CYCLING UP! Several years ago, I had the opportunity to listen to a noted professor and author by the name of Glenn Mueller. In addition to being on the faculty at the University of Denver, he also has written several notable research publications. One of the things that Mueller often talks about is what phase we are in according to the real estate cycle and as we close out 2014 and look forward to 2015, I have no doubt that…

A lot of things happened in 2013. A new pope was elected, JP Morgan was slapped with a record $13 billion penalty and Lou Reed took a permanent walk on the wild side. But one of the most impactful to many of us (or at least to our wallet) was a series of changes that were enacted in the United States tax code. Some of these changes were big headlines while others may have slipped through relatively unnoticed. But with one year under our collective belts and a…