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The exclusion after a spouse dies, the exclusion when the home was once a rental, the step-up, the senior property tax exemptions, and whether to sell or keep. Sourced, dated, and ending with the advice to bring the numbers to a professional.

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  <li><a href="https://consideratecapital.com/embed/home-sale-exclusion-surviving-spouse?via=real-estate-attorney" target="_blank" rel="noopener" onclick="window.open(this.href,'cc-tool','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,left='+((screen.width-780)/2)+',top='+((screen.height-900)/2)+',width=780,height=900');return false;">Home Sale Exclusion for a Surviving Spouse</a> <span>Shows how much profit a surviving spouse can sell the house for without tax, and how the answer changes after two years.</span></li>
  <li><a href="https://consideratecapital.com/embed/home-sale-exclusion-after-renting?via=real-estate-attorney" target="_blank" rel="noopener" onclick="window.open(this.href,'cc-tool','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,left='+((screen.width-780)/2)+',top='+((screen.height-900)/2)+',width=780,height=900');return false;">Home Sale Exclusion After Renting It Out</a> <span>Shows how much of the profit on your home is still tax-free when the home was rented out before you lived in it.</span></li>
  <li><a href="https://consideratecapital.com/embed/step-up-in-basis-calculator?via=real-estate-attorney" target="_blank" rel="noopener" onclick="window.open(this.href,'cc-tool','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,left='+((screen.width-780)/2)+',top='+((screen.height-900)/2)+',width=780,height=900');return false;">Step-Up in Basis Calculator</a> <span>Shows the new tax cost of an asset after a death, and how much profit is never taxed because of it.</span></li>
  <li><a href="https://consideratecapital.com/embed/sell-or-keep-the-house?via=real-estate-attorney" target="_blank" rel="noopener" onclick="window.open(this.href,'cc-tool','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,left='+((screen.width-780)/2)+',top='+((screen.height-900)/2)+',width=780,height=900');return false;">Sell or Keep the House?</a> <span>Compares staying in your house with selling it and renting, year by year, at the costs and returns you expect.</span></li>
  <li><a href="https://consideratecapital.com/embed/refinance-break-even?via=real-estate-attorney" target="_blank" rel="noopener" onclick="window.open(this.href,'cc-tool','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,left='+((screen.width-780)/2)+',top='+((screen.height-900)/2)+',width=780,height=900');return false;">Refinance Break-Even: When the New Loan Pays for Itself</a> <span>Shows the month a new mortgage has paid for its closing costs, counted two ways, and whether you come out ahead for as long as you plan to keep the home.</span></li>
  <li><a href="https://consideratecapital.com/embed/15-or-30-year-mortgage?via=real-estate-attorney" target="_blank" rel="noopener" onclick="window.open(this.href,'cc-tool','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,left='+((screen.width-780)/2)+',top='+((screen.height-900)/2)+',width=780,height=900');return false;">15-Year or 30-Year Mortgage?</a> <span>Runs a 15-year and a 30-year mortgage side by side, with the same cash spent on both and the difference invested, and shows where each stands at year 15 and year 30.</span></li>
  <li><a href="https://consideratecapital.com/embed/mortgage-points-calculator?via=real-estate-attorney" target="_blank" rel="noopener" onclick="window.open(this.href,'cc-tool','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,left='+((screen.width-780)/2)+',top='+((screen.height-900)/2)+',width=780,height=900');return false;">Should You Buy Points? The Break-Even on a Rate Buydown</a> <span>Shows the month a rate buydown has paid for itself, what it earns if you keep the loan as long as you expect, and whether a seller credit toward points beats the same dollars off the price.</span></li>
  <li><a href="https://consideratecapital.com/embed/illinois-senior-property-tax-exemptions?via=real-estate-attorney" target="_blank" rel="noopener" onclick="window.open(this.href,'cc-tool','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,left='+((screen.width-780)/2)+',top='+((screen.height-900)/2)+',width=780,height=900');return false;">Illinois Senior Property Tax Exemptions</a> <span>Shows which Illinois property tax exemptions you qualify for and what each saves at your local tax rate.</span></li>
  <li><a href="https://consideratecapital.com/embed/house-or-ira-in-divorce?via=real-estate-attorney" target="_blank" rel="noopener" onclick="window.open(this.href,'cc-tool','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,left='+((screen.width-780)/2)+',top='+((screen.height-900)/2)+',width=780,height=900');return false;">The House or the IRA? After-Tax Value in a Divorce</a> <span>Compares what the house and the retirement account are each worth after tax, when a divorce trades one against the other.</span></li>
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<p class="cc-quiet-tools-note">Calculators from <a href="https://consideratecapital.com/tools?via=real-estate-attorney">Considerate Capital</a>. Educational estimates from the public rules, not advice; each opens in its own window with the sources and terms.</p>

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It ends with you
Every tool closes by telling the reader to talk with a professional who knows their whole situation. The reader is on your site, so the next step is your door.
Something to do, not just read
A visitor who runs their own numbers stays longer than one who reads, and the number they get is the question they bring to you. Every figure traces to a statute, regulation, or agency release, and when the law moves, it changes here.
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Every tool opens with a plain-English line on what it does and where it stops, so visitors use it without help and know its limits.

Built by Joshua Mangoubi, CFA, MBA. Joshua is a financial adviser who likes building things that help people think clearly about money. We hope these are useful to you and your clients. The tools are educational estimates from primary sources, not advice. Corrections are welcome through the contact page.

Terms. Cite any page, quote any figure with the year attached, or use the links above with the attribution left as it is. No reciprocal link, ever. All 19 professional shelves.