Difference of opinion between siblings. Mom and dad are buying a house in town and keeping the farm in the country (15 mile drive) that they will someday sell. Advice by one sibling was given to sell mutual funds to pay for the house in full in town. I advised that they take out a conventional home loan, hang onto the stocks until the market comes back and then sell the stock as needed. I feel that they would more than recover the closing costs in a few years and have an interest write off. Parents are in late 60's/ early 70's. Am I off base?
Wasn't terrible at a state park beach. Antelope island maybe. I wouldn't recommend it as a beach destination tho. Figured I was there, I'm getting in it.
The water looked and smelled disgusting with hundreds of thousands of birds sh*tting in there. About as gross as the Salton Sea. When I duck hunted there I didn't even want to touch the water.
It's kinda gross with the algae in the summer but I got in it anyway. Wanted to see the increased bouyancy at work. You can kinda tuck yourself into a ball and you'll just float with your head above water. When dry off you look diamond encrusted with the salt.
We went to the flats too. I dipped a tire on the rental car onto it just to say I’ve been there,but it was still pretty soft from winter melt. After seeing some moron in a BMW suv get dragged out of the muck I had no intention of repeating his stupidity.
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Difference of opinion between siblings. Mom and dad are buying a house in town and keeping the farm in the country (15 mile drive) that they will someday sell. Advice by one sibling was given to sell mutual funds to pay for the house in full in town. I advised that they take out a conventional home loan, hang onto the stocks until the market comes back and then sell the stock as needed. I feel that they would more than recover the closing costs in a few years and have an interest write off. Parents are in late 60's/ early 70's. Am I off base?
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