1031 Property Exchange Investment Strategies

This information reprinted with permission from Strategic Property Exchanges, LLC, the 1031 property exchange experts.

Section 1031 can help real investors in a number of ways, including, preservation of capital gains to acquire more desirable properties and increase your rate of return by reducing the amount of taxes you pay on your real estate investments. One of the more common questions I am asked each week involves seller financing, installment sales and leases with options to buy. As a Purchaser, a Lease with Option to Buy permits an investor to carefully time the acquisition date of the replacement property as long as the transaction is not treated as a disguised purchase. Do not treat any of the lease payments as credited to the purchase price. As a Seller of the property, a real estate owner can also time the sale of the property, enabling the Seller to find suitable replacement property while ensuring a sale of the property within a certain time frame... [ Read the full article ]

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