Moving House

Can you keep the home buyer tax credit after selling your home and moving to a new home before the 3rd year?
Meaning: buying your first home this year and qualifying for the tax credit. Then, 1 or 2 years later, sell the home, and move to another home. Or are you stuck in the same home for 3 years to avoid repaying the credit?

No. You must use the home as your primary residence for the full 3 years or else pay back the tax credit.

We are going to be moving within the next 6 weeks and have 2 cats that are indoor cats. Our new house has a garden and we want them to go out how do i introduce this with them? If they want to go out? How long should we be in the new place before trying. Also we would want to protect them against getting flees what is the best thing to use for this? Do the cats have to have injections when they go out? I want to do this properly because we have a young baby and dont want the cats bringing home flees etc. Thank guys

When you move to your new home, I would give it about a week or so before letting them out–cats have a strong homing instinct, so if you let them out too soon, they may try to find their way back to their old house. When you do decide to let them out, I would monitor their first few visits, to make sure they know their surroundings and that they know that this is "home." if they appear hesitant to go outdoors, try tempting them with some food or a favorite toy–this is usually enough to encourage a cat to come out.

As far as injections, it is a good idea for the cats to be up-to-date on their shots before they even step foot outside–with a young child, this makes that even more important that they be up-to-date. As far as flea prevention, you should probably buy a flea collar, and/or use a topical solution designed to prevent/kill ticks and fleas, such as Frontline Plus. To beef up the protection, it might not be a bad idea to use both a flea collar and a topical solution, that way the protection against fleas and ticks is maximized. You will probably have to reapply the topical solution every month or so, and the collar will need to be replaced every 3 to 7 months (depending on what one you buy.) But if you stick to a good prevention routine, fleas and ticks shouldn’t be a problem. Good luck!!

A removalist is loading five boxes onto a truck. Each has a mass of 10kg and a height of 30cm. The tray of the truck is 1.5m above the ground and the removalist is placing each box on top of the previous one.

What is the total work done by the removalist in lifting all the boxes onto the truck as described?

The answer i get is 441 J, but the textbook says 1029 J. Any help with this one is appreciated
Thank you very much, both of you (but particularly Fred)

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Work = m*g*h (let’s use 10 for g…your book may use 9.8 m/s^2…we’ll soon see).

Here is a nice fast solution:

Each time we add a box, we need to lift it up 1.5 meters then 30 cm more for EACH new box. We can express this mathematically as…

WBox n (the work needed to lift up the n’th box)=

10*10*(1.5 +.3(n-1))= 150 + 30(n-1) = 120 + 30n

We want the sum of the first five of these…

5*120 + (30+60+90+120+150) = 1050 Joules

Yep, your book uses 9.8. OK? You get 5*117.6 + 29.4 + 58.8 + 88.2 +117.6 + 147 = 1029 J
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EXTRA CREDIT:
Now let’s be fancy (and also use 9.8)….The fancy part is invoking the equation for an aritmetic sequence so that IF they asked for 50 boxes instead of 5 we could get the answer WITHOUT having to do everyone seperately…which is a drag…’cause there are better things to do in life!

10*9.8*(1.5 +.3(n-1))= 117.6 + 29.4 n

Summing up a bunch of these is the same as multiplying 117.4 by whatever number of boxes you are loading and then adding on the sum of an aritmetic sequence.

To sum the first n terms of an aritmetic sequence (where d=29.4=the difference of adjacent terms), use the formula

Sn = 1/2 n (a1+an) where a1 = 1st term and an is the nth term…we want to sum 5 terms, so a1=29.4 and a5 = 147 = 5th term, thus S5 = 441

441 + 5 * 117.6 will be our answer which is 1029 Joules

which is what your book lists as the correct answer.

