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Everyone who considers selling a property wants to minimize the tax cost of doing so.
In today's market conditions, however, the usual way of postponing or reducing the tax – through a tax-deferred exchange under Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code – isn't working as well as it once did.
A fully tax-deferred exchange requires that you maintain or increase the amount of debt when you acquire a replacement property, but market values and expected debt service coverage for the replacement property may be inadequate for the amount of debt needed.
Property owners (and owners of capital assets of all kinds, for that matter) have struggled to find a viable tax-deferral solution in today's conditions. It hasn't been easy.
Experience teaches us, however, that sometimes the best solution to a problem is the simplest and most direct one, and sometimes it's been there all along, just waiting for us to see it.
We saw the solution when we looked for something that would be the equivalent of tax deferral. What we saw was simple, direct, and just waiting to be put to use by sellers such as you.