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A $480K CCRC Entrance Fee Can Cost $1.2M More Than Renting the Same Community
Continuing care retirement communities offer an entrance-fee contract or a no-entrance-fee rental option — and the sticker prices hide the real cost: what that locked-up entrance fee could have earned if invested instead.
The 2026 SALT Cap Jumped to $40,400 — Enough to Flip Many Households Back to Itemizing
The 2017 tax law nearly doubled the standard deduction and capped SALT at $10,000, pushing most filers off itemizing. A 2025 law partially reverses that for high-tax-state homeowners — quietly, and for a limited time.