Tag: property taxes
![House model on wood table](https://crr.bc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Wooden-houses-in-a-row-1536x1024.jpeg)
But the step-up in basis at death for income taxation acts as a disincentive. As you know, I’m convinced that many of today’s workers are at risk of having insufficient resources in retirement. The reason for this gloomy picture is a rapidly changing retirement landscape defined by a rising Social Security retirement age, a shar…
![Stacking gold coins with growing interest value put in a wooden home model and bar and arrow graph](https://crr.bc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Stacking-gold-coins-with-growing-interest-value-put-in-a-wooden-home-model-and-bar-and-arrow-graph-1536x1024.jpeg)
Extensive education, easy application process, and a reasonable interest rate are the keys to success. I am a great fan of thinking about the house as a retirement asset and about ways that people can access the equity in their home to support themselves in retirement. The conventional approaches involve downsizing to a cheaper home,…