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A WAG is a Wild A$$ Guess. A SWAG is a Scientific Wild A$$ Guess.

True, data is data. But I've never seen a scratch wipe out 10 years of paper data. On the other hand, the password protection for paper data is seriously deficient.

Thanks much, Gail. Education is never a waste.

John, you've got to stop using those silver discs for sanding wheels on your electric drill/screwdriver. By the way, where'd you get the adaptor for the big hole in the center (I have not been able to find one). About the deficiency of password protection, start using the PC pronouns for openers; you know: xe, xur, sie, hir - stuff like that. A sane hacker who doesn't speak Chinese-flavored Lithuanian would be expecting your birthday, anniversary, dog's name, etc.

Sounds like you are on the right track. Surviving spouse has a two part basis in the assets: 1/2 of original basis less accum depr. and 1/2 fmv on date of death. In the case of building #3, it is reported by surviving spouse on the final joint return. Surviving spouse basis will be $174,000 ($9,000 + 165,000) with accum. depreciation of $9,000 + amount allowable on $165,000 from date of death to date of sale.

We spent about 10 hours setting up our new windows 10 server this weekend. Copying data to/from external SSDs took longer than expected. We replaced our Win7 server with a Win10 server and here's what we learned. Stop the ATX server services on the old computer before copying data. Copy EVERYTHING in both: C:\ProgramData\CCH Small Firm Services C:\ProgramData\Wolters Kluwer Copy the data to the new computer BEFORE you install ATX. ATX will find the data and your settings and view it as a reinstall so it goes smoothly. We had no problems with 2016-2018, but we had to run the ATX database repair batch files (.bat) to repair 2014 & 2015. 2013 didn't work at first, then mysteriously started working. We didn't go back any further. You can find the batch files here: (There's a separate one for each year) https://support.cch.com/kb/solution.aspx/000041746 YOU MUST RUN THESE BATCH FILES BY RIGHT-CLICKING AND CHOOSING 'Run as Administrator'. We ran them not as administrator first and it did not work. Then I went back and read the web page and read the instructions again, more thoroughly. Good luck!

You go into the BIOS and check/change the boot order so it boots from a CD first. Then google how to create a boot CD. I know my IT guy can remove the passwords from computers, because he's done that to me at least once when I didn't give him the password for a computer he was working on.

Ha, ha. That's exactly what I want to tell them - check with their plan administrator. But I figure I'll take the high road and explain that this is an example of why they should not be the administrator.

There are some significant legal practice liability issues involved in the situation you are describing. Unless this was an area where I had expertise, I would decline to get involved.

Bart, this person thinks you person may have a good password idea there (just being extra careful here).

I noticed my liability insurance plan has a new form about this with the renewal paperwork.