Friday, March 20, 2009

Another IRS audit

I'm beginning to think that there is an IRS conspiracy against rental property owners. I've received another notification for an IRS audit of my rental properly documents. This will be the 4th time I have been audited.

I'm not really worried about this. Three previous audits ended in no change and one gave me additional refund. But it is a pain to have to spend 3 hours with an auditor.

I wonder if the IRS tax cheat in chief (Geithner) will be audited as much as I have been?

Friday, March 6, 2009

Time to panic? Yes!

I've been watching my 401k for the past year trying to maintain my composure and not sell. All of the guru's tell you that the typical investor sells at the bottom and misses the rapid upturn. So I held and held and held my stocks waiting for the Messiah to turn the panic in the stock market around.

But now the Messiah thinks that the stock market is no more than a popularity poll and doesn't seem to care about it. The stock market losses since his election are the worst of any President in 90 years and there is no sign that he or his treasury sec. know what they are doing (except trying to nationalize health care, the utility industry through carbon taxes and the banks).

With no hope in sight, I finally decided to panic and sell all my stocks. I see no chance of the economy recovering for several years at this point. Looks like we are headed to European style government, growth and unemployment rates.