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Ah the bookstore! They are certainly wonderful places to browse for books, but they are also an intellectual place of refuge, and on one of our rare rainy days, a great escape. But unfortunately, bookstores have become rare gems, we only have one left in the North Tahoe-Truckee area (and a few good ones in nearby Reno). While The Bookshelf closed it’s Tahoe City operation last year, it has moved it’s Truckee store to just a few doors down from Wild Cherries. There you can still thumb through the latest best seller, or get some staff tips on books to read, but perhaps most importantly, you can pick up a copy of one of our regional titles. Need a guidebook to the local hiking trails, or a tome on the colorful history of our area? The bookshelf will have that. And you might just have the opportunity to meet the author at a book signing or slide presentation at the store as well.
If this bookstore, is to remain a vibrant part of Truckee, however, we not only have to enjoy their great ambiance, but on the way out the door must actually pull out our credit cards and buy books. Supporting our local bookstores provides a win-win-win situation. We get to have a bookstore in Truckee to wander through, we sustain a local small business and it’s employees, and we support a community of local writers who produce the reading material that helps us better understand our beautiful little corner of the world. So next time you hit Wild Cherries for your afternoon cup of Joe, pick up something to read first.
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Over the next few years, the provisions of the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, will go into effect, as well as new tax measures to pay for the program. The tax of most concern to those selling real estate, is a 3.8% tax on investment income, which includes interest, dividends, rents as well as the capital gains from the sale of real estate. This tax goes into effect starting January 1, 2013.
To correct some of the misconceptions about the tax, the National Association of Realtors created the attached Q and A, which makes it clear that this tax is not a new real estate or transfer tax collected upon the sale of property. Instead the tax applies to capital gains (not the sales price) on the sale of real estate and other investment income, and it only applies to sellers with high incomes who meet a number of other criteria. After reviewing the attached information from the NAR, it is important that any seller contact their financial advisor to review all aspects of the law before making financial decisions. Below are two sites for you to review.
http://www.realtor.org/small_business_health_coverage.nsf/pages/health_ref_faq_med_tax?
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People who live in the Tahoe/Truckee area are thankful for the same things that people are thankful for everywhere: Spending time with family and friends, good health, a job and just being able to live in America.
Tahoe/Truckee folks are also thankful for being able to live here, not only for Tahoe’s natural beauty and nearly unlimited recreational opportunities, but because the people who live here, moved here because it is a place of beauty and fun. It is rare to find someone who came to Tahoe for a job. They moved here for the lifestyle, and then found a niche that allows them to make a living. I mean, where else but the Tahoe/Truckee region could a statement like this seem totally normal: “Oh man, I’ve skied six days in a row…I need to take tomorrow off and go to work.” Now of course between selling real estate and raising children I’ve never been able to make a statement like that myself, but isn’t it awesome to live in a place where people can actually say that?
I thank my lucky stars that I have spent most of my life at Tahoe, and that I am able to raise my children here. Hey, I am even thankful that my twin children just got their drivers licenses. So while we are raising a glass to family, love, friends and good health this Thanksgiving, don’t forget to mention this beautiful place we call Tahoe and Truckee.
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