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uestion: I came across your website as I was trying to look for answers as to my home situation. I lived in Philadelphia for most of my life. I bought a house there in March 2009. When I bought the house, I got the $8,000 first-time home buyer tax credit. I’m wondering if I have to pay back some or all or the tax credit. On the IRS website, it says you have to pay it back under “certain circumstances.”

I moved out of my home in June 2010. Since then, it’s been rented and I now live in an apartment in Florida. Will I have to pay back the $8,000 tax credit?

Answer: When you bought your home in 2009, you were fortunate to have qualified for the tax credit.

When you filed your 2009 federal income taxes, you received a dollar-fordollar benefit equal to $8,000 — meaning that if you owed the IRS $10,000 in federal income taxes, you only had to pay $2,000.

But to keep that tax credit you had to continue to live in the home for at least three years. If you fail to keep the home and use it as your primary residence, you’ll have to pay the tax credit back to the IRS. There are some exceptions, but they are limited.

If you sell your home, you are required to repay the tax credit based on the amount of profit you make on the sale of the home. If you have

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oday’s homebuyers are choosey. They are looking for that special something that sets one home apart from another — something that catches their eye and causes them to linger. When they find it, they can’t imagine themselves living anywhere else.

One area sure to capture a home buyer’s heart is in the

master bed and bath. Here is where they demand sophistication and luxury. Why not give it to them? By staging it to sell, even the most hohum master bed and bath can be transformed into a restful, sophisticated haven.

START WITH PAINT COLOR When selling, avoid dark colors that will make room look small and closed in. Instead, entice buyers using soft neutrals. Gray, taupe, khaki, tan or beige are best.

Lighter warm toned colors are also acceptable like soft butter cream yellow or elegant gold tones. Even cool

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colors can be used such as a very light blue/green or sage green to communicate that soothing, fresh, spa retreat style. Tip: Use the same color in the bed and bath or different tones of the same color for a cohesive look.

MASTER BEDROOM STYLE BASICS • Clear the clutter and store away personal photos.

• Start with a neutral toned, updated bedspread, using lots of matching decorative pillows for that luxurious upscale hotel look.

Choose bedding that is not too feminine, so as to appeal equally to both men and women.

• Choose modern matching lamps on nightstands to bring in consistency, symmetry and style.

• Pick a color from the bedspread and hang match-

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ing to-the-floor drapes. This adds drama, sophistication and visually pulls the room together.

• Add a candle or two to the nightstand or dresser; add a vase with fresh flowers.

• If there is space, feature a trim, pretty club chair and reading lamp in a corner to show further purpose for the room and to communicate that restful, relaxing retreat feeling.

MASTER BATH BEAUTY • Make sure every nook, cranny and surface is clean and that personal items are hidden.

• Put up a new fabric shower curtain. It can be a modern elegant style or clean and crisp spa-like style in a white waffle texture, for example. Push the curtain back all the way to make the bathroom appear larger.

• If there is a corner sunken tub, place a plant and/or candles in the corner or beside it. Even a standard tub can benefit from a little color and mood with a small candle in the corner.

• Clean towels are a must. Decorative ones can be put out for showings only.

Again, go with an elegant style or fluffy, white spa-like style.

See how with just a few simple touches, any master bedroom and bath can become a sweet, sophisticated, sell-able, spa-like retreat.

Jill is a Home Staging Expert (HSE) certified stager and redesign specialist serving the Northern Colorado area. For questions or more information, e-mail Jill Schuett of Applause Home Staging, LLC jill.applause@comcast.net, or go to www.applause homestaging.com

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IRS. Please consult with your tax advisor for more details.

From Page E1 Question: My renters want to buy my house in Atlanta. I moved from Atlanta to New Jersey last year, and I simply feel that I no profit, you won’t have to repay the tax credit. But the sale must be to a person un- cannot sell at this point since I don’t know what will become of me at the end of this related to you. academic year.

Also, if your home is condemned, if you The buyers are a bit pushy (well, the wife go through a divorce and have to get rid of is), but I am wondering if she is hearing the the home, or if you die, you wouldn’t have to repay the first-time home buyer tax cred- 3.25 percent interest rate stuff from her it (but your spouse may have to repay your mortgage broker. They continually send me share if the spouse ceases to use the home e-mails about what is wrong with my house, as if I will start to negotiate the price. as his or her primary residence).

