ILLMAS Posted May 14, 2012 Report Share Posted May 14, 2012 Just wondering if any of your R/E prof. clients have been selected for an examination? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jainen Posted May 14, 2012 Report Share Posted May 14, 2012 >>Just wondering<< Tell your client to get busy reconstructing his time sheet. Kiplinger includes this in the Dirty Dozen audit red flags this year. http://www.kiplinger.com/features/archives/12-audit-red-flags-the-irs-looks-for.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barosser Posted May 14, 2012 Report Share Posted May 14, 2012 Have had several Real Estate audits refered to me over the last 2 years. They are hammering this especially if the TP has another W-2 job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joanmcq Posted May 14, 2012 Report Share Posted May 14, 2012 And since most returns that claim RE pro aren't, it's easy pickin's for the IRS. And big bucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max W Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 There here? How about they're (contraction for They are). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILLMAS Posted May 15, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 There here? How about they're (contraction for They are). Thank you grammar police, can't imagine this world without you :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kcjenkins Posted May 16, 2012 Report Share Posted May 16, 2012 I fixed that for you, so Max will feel better when he sees it next. I too tend to be a bit of a 'grammar police' person myself. The result of a wonderful, but extremely strict, teacher in high school, I expect. Mrs Rogers was a tiny little woman, who could with one look make the biggest football jock swallow his gum without a moments hesitation. And she drilled us on proper use of the English language in ways that made all her students use better grammar all the time. She was a good artist, so used pictures to help us understand. I can still see her drawing of the phrase 'the old man was sweeping the floor with a long white beard". I still move a descriptive phrase when it is misplaced, just because of that one example. So things like that topic heading just grate on me. It's not a big deal, but if you look at an old post and suddenly notice that some typo or split infinitive has been corrected, it's probably because I read it. :P 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack from Ohio Posted May 16, 2012 Report Share Posted May 16, 2012 Past, Present & Future walked into a bar..... It was Tense Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kcjenkins Posted May 16, 2012 Report Share Posted May 16, 2012 Love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joanmcq Posted May 16, 2012 Report Share Posted May 16, 2012 I'm glad it was fixed because the I read the title and it didn't make sense to me, but I clicked just because it said 'audits'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnH Posted May 17, 2012 Report Share Posted May 17, 2012 "This is the sort of arrant criticism up with which I will not put." :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jainen Posted May 17, 2012 Report Share Posted May 17, 2012 >>it didn't make sense to me<< "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master — that's all." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnH Posted May 17, 2012 Report Share Posted May 17, 2012 The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter-- it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning. - Mark Twain, in a Letter to George Bainton, 10/15/1888 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gail in Virginia Posted May 17, 2012 Report Share Posted May 17, 2012 Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs. Jack Lynch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack from Ohio Posted May 17, 2012 Report Share Posted May 17, 2012 Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs. Jack Lynch Those are not arguments. It is simply that some people do not know the right choices!! Hands down... IBM (PC), Pepsi & briefs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILLMAS Posted May 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2012 "Is your name Dan Druff?? You get into people's hair." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kea Posted May 17, 2012 Report Share Posted May 17, 2012 The power of the comma is amazing. For example: Woman without her man is nothing. It seems where you put the comma(s) may be related to whether you are a man or a woman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnH Posted May 17, 2012 Report Share Posted May 17, 2012 I don' think I can read it only one way. I don't think, I can read it only one way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max W Posted May 17, 2012 Report Share Posted May 17, 2012 I am not prone to correcting misspelling or grammar, although I have had lots of practice doing so. We raised three kids and one had a heck of a time in high school with spelling and grammar. I finally got him straightened out. He went on to college and later a masters. In the early 60's, I proofread for various publications. Since then, there is rarely a book that I have read that does not have at least one misspelling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joanmcq Posted May 18, 2012 Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 A signature line on another message board: 'Grammar-the difference between: Let's eat, Grandma! Let's eat Grandma! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacun Posted May 18, 2012 Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 Yes, the IRS always audits those people... maybe more this year since this is a hot topic here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcb39 Posted May 18, 2012 Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 For some reason, I always seem to catch the spelling and/or grammar errors in books, and I read a lot. Also, for some reason, it always irritates me. I wonder if this is the result of too much "Spell check" as opposed to actual human proofreading. Once again, I think we lay the credit (or blame) to a good grade school education wherein Grammar and Spelling were stringently taught. However, I would never correct anyone else unless I was asked to. We all have our own and varied areas of expertise. :read: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kcjenkins Posted May 23, 2012 Report Share Posted May 23, 2012 Gosh, I had forgotten that one! Mrs Rogers drew a horrifying picture of the second sentence, with grandma on a plate, apple in her mouth, about to be carved up! I suspect I actually wanted to forget that one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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