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Checking & Taxes Personal  Capital gains tax break is a boon for
most owners    - advertisement -       Still some requirements
to meet       And your actual habitation of the home doesn't
have to be sequential, notes Mark Luscombe, lawyer, accountant
and principal tax analyst at CCH Inc., a Riverwoods, Ill.-based
provider of tax law information and software. The IRS lets you
aggregate your time living in the house to meet the two-year
residency requirement.  "Generally, if you owned and used the
home as your main home for periods totaling at least two years
within five years ending on the date of these sale, you're
eligible for the exclusion," says RIA's Trinz. "You look back at
the last five years. Ownership and use may be at two different
times. This would apply if you owned a home for five years, but
didn't use it as your p