Deducting Your Dwelling

Last year, we spent as much time talking about the love saga of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as we did the housing market.

The big difference, though, is that Brad and Angelina probably don't stay up nights worrying about how they're going to make their next mortgage payment. The rest of us do.

And to make matters worse, if you bought, sold or refinanced a home in 2005, that whole stressful situation will again rear its ugly head this April when you have to deal with the tax consequences. (Again, I doubt the Jolie-Pitts have this problem.) ...