of accounting and other business classes, a 2 year internship or the equivalent via a 5th year of accounting classes, a 3 day exam equivalent to the Bar exam, and the oversight of the State Board of Accountancy, which does police its members and responds swiftly and harshly to complaints, unlike the DRE. I was involved in a State Board of Accountancy investigation several years ago as a witness because I had prepared a portion of a tax return in which the principals had accused my boss of malpractice and I saw firsthand how promptly the complaint was responded to and how rigorous the investigation was. In fact, if you go to the State Board website and look up a licensee, you can see if there has been any action against that person.

Now that I’ve defended the CPA profession (I never defend the real estate profession, it is overrun with crooks!), let’s move on to your situation. I don’t give tax advice as my license is in inactive status, but your description leads me to believe that a good mass marketed tax prep program such as TurboTax would work quite well for you. It appears that you do not need more than the most basic $49 TurboTax package.

I hope you are enjoying Temeku Hills. I lived there for a year and own rental property there. It is a beautiful community and has the benefit of a vigilant HOA.

[TemekuT]

Carlsbadworker, I am a CPA and a Real Estate Broker. I am not currently in practice in either field. I am baffled by your characterization of crooked CPA’s. I believe you are referring to crooked tax preparers, and there are lots of those out there. A tax preparer takes a “Mickey Mouse” course and another “Mickey Mouse” state exam and, voila, can hang up his/her shingle. My apologies to any tax preparer on this board, but it is what it is. I know, I took the qualifying tax preparer course online a couple of years ago just as a refresher and I was shocked at the lack of depth of the coursework. From what I know of CPA’s, the crooks are few and far between. Believe me, no CPA in their right mind would risk that license and I personally have never encountered any CPA that would fake tax returns. It’s just not worth it after what you go through to get the license, which consists of a Bachelor’s degree, many units of accounting and other business classes, a 2 year internship or the equivalent via a 5th year of accounting classes, a 3 day exam equivalent to the Bar exam, and the oversight of the State Board of Accountancy, which does police its members and responds swiftly and harshly to complaints, unlike the DRE. I was involved in a State Board of Accountancy investigation several years ago as a witness because I had prepared a portion of a tax return in which the principals had accused my boss of malpractice and I saw firsthand how promptly the complaint was responded to and how rigorous the investigation was. In fact, if you go to the State Board website and look up a licensee, you can see if there has been any action against that person.

Now that I’ve defended the CPA profession (I never defend the real estate profession, it is overrun with crooks!), let’s move on to your situation. I don’t give tax advice as my license is in inactive status, but your description leads me to believe that a good mass marketed tax prep program such as TurboTax would work quite well for you. It appears that you do not need more than the most basic $49 TurboTax package.

I hope you are enjoying Temeku Hills. I lived there for a year and own rental property there. It is a beautiful community and has the benefit of a vigilant HOA.

[TemekuT]

Carlsbadworker, I am a CPA and a Real Estate Broker. I am not currently in practice in either field. I am baffled by your characterization of crooked CPA’s. I believe you are referring to crooked tax preparers, and there are lots of those out there. A tax preparer takes a “Mickey Mouse” course and another “Mickey Mouse” state exam and, voila, can hang up his/her shingle. My apologies to any tax preparer on this board, but it is what it is. I know, I took the qualifying tax preparer course online a couple of years ago just as a refresher and I was shocked at the lack of depth of the coursework. From what I know of CPA’s, the crooks are few and far between. Believe me, no CPA in their right mind would risk that license and I personally have never encountered any CPA that would fake tax returns. It’s just not worth it after what you go through to get the license, which consists of a Bachelor’s degree, many units of accounting and other business classes, a 2 year internship or the equivalent via a 5th year of accounting classes, a 3 day exam equivalent to the Bar exam, and the oversight of the State Board of Accountancy, which does police its members and responds swiftly and harshly to complaints, unlike the DRE. I was involved in a State Board of Accountancy investigation several years ago as a witness because I had prepared a portion of a tax return in which the principals had accused my boss of malpractice and I saw firsthand how promptly the complaint was responded to and how rigorous the investigation was. In fact, if you go to the State Board website and look up a licensee, you can see if there has been any action against that person.

Now that I’ve defended the CPA profession (I never defend the real estate profession, it is overrun with crooks!), let’s move on to your situation. I don’t give tax advice as my license is in inactive status, but your description leads me to believe that a good mass marketed tax prep program such as TurboTax would work quite well for you. It appears that you do not need more than the most basic $49 TurboTax package.

I hope you are enjoying Temeku Hills. I lived there for a year and own rental property there. It is a beautiful community and has the benefit of a vigilant HOA.