-Fred

EDIT: Do not include a whole bunch of decimal places like my friend below me. It is incorrect. (See "significant figures" in your textbook). In reality the answer (to two sig. figs. is 1030J) if you want to be a stickler.

single parent with 4 children have lived abroad for several years now wonder what attiiudes are like to divorced people and about work. Want to make a fresh statrt but its a big decision and wonder if i will like the lifestyle as I think Ireland may have changed a lot in last 10 years am I right?

Although the Celtic Tiger has stopped, it is easy enough to find work. The government are very intent on keeping down unemployment and have set up such groups as FAS to help you get started.

Any job where you have direct contact with your boss should be easy enough to work out a part time settlement. Not so sure about big beaurocracies but I’m certain there must be something there for people who want to work part time.

I am going to move very soon. Facing so many alternatives, I don’t know which house mover I should choose. Could you tell me what I should notice in selection. thank you.

Simply ask for references. Also a good method to check them out is to ask them for the address of one of their current jobs and observe them at work. If you like what you see, then go forward. Finally if you want the simplest method, ask a local real estate agent at one of the smaller firms in your neighborhood. They always know the scoop on who’s good and who to avoid. Hope that helps!

My husband and I are planning on moving to Australia and were wondering if anyone knew any good moving companies to send our belongings from the U.S. to Melbourne, Australia. We’re not planning on bringing furniture…mostly clothes, books, dvds and other bits and pieces.

Brambles Manford, Grace Brothers or Wridgeways.

how would i get all my stuff up there? like furniture.
what kind of truck removalist would i need? i want to move in 1-2 days, not a whole week.

thanks in advance.

It obviously depends on where you’re moving from, and the circumstances.
When we moved from Brisbane to Cairns (Kuranda really), as soon as we had a contract on our Brisbane house, we had our entire house contents except for what we wanted to take with us in car & trailer, put into a storage container. The container, sealed up, sat on the removalists property for a few months while we rented up here and looked around at property. When we found a house up here, the container then came up on either on a train or road (never did find out which) then local crowd delivered the container to our new house, still sealed up.
This saved on double handling and packing. Also eliminates the previous answerer’s comments about ‘multiple loads’.
The crowd we used was Moretons, but there would be many similar.

front garden, roof terrace, patio, balcony, communal garden…
lots of space? low maintenance?

Front entrance or the patio is what I looked for.

i am getting ready to move house soon and im not sure how to get my dog ready. he has never spent a night away from me and my partner but we have to leave him at dog boarding for a couple of nights, and im worried he could come back mentally scarred what is the best way to get him ready, besides leaving him at the kennels for a few nights before we move? and when we drop him off there, what should we do/leave for him e.g. toys etc. before we go? thanks!

I hope you checked out this kennel before hand. If not, then you should. That will set your mind at ease a little. And if it is just for a few nights, he will be fine. I would not bring any of his toys as another dog may take them from him and that may not be good. I would leave a blanket from your house with your scent on it.

Good luck with your move.

I am 18 years old and currently living in Indiana with my mom and her boyfriend. My boyfriend lived in Wisconsin and so I was planning on moving to Milwaukee with him and eventually going to school there. We’ll both be moving into the city without jobs right away but should have one within a month.

I currently have bills that total to about 400 dollars a month.

As far as moving expenses, there will be none other than gas as I will be having family help me move everything.

What do you think would be an appropriate amount of money to be saved considering the circumstances?
We’ll be moving into an apartment. Probably around 700 dollars a month with partial utilities included.

You will need at least first, last months rent and maybe enough for a security deposit. That could be anywhere from 1400 to 2100 dollars. Turning on your utilities usually has a charge as well so save about a 100 for that. I would also suggest saving the 400 that you will need to your already existing bills plus another 200 for food and miscellaneous items. I am assuming that your boyfriend will split the apartment costs with you evenly so you need $1,100 each for the apartment and an additional $600 on your part for your food and outstanding bills. I would aim for about $2000 in case it takes longer to find a job or at least so you can guarantee paying your second month of rent if you had just gotten a job when rent was due. Good Luck!