afidel wrote:
pnichols wrote:
If the old geezer owns a house, they should always buy an RV by opening a small mortgage on their house to pay just for the RV. Mortgage money has the lowest interest rates and of course can be borrowed against a 30 year payback.
An old geezer can't get any lower monthly RV payments than that.
Actually if they're smart they've transferred the home to a trusted child so that it's not considered an asset, either of the estate or for Medicare nursing home purposes. Transferring a home before the Medicare lookback process is one of the best ways to transfer wealth to your kids.
but they would run into that $10,000 rule, or it was 10K in my experience for "gifting". also, are the state/feds going to ignore that increase in value from $7,000 when purchased to $500,000 now?
bumpy