This time might be used to bank away money for your down payment, seek a higher paying job, or
reduce other kinds of debt that may be holding you back.
Other primary positives include: interest deductibility on real estate maintained, like -
kind exchanges on real property maintained, the home mortgage deduction being preserved (but
reduced to $ 750,000
of mortgage
debt), and
reduced foreign withholding on capital gains distributions (35 % to 21 %).