I love my little house, despite its cracks, In your case, you didn’t sell the home and etc. I simply don’t want to be pressured. you stopped using it as your primary resiAnd I don’t want them to feel that it is OK dence. In that case you will have to file to barter down the price because of the form 5405 with the IRS and you will have to add to amount of the tax credit back in- condition of the property or the status of to your return as an amount you owe the the Atlanta housing market in general.

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Should I sell my house to them? Or should I perhaps hang on to it, rent it to someone else, knowing that I don’t want to be pressured to sell low, and perhaps move back to Atlanta. Your thoughts?

Answer: No one can force you to sell your home. If you don’t want to sell, don’t. Simply say no. Don’t cave in to them or their demands. If they don’t want to rent it, they can move on at the end of the year. If you don’t want to rent it to them, you may not have an obligation to renew your lease with them when it comes up.

But I think if they (or someone else) make what you consider to be a reasonable offer for your property, you should take it.

Should you later decide to move back to Atlanta, you can buy another home for the same money

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When invited I volunteer with the homeless shelter as a nightly chaperone or providing dinner.

— or perhaps even less.

You can also suggest a sales price for the home that would be acceptable to you but perhaps too high for them to consider. If they find out that your price is too high, they may decide to move on.

Just remember: What you do with your real estate is up to you. And selling doesn’t mean you can’t come back home.

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You should also fill nail holes and dents, using a vinyl spackling compound, and sand the patches. Use 150-grit sandpaper for all sanding. You can buy all the supplies you need at a home center or hardware store.

It will be easier to paint the cabinets if you first remove the doors and hardware (hinges and latches). Number each door by sticking a small piece of masking tape to the back side, and lay the doors on a flat surface to be primed and painted.

Applying a coat of the correct primer is very important; it will keep the dark stain from bleeding through the finish paint and also make it possible to give the wood a light tone with a minimum of coats of paint. You want to use stain-killer primer such as Bulls-Eye 1-2-3 or Kilz. If you have the primer tinted to something close to the finish color, you can probably get by with one coat of finish paint.

For the finish, choose an enamel, not a paint meant for walls or siding. A high-quality paint brush will also help improve the results. Before applying primer or paint, remove dust from the surface with a vacuum or dusting cloth. Prime all the surfaces first and let the primer dry

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The next great container plant: Peanuts est number of mature peanuts won.

The winning participants growing White Valencia Mature orthern Colorado is not peanuts include Deb and Molly suited for planting Bissantz of Loveland for first peanuts. The growing place, with 46 mature peanuts, season is too short, the soil too and Tony Koski of Wellington alkaline and too hard. On a for second place with 41 madrive back to Fort Collins from ture peanuts.

Texas, the peanut farms there Bernadette Kizzel of Fort inspired Ken Goldsberry of Collins placed first with the Donath Lake Greenhouses in most mature peanuts of the Fort Collins to experiment with Olin Red Spanish variety, 33 togrowing peanuts here using tal, while Steve Mill of Fort containers.

Collins placed second with 15.

Goldsberry suspected During the contest, Donath peanuts could grow in contain- Lake Greenhouses experimenters with the peatlite mixture ed with it’s own peanut plants very common in bedding and created a modified nutriplants. Everything grows in ent mix catered to peanuts that material, Goldsberry said. based on growing techniques in Peatlite is a soil-less growing Texas and used that on one of medium containing organic two peanut plants set out in material like composted bark, front of Texas Roadhouse, one peanut hulls and ingredients of the sponsors of the contest, that promote aeration, Goldsberry said. That plant drainage and water retention produced the highest number like perlite and vermiculite. of mature peanuts of all the Containers can be used to set Donath Lake trial plants and up a better environment for contest participants with 80 flowers or vegetables that mature peanuts. might not do so well otherwise Peanut plants look similar to in Colorado soil, Goldsberry alfalfa plants, Goldsberry said, said, and can be watered autobut larger. They are self-pollimatically through an irrigation nating and produce small flowdrip system. ers on the bottom half of the Container vegetables and plant. As the flowers begin to flowers do best with consistent, die, the ovary or peg takes it’s slow-release fertilizer applied place and grows toward the once a month, Goldsberry said. ground, burrows in and proSeed companies are now duces a peanut. Peanuts need breeding compact plants made loose soil to be able to burrow for container gardening, Golds- their pegs, one reason Northberry said. ern Colorado soil is insufficient.

