Posts made by ritholtz

@my4mainecoons
Ok. I checked my escrow statement online. They deducted property tax payment from my balance last week. If it is not done by now, they might not be able to make it by end of year.
You can also do a payment, inform and get a refund from escrow account. I typically pay my insurance premiums and get a refund from my escrow account. I also made payment to my December month mortgage which is due by 1st Jan.
My idea is to pay 2018 and 2019 property tax payments in 2019 and use standard deduction for year 2018 taxes. Not sure how much it will help. Every bit helps.

@crabbing said in Steps to take in 2017 for the upcoming tax changes:

i’m still trying to figure out if my family would benefit from prepaying property taxes, but i have a preliminary question: my mortgage bank pays my taxes through an escrow account. is there an easy way to inform them, if i make the 2d 2017 tax payment myself?

of course, it’d be nice if i can get them to hold less in escrow, so that more of my payments go to paying down the debt, but i can only hope for so much.

Can you pay 2018 property taxes by end of 2017? Looks like I might not be able to take advantage of this. According to new IRS guidelines, county suppose to complete tax assessments. My county is going to do assessments in April/May time frame.My other option is to club 2 years of property tax payments into one year and switch to standard deduction other year.

My property taxes are paid for 2017 by escrow account holder during last week. They typically pay up by end of year. You can check it in your escrow account.

@cpaynter said in How will the new tax bill affect your taxes?:

@fasttimes said in How will the new tax bill affect your taxes?:

On a personal note, I find this plan to be disgraceful. I don’t need a tax cut. The wealthy certainly don’t need a tax cut. It boggles the mind that people who make 50k a year still support Trump. I heard on the radio the average “savings” for people under 75k a year is $18 a week. Don’t spend it all in one place.

I’m glad you’re flush enough to not need a tax break. I’ll say it, I need a tax break. I’m tapped out. And instead I get a $250 tax increase. I’ll gladly take $18 over a $250 increase.

Agree with you. I am not going to think about what rich people are going to save. I am happy as long as I save something. My savings are going to be limited as we are doing itemize. But I think, we can club our property taxes and save some money every alternate year. Those bracket changes should help us to save something. Not sure if we are going to save anything from obama care tax. I remember, there was a email from HR about extra tax when obama care became law. May be it will go away from next year.

@meed18
Thanks for information. I have AAA and discover accounts. I guess, interest rate is going to be same for both type of accounts. Thinking of closing AAA account and keeping discover account.

We got bonus for AA and discover saving accounts. Are we good to close these accounts? Can we close and reapply again?

Thanks

@ma-barker
Some people talked about opening multiple savings account and getting bonus for each of them here.

@ma-barker
Thanks Barker. We have received our bonus for both the accounts (regular and AAA). We can open another regular savings account without closing any of existing accounts and still get another bonus?

@ma-barker
I went to the branch. But they are going to charge fee for CC funding. Bank person told me, they are going to extend this promotion. I applied online using CC funding. I do not see any update so far.

@ma-barker
Hi,
Can we open more than one account and get multiple bonus. So far we got bonus for regular account and waiting for AAA account bonus to post.

@honkinggoose
Can we open more than one account of same type and get bonus for each of them. So far I only got bonus for regular account. I am yet to get bonus posted for AAA account.

Hi gwraigty and meed18,
Thanks for the information.

@ma-barker
Thanks for the information. I am going to use same log in credentials and apply for AAA. This month end is the last date for promotion. I am not sure if i am going to get both. I am yet to get regular account bonus. Hopefully we will get everything. Are these external accounts added to discovery account shared between accounts?

@fivetalents
Sure. Feel free to move it to appropriate forum.

Thanks

@ma-barker
Thanks. Is better to create new discover account for AAA savings account instead of using account for existing discover customer login information? Does it allow more than one user account with same SSN.

Thanks

I am looking for guidance on student college savings account. I need to start doing lot of thing financially (student collage tax saving account, life insurance, mortgage insurance, investing 401k and investing money in bank account). Met a person in Edward Jones. He is asking for 5% commission to start student education saving account. If I open account with 20k, i am going to start with negative 5% lost from day one. I am looking for some alternatives where i won’t loose much money to start saving for student education.

Thanks

@ma-barker
Hi,
Thanks for the information. We haven’t received any bonus so far. We can transfer back money to other bank open AAA accounts right? I am assuming there is no need to keep waiting with 20k balance until we get bonus.

Thanks

@ma-barker
Hi, We have opened regular Disc acct by funding 20k. Deposit process is complete. Is it ok to move most of this money to some other bank and fund it to open AAA Disc acct.

Thanks,
Narasimha Kanagala

@david-scubadiver
We have invested in fixed assets in another place which are very difficult to liquidate. No stock investments. We have little bit in 401k, bank accounts and in Home equity. Is it too late to start investing in stock market in terms of age (40’s). We were too cautions. Though With good income and savings we could not make much out of our savings by being over cautions. That is kinda very disappointing when I look back.

Thanks

@ma-barker
Thanks Barker. I used code from their webpage. Application populates old code by default. But I changed it ST17. Message about the promotion showed up in confirmation page while applying for it. Is it ok to apply for AAA savings account and multiple accounts for address?
Thanks

@mnsweeps
I would like to know as well. Opened 2 regular accounts. One each for me and spouse. Would like to open 2 AAA accounts. Is it fine to open this many accounts with same address.

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@turtlebug
I opened regular account for me and spouse. Code for regular account (not AAA) is ST17 . Is it ok to open 2 accounts with same household address. I would like to open another 2 accounts with AAA savings account. Is it fine? We will end up having 4 accounts in total. Please let me know. This is my post post in this forum.