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Originally Posted by forgop
Considering my wife and I are unemployed, our income won't factor into the equation. The primary concern for me is to "sandbag" any capital gains in order to ensure I stay well below the EIC credit and so I can extend my 99 weeks of unemployment through until I'm out of college in May 2012. I haven't filed for a single week in 2010 yet.
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Then seems no new tax concern for you. However, you will have to reinvest that money into a new home or face the tax man.
As an example, a few years ago, I sold a condo I owned as a rental property and didn't buy anything new. I ended up sending a check for $22,000 in April of the following year.