[TemekuT]

Homeschool2boys – My comments come from a different place than many others here. I am the mom of a 31 year old and look back from the perspective of one who raised a successful and well-adjusted child. You and your wife are absolutely doing the best for the boys by home-schooling them. Contrary to what many believe (without facts and based on their prejudice for socialization at the exclusion of excellence) your children have a greater chance of excellence mentally, morally, and spiritually, as well as a unique opportunity to pursue their passions at an early age, by your home-schooling sacrifice.

If your wife were to go to work outside the home, I believe you would have 2 very stressed children due to their unique issues, which would make your wife stressed, which would spill onto you.

As far as the house, do you think it’s a good idea to disrupt your children by moving? I would counsel you to take a step backwards and refinance to a 30 year loan and then cut back on your work load.

I encounter so many parents who torture themselves with the belief that their children have no future unless they attend a prestigious university that will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. If that were the case, all of my family should be failures with our Community College or State or UC degrees. Somehow we are all doing anywhere from o.k. to “OMG can you believe how successful he/she is?” in spite of nary an Ivy League diploma among the lot. Your kids will be successful if you nurture the inner fire in them. A degree can’t do that, it is the quest for excellence instilled in early life that determines later success.

Regarding that blood pressure – I keep mine in check by walking. Not gym workouts, walking. A few miles several days per week, where I can relax and let my mind wander, does more for me than miles logged on a treadmill. I also take time for a couple of yoga sessions weekly.

I realize it’s difficult to feel that you are losing ground financially because of your decisions in favor of your family. Choose family over career; your rewards are greater long-term.

[TemekuT]

Homeschool2boys – My comments come from a different place than many others here. I am the mom of a 31 year old and look back from the perspective of one who raised a successful and well-adjusted child. You and your wife are absolutely doing the best for the boys by home-schooling them. Contrary to what many believe (without facts and based on their prejudice for socialization at the exclusion of excellence) your children have a greater chance of excellence mentally, morally, and spiritually, as well as a unique opportunity to pursue their passions at an early age, by your home-schooling sacrifice.

If your wife were to go to work outside the home, I believe you would have 2 very stressed children due to their unique issues, which would make your wife stressed, which would spill onto you.

As far as the house, do you think it’s a good idea to disrupt your children by moving? I would counsel you to take a step backwards and refinance to a 30 year loan and then cut back on your work load.

I encounter so many parents who torture themselves with the belief that their children have no future unless they attend a prestigious university that will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. If that were the case, all of my family should be failures with our Community College or State or UC degrees. Somehow we are all doing anywhere from o.k. to “OMG can you believe how successful he/she is?” in spite of nary an Ivy League diploma among the lot. Your kids will be successful if you nurture the inner fire in them. A degree can’t do that, it is the quest for excellence instilled in early life that determines later success.

Regarding that blood pressure – I keep mine in check by walking. Not gym workouts, walking. A few miles several days per week, where I can relax and let my mind wander, does more for me than miles logged on a treadmill. I also take time for a couple of yoga sessions weekly.

I realize it’s difficult to feel that you are losing ground financially because of your decisions in favor of your family. Choose family over career; your rewards are greater long-term.

[TemekuT]

Homeschool2boys – My comments come from a different place than many others here. I am the mom of a 31 year old and look back from the perspective of one who raised a successful and well-adjusted child. You and your wife are absolutely doing the best for the boys by home-schooling them. Contrary to what many believe (without facts and based on their prejudice for socialization at the exclusion of excellence) your children have a greater chance of excellence mentally, morally, and spiritually, as well as a unique opportunity to pursue their passions at an early age, by your home-schooling sacrifice.

If your wife were to go to work outside the home, I believe you would have 2 very stressed children due to their unique issues, which would make your wife stressed, which would spill onto you.

As far as the house, do you think it’s a good idea to disrupt your children by moving? I would counsel you to take a step backwards and refinance to a 30 year loan and then cut back on your work load.

I encounter so many parents who torture themselves with the belief that their children have no future unless they attend a prestigious university that will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. If that were the case, all of my family should be failures with our Community College or State or UC degrees. Somehow we are all doing anywhere from o.k. to “OMG can you believe how successful he/she is?” in spite of nary an Ivy League diploma among the lot. Your kids will be successful if you nurture the inner fire in them. A degree can’t do that, it is the quest for excellence instilled in early life that determines later success.

Regarding that blood pressure – I keep mine in check by walking. Not gym workouts, walking. A few miles several days per week, where I can relax and let my mind wander, does more for me than miles logged on a treadmill. I also take time for a couple of yoga sessions weekly.

