When Chicago banned single use bags, the side effect was very durable disposable bags. They were a vew mils thick and great for heavy stuff, but overkill for dog poop and kitchen trash.
Tinder is still there for the "discovery" of the people to add on Instagram, that is not going to change. Tinder doesn't make any extra money after people match, whether they continue to chat in or out of the app. Once connections are made and the users move out of the app, they still come back to Tinder for more discovery.
Have you noticed any change in audio quality between the two, GPM and Spotify? I've tried to poke at all the settings, and googled to learn more, but the Spotify recordings sound different. I'm trying to decide which i like better.
I haven't noticed a difference, but Spotify has like 5 different levels of quality for streaming in the settings. Were you using the equalizer in Play Music?
But it's not just a cute game we play to get out of taxes
It's an accounting strategy that we are using for all fixed assets. All things have a useful life, and we just need a way to account for that. Not all improvements to a property will be durable. (Only land has durable value, which is why we only depreciate the portion of the purchase price that was for the improvements to the land)
The new roof we put on a property has a limited useful life. The kitchen remodel has a limited useful life.
If a property is not well maintained, then it may not be worth much in the distant future. If it is well maintained it may be worth more later.
If there is residual value, then we pay the tax when we recapture that value at a sale. If there is no value left at the end, then we don't.
Also, not all houses exist in San Francisco, where a dilapidated tool shed can be worth $1MM and be expected to double every year. Many markets are not very hot in terms of price appreciation. In my midwest market, I'm not even sure there has been any notable appreciation in the last decade. (And if there was, please don't let the county assessor know.)
> more tax write downs than most other investments.
Just to be clear for other readers. The only special tax write downs for real estate is depreciation, which isn't a write-down, it's a deferral. (OK, yes you can escape the deferred tax by dying)
Having a mortgage is irrelevant to the tax situation. Mortgage interest is not treated any different than interest on any other business or investment financing. Even the margin interest in our brokerage accounts is deductible.