To augment the peanut exDonath Lake Greenhouses periment, he invited the public got into container gardening to participate in a peanut con- demonstrations and experitainer growing contest featurmenting in 2009 after holding ing two peanut varieties, Olin, a it’s first set of Container Garred Spanish nut and White Vadening Workshops led by Steve lencia, a larger variety. It was Mill, a former student of Goldsup to contestants to find infor- berry’s and vegetable tester for mation on growing peanut Donath Lake Greenhouses. Mill plants. At the end of the conhad been doing container gartest, the plants with the highdening with vegetables and

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Photos courtesy Ken Goldsberry

Tony Koski of Wellington had 41 mature peanuts and nine immature peanuts on his plant winning 2nd place for the White Valencia variety of peanuts.

A potted peanut plant at Donath Farms. The plants look similar to alfalfa, Goldsberry said. flowers in his backyard for several years.

The workshops led to the creation of the Doonath Lake Container Vegetable Village to serve as demonstration area of container gardening open to visitors with over 90 containers with vegetables, herbs, including 16 varieties of basil, and some fruits like strawberries.

The Container Vegetable Village also successfully produced sweet potatoes, another plant ill-suited for Northern Colorado.

Donath Lake Greenhouses plans to hold the container gardening workshops again in the next couple months, Goldsberry said.

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ur hearts might be filled with fancy, but our loved ones know where our minds really are: on plants and the growing season in front of us. Sure, we won’t turn down a box of chocolates or a bouquet of flowers, but if cupid isn’t arriving armed with seeds, he might as well fling those arrows at those who heads are in the clouds, instead of on the earth.

Gardeners start jonesing for spring in February, impatient for the weather to warm. Our moments of distraction start getting longer, and like an itch under the skin, only one thing will soothe us: hour upon hour of listening to someone talk about plants.

At the eighth annual High Plains Landscape Workshop, February 26 at the Fort Collins Senior Center, you’ll be able to scratch that itch with classes on soil, vegetables, and perfect plant design. A fundraiser for the Gardens on Spring Creek, the event specializes in realworld gardening for homeowners on the Front Range.

Getting down to earth means getting your hands in the soil, and the opening speaker, Dr. Jean Reeder, Colorado State University consultant, will wow you with Soil Savvy: A Key to Successful Front Range Gardening.

“The bottom line is that soil is a living system, providing the fundamental support for all terrestrial life,” said the retired USDA Agriculture Research Service soil scientist, “we need to feed and nurture our soils so they can feed and nurture the plants, animals, and us.” Because the key to great landscapes begins with healthy soil, Reeder offers tips on how to get that garden gold.

Not all you see is dirt, says the soil savant; healthy soils are 50-percent solids, 50 percent pore space for air and water, and 100 percent difficult to get in the average Colorado garden. Gardening gurus sing the praises of different organic matter, but

essentially they all accomplish the same thing: nourish the organisms living in soil.

“If you don’t have active critters doing what they’re made to do, you have dead soil,” Reeder said, “they improve soil tilth (the ability of soils to support growth).

Organisms exude sticky stuff — kind of a micropoop — that glues soil particles together. This increases the size of pore space, so roots can breathe and spread out.”

But not all amendments are created equal; some are dangerous over the long term. Reeder takes participants through a primer on which amendment is best.

Once you’ve gotten into the dirt, explore edible possibilities for our area, then adjourn for a delicious lunch and socializing with other gardeners.

The keynote for the event is author Scott Calhoun of ZonaGardens in Tucson, Arizona. A columnist in Sunset and contributing editor for Horticulture magazines, Calhoun will take you on a tour de force of designer plant combinations in his seminar Perfect Plant Combinations. Perennial pairings, waves of grasses, accent plants, and ideal partners for woody plants are explored, along with photographs to make you long for spring.

But Calhoun won’t leave you hanging after he shows you stunning combinations.

An accomplished designer, he’ll give you practical tips on building beauty in your own landscape in Strategies for Designing Water Thrifty Gardens. Tough plants and irrigation savvy for your difficult areas will be at the forefront of his seminar.

The popular event includes lunch and a chance to talk with other gardeners who revel in early season planning for beautiful landscapes. Registration is $35, including lunch; $40 after February 16. Workshop information and registration materials are available at fcgov.com/highplains or by calling the Gardens on Spring Creek at 970-416-2486.

IF YOU GO: What: Eighth annual High Plains Landscape Workshop When: Saturday, February 26, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

Where: Fort Collins Senior Center, 1200 Raintree Dr., Fort Collins.

Benefits: The Gardens on Spring Creek, Fort Collins.

Carol O’Meara is with CSU Extension in Boulder County.

Contact her at 303-678-6238 or comeara@co .boulder.co.us.

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