New England B.S. Thread

I have nothing informative to add today except: Get a CPA to do your taxes. I had always used turbo tax but we got a CPA this year cause we sold some stocks and did some misc real estate things. CPA is so much easier, and i think the same price or slightly cheaper than turbotax. He just finished doing the taxes and it was 1000x easier. That is all, carry on...

 

we did our own when it was easy, now we have a house and my wife is a fitness instructor on 1099s everywhere, so we said F it. Tax prep is deductible itself for her. So. We did that. Our accountant is great - I send the .csv from all the trades I've done, and they just do it all for us. It's about 600$/year. Yes you can do stuff free, too, pretty simply, but almost everyone gets the software and you're looking at a few hundred a year anyway.

 

Ours was like $350. I've been using turbotax forever, even when we bought our house in 2011. We have normal W-2s but still. Having not sold stocks before made it worth in in and of itself. I was getting turbotax telling me we'd owe multiple 10's of 1000's dollars in taxes. Instead we're getting a few grand back. Literally we just uploaded all or docs (most difficult part), then they just work their magic and bam taxes done.

 

@DoubleRGirl
28k+ So 5k+ more than they offered at the start of this.

See if any dealers reach out. We are gonna ride it out until we get closer to having to actually ditch it, so we have a couple weeks.

 

Is that the instant offer from KBB on the T4R?

 

yes, with being honest about two small damage points. (tiny paint ding and a scuff on a trim piece.)

edit: to remind any curious, it is a 2016 trd w/about 70-71k miles.

 

looks like the closest buying centers to you are in albany. if i had to guess fuccillo ford is going to get your appraisal, and maybe denooyer chevrolet

 

ding ding ding.

Fuccillo reached out already and denooyer was listed as #2

 

Whatcha buying instead?

 

a telluride, needed something that had more space in the rear for the big ass car seats they have these days. We are working hard to not smash our kids head everytime she's in and out of the car right now.

 

Edit: I'm sure they're a nice SUV to drive, but I really dislike the styling. Like a late-2000's Yukon hate f*cked an Optima

 

See, I think its one of the better looking for that segment lol. The insides are nice though and the wife likes it so you know how that goes...

Between the jut out in my house and this car pick, I think its safe to say you and my wife have different tastes

 

Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about the superfluous angles...

 

my husband likes them too. so then i'm like "are you gonna trade your truck in for one?" "hell no"

 

Do you have the middle row seats slid back all the way? In my wifes 2011 they slide forward and back some. Not a ton, but enough that she's got a decent amount more leg room in the middle row than my landcruiser does.

 

That's how we are with minivans. It took me two years for her to consider it a kia so Ill consider it a win. Getting their moss green color with their "night edition package" which gets rid of all the chrome.

I'm pretty sure, I can double check. It's more of a height of the the seat is the problem than the space between rows though. There is still plenty of room horizontally.

 

Those of you from or near Albany will know who that is...

 

Sad he retired but Jeez looking at that picture vs now...time flys I guess

 

How have there not been any that's what she said jokes....