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- From: marie@paris.erg.sri.com (Marie desJardins)
- Subject: Re: are mortgage points tax-deductible?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.002616.15107@erg.sri.com>
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- Reply-To: marie@paris.erg.sri.com (Marie desJardins)
- Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
- References: <1747@rwja.umdnj.edu> <Dec.23.09.18.05.1992.3739@yoko.rutgers.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 00:26:16 GMT
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- In article <Dec.23.09.18.05.1992.3739@yoko.rutgers.edu>,
- majidi@yoko.rutgers.edu (Masoud Majidi) writes:
- |> For conventional mortgages if you have paid the points out of your pocket
- |> (I didn't know that there was another way of paying anything)
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- My understanding is that "out of pocket" is as opposed to having the
- points financed (i.e., if you increase your mortgage amount by the
- amount of the points, then you can't deduct the points -- or perhaps
- you can still deduct them, but must spread them out over the life
- of the loan).
-
- Marie desJardins
- marie@erg.sri.com
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