| BeJane.com: 7 Tips for Organizing Your Home Office
Is your home office a complete and utter mess? Do you always meet clients someplace (anyplace!) other than your office? If this is you, not to worry - you're not alone. With all your files, supplies, samples and other paperwork, it is easy to let your home office get out of control. But with only a little planning, you can bid goodbye to a chaotic and unproductive home office.Go BigTake a look at your home office. Is it a mish mash of furniture, boxes, and files? Alternately, perhaps you are in the process of converting a spare room into an office and your space is completely bare. Either way a multi-piece station may be the answer. Consider a desk that fits around the entire room that sits against the walls. They're available at home organization stores and include shelving, desks, chairs, and storage knick knacks.
Homeowners Take First-Ever Tax Deduction for Mortgage Insurance
Many qualified taxpayers are preparing to claim their first-ever tax deduction for mortgage insurance premiums on home loans that closed in 2007. The tax deduction was first approved by Congress in late 2006 and applied to loans with mortgage insurance that closed in 2007. In an important move to further assist borrowers, Congress voted in December of last year to extend the mortgage insurance tax deduction through 2010. Extension of the tax deduction for mortgage insurance premiums was part of the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007. The deduction allows households with an adjusted gross income of $100,000 or less to deduct the full cost of their government or private mortgage insurance premiums on their federal tax returns. Families with incomes between $100,000 and $109,000 are eligible for a reduced deduction.
Fire leaves Manatee family without home
The devastation was not yet real for three children who lost most everything they own Tuesday morning. But their father is very aware of the uphill battle he and his wife face after a fire destroyed their home, in the 500 block of 59th Avenue Terrace West. "I don't think it has set in for the children that they don't have a home to go to anymore," said Don Davis outside his charred home. "We just have to go through and see what we can salvage." Cedar Hammock Battalion Chief Sam Collier said the fire started just after 3 a.m. in the back of the Davis' home and quickly spread through the attic Davis said he awoke to his dogs barking. He went into his living room and saw nothing but bright orange flames and smoke. "I yelled for everyone to get up and get out," he said.
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