I realize it’s difficult to feel that you are losing ground financially because of your decisions in favor of your family. Choose family over career; your rewards are greater long-term.

[TemekuT]

Homeschool2boys – My comments come from a different place than many others here. I am the mom of a 31 year old and look back from the perspective of one who raised a successful and well-adjusted child. You and your wife are absolutely doing the best for the boys by home-schooling them. Contrary to what many believe (without facts and based on their prejudice for socialization at the exclusion of excellence) your children have a greater chance of excellence mentally, morally, and spiritually, as well as a unique opportunity to pursue their passions at an early age, by your home-schooling sacrifice.

If your wife were to go to work outside the home, I believe you would have 2 very stressed children due to their unique issues, which would make your wife stressed, which would spill onto you.

As far as the house, do you think it’s a good idea to disrupt your children by moving? I would counsel you to take a step backwards and refinance to a 30 year loan and then cut back on your work load.

I encounter so many parents who torture themselves with the belief that their children have no future unless they attend a prestigious university that will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. If that were the case, all of my family should be failures with our Community College or State or UC degrees. Somehow we are all doing anywhere from o.k. to “OMG can you believe how successful he/she is?” in spite of nary an Ivy League diploma among the lot. Your kids will be successful if you nurture the inner fire in them. A degree can’t do that, it is the quest for excellence instilled in early life that determines later success.

Regarding that blood pressure – I keep mine in check by walking. Not gym workouts, walking. A few miles several days per week, where I can relax and let my mind wander, does more for me than miles logged on a treadmill. I also take time for a couple of yoga sessions weekly.

I realize it’s difficult to feel that you are losing ground financially because of your decisions in favor of your family. Choose family over career; your rewards are greater long-term.

[TemekuT]

Homeschool2boys – My comments come from a different place than many others here. I am the mom of a 31 year old and look back from the perspective of one who raised a successful and well-adjusted child. You and your wife are absolutely doing the best for the boys by home-schooling them. Contrary to what many believe (without facts and based on their prejudice for socialization at the exclusion of excellence) your children have a greater chance of excellence mentally, morally, and spiritually, as well as a unique opportunity to pursue their passions at an early age, by your home-schooling sacrifice.

If your wife were to go to work outside the home, I believe you would have 2 very stressed children due to their unique issues, which would make your wife stressed, which would spill onto you.

As far as the house, do you think it’s a good idea to disrupt your children by moving? I would counsel you to take a step backwards and refinance to a 30 year loan and then cut back on your work load.

I encounter so many parents who torture themselves with the belief that their children have no future unless they attend a prestigious university that will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. If that were the case, all of my family should be failures with our Community College or State or UC degrees. Somehow we are all doing anywhere from o.k. to “OMG can you believe how successful he/she is?” in spite of nary an Ivy League diploma among the lot. Your kids will be successful if you nurture the inner fire in them. A degree can’t do that, it is the quest for excellence instilled in early life that determines later success.

Regarding that blood pressure – I keep mine in check by walking. Not gym workouts, walking. A few miles several days per week, where I can relax and let my mind wander, does more for me than miles logged on a treadmill. I also take time for a couple of yoga sessions weekly.

I realize it’s difficult to feel that you are losing ground financially because of your decisions in favor of your family. Choose family over career; your rewards are greater long-term.

[TemekuT]

Putting my money where my mouth is and meeting no_such_reality’s criteria:

Group home 2 doors down from me, in suburban Morgan Hill, Temecula (it’s not the only group home here in this high-end Temecula tract, we are surrounded and don’t know it). This is not the first time for me; I lived in the downtown of a major city for 10 years, surrounded by halfway houses and homes for the mentally disabled, and had no problem reselling 2 condos.

Granted, this group home is not for the “mentally disabled ” (OMG, level 3-7, killwind), merely old age. People that live in this house, they wet their knickers! They drool! They forget their addresses! They look funny! Their hair is white! They can’t remember anything! They die here 2 doors down from me and the coroner discretely picks them up!

Temeculaguy, didn’t the (seller’s) agent disclose this to you? Sue, Sue, Sue!

Crap, nothing is selling on this street. 4 out of 5 homes cancel escrow. Mercy me, what can it be? A recession/depression perhaps? No, of course not. IT’S THEIR FAULT THAT MY PROPERTY VALUE HAS
PLUMMETED!

Tomorrow I’m going to knock on the group home door and ask them if I can help them in any way, or just invite them to dinner. I feel I have been remiss and killwind’s comments have jolted me into action.

[TemekuT]

Putting my money where my mouth is and meeting no_such_reality’s criteria:

Group home 2 doors down from me, in suburban Morgan Hill, Temecula (it’s not the only group home here in this high-end Temecula tract, we are surrounded and don’t know it). This is not the first time for me; I lived in the downtown of a major city for 10 years, surrounded by halfway houses and homes for the mentally disabled, and had no problem reselling 2 condos.

