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    Can I throw these docs away?

    Getting ready to do taxes and came across some old files. Wondering if it is OK to pitch sale docs from our house in Austin. Over five years old and sold twice since. It's just a memory now. Whad'ya think?

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    I agree with Bae. My new rule, since the business, though, is if a question, scan into the computer for digital copy.

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    It's scary destroying those records.

    Glad to hear you say, bae, that we don't need to keep the old house sale records. Because I have mine going back 20 years. . . It used to be you were to keep them to support money you put into the house. But maybe that rule changed. . .

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    I got a kick out of seeing the interest rate on some of the old loans - 8% and up. If I scanned everything I had fear of needing again from ten years ago, I would go nuts. All I saved from the Austin house was the original sales info sheet from 1999 - price $130K just for fun. It is now hovering around a million.

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