Tax loopholes closed
New tax laws are making life difficult for speculators hoping to make easy money in the residential market.
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Prepay mortgage or invest, that's the question (Bankrate.com via Yahoo! Finance) The short answer is, it depends, says Bankrate's financial expert Greg McBride.via
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