Any tax consultants lurking out there?

So we met with our landlords yesterday re: advancing the end of our lease and getting started on the sale/purchase of the building. It didn't go well. Since they sold a property in AZ in the 2005-2006 (July to July) tax year, their tax consultant has told them to hold off selling our building. He told them they'd likely pay close to $70 000 in tax and it wouldn't be worth their while to sell until next year. ARRGH! It's so frustrating!

We've asked them to seek out a second opinion, and as they genuinely seem to want to sell to us, they are going to find out from another source if that's the best route to take. What I'm wondering is, should we find out as well from a tax consultant, if this is the real scoop? We don't have all of their background & tax details, but there has to be some creative solution to buying the building without the title changing hands until next year. Some kind of deferred thing? Like we are making mortgage payments to them, but the building wouldn't 'officially' be ours until 2007, or something?

They said we didn't have to feel pressured to stay after our lease is up, if we wanted to look elsewhere, they wouldn't hold us to anything...we dont' want to go anywhere!!! They did assure us that they wouldn't sell to anyone else as long as we were interested, even though they told us a realtor we may have trusted had offered to buy it from them. Scumbag! We have 5 realtors next door and I'm pretty sure I know which one it was.

Anyway, any guidance here would be much appreciated. Any creative financial solutions out there? Where could we go to find some other purchasing options? There has to be a way around this.

Brush With Fame

Yesterday as I walked up O'Connor Street towards Parliament Hill to catch my bus home Joe Clark walked by. I was looking at him to make sure it was indeed him and he looked at me, smiled and said "Hi".

MOM!

Stop deleting your posts!!!

awwww!

Aren't they lovely?
I don't know how to rotate the picture, which is unfortunate!!

This is Mom and Dad before the big work party. Daddy isn't looking at the camera because he says he gets red eye, but he gets it anyway. How silly of him!

Photo modifications courtesy of the Blog elves.

Mom brought her fish home, and last night, Marcie got very interested!














Jazz hands!!











All the grandkids.













Hi, Mook!