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The Ethics of Asset Protection

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PIMD welcomes the White Coat Investor. WCI is a physician-specific personal finance and investing website. The White Coat Investor can help you to become financially literate and disciplined, which will allow you to spend your time and effort on your patients, your family, and your own wellness. WCI truly believes that a financially secure doctor is a better partner, parent, and practitioner. White Coat Investor is an affiliate partner of PIMD.

When I first started blogging at The White Coat Investor, I thought I’d be writing frequently about asset protection. It was one of the five or six main topics on the blog. Then I discovered the truth about asset protection what most doctors don’t know: it’s incredibly rare to lose personal assets in a malpractice lawsuit. Being a risk-taker by nature, I quit worrying all that much about it, especially when I realized the majority of my net worth at the time was in retirement accounts that had excellent asset protection from my potential creditors.

I’ve still written about asset protection from time to time on the blog, and I talk about it all the time because the docs are so interested in it. It’s in the WCI Online

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NYC Realtor Linda Stein Killed By Assistant Natavia Lowery

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New York’s finest were forced to shift through a long line of suspects when a well-known and wealthy woman was murdered in her Upper East Side home.

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Linda Stein, 62, was found dead by her daughter on October 30, 2007, face down in the living room floor of her luxurious Fifth Avenue apartment. According to NYPD detectives Kevin Walla and Pete Panuccio, the location of the woman’s death — one of the country’s most affluent and sought-after areas — immediately made it a headline-grabbing case.

Media outlets were already on the scene when investigators arrived at the 18-story building. And upstairs, there appeared to be no signs of a break-in.

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“The apartment was nice; well-maintained,” NYPD Det. Angelique Loffredo told New York Homeicide. “[There] wasn’t really any kind of upset in the apartment, no mess. Nothing was in the sarray or anything like that.”

Detectives observed that Stein had her hoodie over the back of her head, was surrounded by a pool of blood, and there appeared

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The Most Affordable Beach Towns for Homebuyers in 2023, According to Realtor.com

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The results range from spots in Connecticut to California.

<p>Getty Images/Barry Winiker</p>

Getty Images/Barry Winiker

It’s time to start daydreaming about a coastal lifestyle, because Realtor.com just released a list of the most affordable beach towns of 2023. Beach homes are often associated with wealth and luxury—and understandably so, as beach towns and cities account for some of the most expensive real estate in the country. However, there are some beach towns where the cost of buying a home is on par or even lower than the national average. For reference, as of 2022, the average home price in the US was $348,079 (which is up 29 percent since 2020)—and the median home price for the majority of the towns on Realtor.com’s list is lower than that.

In order to compile the list, the data team at Realtor.com, including data journalist Evan Wyloge, started with a federal listing of beaches and their locations. The team then aggregated Realtor.com listing data for every home put on the market in the past year located within a 1-mile radius of each beach and selected the most affordable beach towns by price per square foot. (The most affordable on the list comes in at $144 per square

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Garland realtor helps save dozens of drivers stuck in the ice

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Garland realtor helps save dozens of drivers stuck in the ice

Realtor Patrick Abell from Garland drove around Dallas County in his Jeep on Tuesday with the aim of giving folks a helpful pull.

Garland – Realtor Patrick Abell from Garland drove around Dallas County in his Jeep on Tuesday with the aim of giving folks a helpful pull after getting stranded by the ice.

Hounan Reyes stopped to help the driver of an 18-wheeler get free from the ice. It worked, but his truck got stuck in the process.

North Texas drivers dealing with treacherous conditions

Kevin Deras, the driver of the 18-wheeler, looked to return the favor.

“We’re going to have to scrape a little bit of ice from under those tires so he can gain some traction,” Deras said.

He dug at the ice, but the street was too slick to get Reyes out.

That’s where Abell and his Jeep came in.

“Just out having fun. I’ve been picking people up taking them to work checking on houses, doing what we do,” he said.

Winter Storm Warning for North Texas extended until Thursday, Ice Storm Warning for some starts Wednesday

Abell and his Jeep were able to

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Tri-Cities realtors help raise nearly $20K for housing charities

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Local agents also brought in almost $20,000 for housing-related charities, surpassing the financial fundraising bar for 2022.

Realtors across the Tri-Cities have eclipsed another big number in its annual campaign to clothe those in need over the winter seasons.

The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) and its member agencies have now donated winter clothing to more than 480,000 people in the last 28 years through its annual Realtors Care Blanket Drive.

For 2022, the week-long November event brought in enough supplies to help more than 27,300 residents in the region, primarily women and children fleeing abusive situations.

The Tri-City Transitions Society (200-2540 Shaughnessy St.) was one of the recipients thanks to 16 local realtor offices in Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody.

Metro Vancouver residents also opened up their wallets to donate nearly $20,000 for the cause — said to be the “largest and longest running” winter clothing drive in all of BC — surpassing the campaign’s initial fundraising goal of $15,000.

The money is earmarked for local housing-related non-profit organizations, said REBGV spokesperson Daniel John.

“Our partner charities were in dire need of blankets and warm clothing this year,” he said in a release. The initiative took

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NAR Forecasts 4.78 Million Existing-Home Sales, Stable Prices in 2023

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WASHINGTON (December 13, 2022) – Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist and senior vice president of research, forecasts that 4.78 million existing homes will be sold, prices will remain stable, and Atlanta will be the top real estate market to watch in 2023 and beyond. Yun unveiled the association’s forecast today during NAR’s fourth annual year-end Real Estate Forecast Summit.

Yun predicts home sales will decline by 6.8% compared to 2022 (5.13 million) and the median home price will reach $385,800 – an increase of just 0.3% from this year ($384,500).

“Half of the country may experience small price gains, while the other half may see slight price declines,” Yun said. “However, markets in California may be the exception, with San Francisco, for example, likely to register price drops of 10–15%.”

Yun expects rent prices to rise 5% in 2023, following a 7% increase in 2022. He predicts foreclosure rates will remain at historically low levels in 2023, consisting of less than 1% of all mortgages.

Yun forecasts US GDP will grow by 1.3%, roughly half the typical historical pace of 2.5%. After eclipsing 7% in late 2022, he expects the 30-year fixed mortgage rate to settle at 5.7% as the

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