Granted, this group home is not for the “mentally disabled ” (OMG, level 3-7, killwind), merely old age. People that live in this house, they wet their knickers! They drool! They forget their addresses! They look funny! Their hair is white! They can’t remember anything! They die here 2 doors down from me and the coroner discretely picks them up!

Temeculaguy, didn’t the (seller’s) agent disclose this to you? Sue, Sue, Sue!

Crap, nothing is selling on this street. 4 out of 5 homes cancel escrow. Mercy me, what can it be? A recession/depression perhaps? No, of course not. IT’S THEIR FAULT THAT MY PROPERTY VALUE HAS
PLUMMETED!

Tomorrow I’m going to knock on the group home door and ask them if I can help them in any way, or just invite them to dinner. I feel I have been remiss and killwind’s comments have jolted me into action.

[TemekuT]

Putting my money where my mouth is and meeting no_such_reality’s criteria:

Group home 2 doors down from me, in suburban Morgan Hill, Temecula (it’s not the only group home here in this high-end Temecula tract, we are surrounded and don’t know it). This is not the first time for me; I lived in the downtown of a major city for 10 years, surrounded by halfway houses and homes for the mentally disabled, and had no problem reselling 2 condos.

Granted, this group home is not for the “mentally disabled ” (OMG, level 3-7, killwind), merely old age. People that live in this house, they wet their knickers! They drool! They forget their addresses! They look funny! Their hair is white! They can’t remember anything! They die here 2 doors down from me and the coroner discretely picks them up!

Temeculaguy, didn’t the (seller’s) agent disclose this to you? Sue, Sue, Sue!

Crap, nothing is selling on this street. 4 out of 5 homes cancel escrow. Mercy me, what can it be? A recession/depression perhaps? No, of course not. IT’S THEIR FAULT THAT MY PROPERTY VALUE HAS
PLUMMETED!

Tomorrow I’m going to knock on the group home door and ask them if I can help them in any way, or just invite them to dinner. I feel I have been remiss and killwind’s comments have jolted me into action.

[TemekuT]

Putting my money where my mouth is and meeting no_such_reality’s criteria:

Group home 2 doors down from me, in suburban Morgan Hill, Temecula (it’s not the only group home here in this high-end Temecula tract, we are surrounded and don’t know it). This is not the first time for me; I lived in the downtown of a major city for 10 years, surrounded by halfway houses and homes for the mentally disabled, and had no problem reselling 2 condos.

Granted, this group home is not for the “mentally disabled ” (OMG, level 3-7, killwind), merely old age. People that live in this house, they wet their knickers! They drool! They forget their addresses! They look funny! Their hair is white! They can’t remember anything! They die here 2 doors down from me and the coroner discretely picks them up!

Temeculaguy, didn’t the (seller’s) agent disclose this to you? Sue, Sue, Sue!

Crap, nothing is selling on this street. 4 out of 5 homes cancel escrow. Mercy me, what can it be? A recession/depression perhaps? No, of course not. IT’S THEIR FAULT THAT MY PROPERTY VALUE HAS
PLUMMETED!

Tomorrow I’m going to knock on the group home door and ask them if I can help them in any way, or just invite them to dinner. I feel I have been remiss and killwind’s comments have jolted me into action.

[TemekuT]

Putting my money where my mouth is and meeting no_such_reality’s criteria:

Group home 2 doors down from me, in suburban Morgan Hill, Temecula (it’s not the only group home here in this high-end Temecula tract, we are surrounded and don’t know it). This is not the first time for me; I lived in the downtown of a major city for 10 years, surrounded by halfway houses and homes for the mentally disabled, and had no problem reselling 2 condos.

Granted, this group home is not for the “mentally disabled ” (OMG, level 3-7, killwind), merely old age. People that live in this house, they wet their knickers! They drool! They forget their addresses! They look funny! Their hair is white! They can’t remember anything! They die here 2 doors down from me and the coroner discretely picks them up!

Temeculaguy, didn’t the (seller’s) agent disclose this to you? Sue, Sue, Sue!

Crap, nothing is selling on this street. 4 out of 5 homes cancel escrow. Mercy me, what can it be? A recession/depression perhaps? No, of course not. IT’S THEIR FAULT THAT MY PROPERTY VALUE HAS
PLUMMETED!

Tomorrow I’m going to knock on the group home door and ask them if I can help them in any way, or just invite them to dinner. I feel I have been remiss and killwind’s comments have jolted me into action.

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