I admit to using a CPA to do my annual tax return(s). Perhaps somewhat due to laziness, but mostly due to my significant other's lack of faith in me to do it correctly. JeffD
funny you'd mention - having practiced in fed tax court back in the day, the better ½ no longer lets our taxes get done by yours truly. After learning lessons the hard way, it's less flack - not correcting the CPA when they don't know of something recent, it's better to just bite one's tongue rather than face the consequences of the better ½. Many of them now simply rely on tax software to know what they don't know - as do run-of-the-milll accountants. Soon all of these crafts will be relying on AI anyway, one supposes.
True. Again, when I use the WealthSimple tax program, it proposes to populate a lot of the fields with info from Revenue Canada, which I do. Which begs the question: if they already know all this stuff...
Happy Wife, Happy Life..... Whatever the CPA misses will be cheaper than marriage counseling, a divorce lawyer, and a HECK OF A LOT CHEAPER than half your stuff.
Real estate listing picture, for a nearby house: I was impressed, till I walked over and took my own picture:
I was going to trot out all the things I’ve noticed, but then thought why be a hog. Anyway, I’ll start: The driveway lost all its cracks and weeds.
Assuming Mendel stood in the same place as the other photographer, the whole house, driveway, and yard got twisted slightly counterclockwise
Hello RJ! Pardon me I tried to private message you but for some reason it was not working. Folks on Reddit told me to reach out to you as I am in Austin, Texas and am looking for someone to do an EGR system cleaning
Well for one thing - the driveway asphalt / pavement is shot as mentioned above, plus garage doors look a little sketchy, side fence is dilapidated & weeds growing up between the slats. We've had scores of listing over the decades, & always had sellers use our contract painters & gardeners to clean things up, roll in a lawn, plant flowers Etc with the teaching that the touch-ups will pay for themselves.
More perspective: the lawn hasn’t been mowed for at least a year, and with our hot/dry summers came to a standstill, about a foot of scraggly scrub. Still thus. There’s a short section of fence and gate to the right of the house, or is there? There does seem to be remnants of the push mower propped against the fence there, in the realtor’s pic.
What I see is a low res pic in the summer with a high sun vs a high res pic in the winter with a low sun. Maybe an unoccupied house.
Over the past decade or so, a lot of people have purchased homes around here sight unseen. I’m sure there were a lot of surprises. I would never do, without an in person inspection. But when houses sell in a day at auction, it is difficult
With most States having a right of you refusal within an x amount of days - sellers would be morons to accept buyers that are sight unseen. We never allowed that on our listings.
I have a friend who does real estate photography. He has software that turns a dismal cloudy day into a sunny one with puffy white clouds, and makes the grass greener, etc. He also takes amazing photos of wildlife, but that's probably less profitable. Your version made the trees in the far background less uniform and more scraggly.
Yep.been there done that Our neighbor 2 doors down demo'd their house. We sold 2 doors down w/the demo looking like a grassy lot via photos hop.