According to Bob Nelson, nothing’s more critical than the 45 day replacement property identification period for 1031 exchanges. Here he and David Moore share some of their wisdom.
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David: Hello again, David Moore of Equity Advantage with Bob Nelson of Pacwest Real Estate, and once again if you’ve been with us you’ve heard my introductions, but Bob is an old friend. Been doing business together since roughly 1990. Had a lot of fun. Done a lot of deals.
Hopefully we’ve done okay for our clients, and one of the things that we talked about early on is if you go back pre 1991, with unlimited ID’s, buyer’s are liars, I remember rifling through the old RLMS books and people would be concerned about whether they should put something in about a 1031 provision because they felt that people didn’t know what it is and maybe they were afraid of it and that whole segment…
Bob: Or take advantage of it.
David: …Exactly, so that whole sentiment has gone away, but if we look at it in today’s world, you have a situation where I would argue that a 1031 buyer is actually a more solid buyer in a lot of cases than somebody walking off the street because they have timed events that have to happen. If they don’t get it done…
Bob: And they know the consequence of not getting it done.
David: Hopefully, if they’ve got good tax counsel.
We’ve got a presentation today at CCIM about tax reform, and they had a great CPA come in, Dale Glassor from Isler Northwest who spoke. He Talked about the bottom line, which is that unfortunately not enough people have good tax counsel. And you want to take advantage of these resources. What I want to say is, Bob you moderate those, the marketing sessions at CCIM.
You do a wonderful job and one of the things that just drives me crazy, is during those marketing sessions we have people that have property looking for buyers, we have people with money looking for property, and what drives me crazy is somebody will stand up and say, “Hey, I’m in a 1031. My guy’s 45th day is next Tuesday.”
Now you have 100 and some odd people sitting in the room, with brokers that say, “Hmm, this is a great. I know this…”
Bob: Fresh meat.
David:Exactly, fresh meat.
David: What comments do you have along those lines as far as controlling deals? We’ve talked about this before, but how do you make sure that things are there and people understand that this 1031 buyer isn’t a spot? As a broker how do you represent whether you’re a listing broker or a buyers broker…
David: What do you do to make sure you are taking care of your client?
Bob: First of all, the client has to understand the seriousness of the position, and I will assure you if they are dealing with me they will be very familiar with that. They will be familiar with the time frames of operating within the 45th day, the 45 day period. And there is no extension of the 45 day period.
Technically all you have to do is identify. If you are working with me and having me do the brokerage work on the 1031 transaction, we’ll know that by the end of the second week we are going to here, by the end of the third week here, by the end of the fourth week here, and so forth because when the end of the 6th week comes, that’s the the 45th day, we will be very close to closing.
If every thing has been done properly in advance, we will be very, very close to being able to close the transaction and that perfects the exchange. If we can close it within the 45 day period, nothing can go wrong.
There’s still another 135 days behind that, that’s allowed for you to “close the transaction” but if you don’t have that thing under contract by the end of the 45th day, if you don’t have the due diligence out-of-the-way by the end of the 45th day, if you don’t really know what you’re buying, it’s a train wreck. And if you don’t like it on the 46th day, but you spit the hook and that was the only property you identified, guess what? You pay the tax and that’s it. And I don’t like to be known for failure. I don’t like to be known for anything other than 100% success, so if you’re working with me, it will be in those time frames.
David: So if you’re a buyers broker, obviously you’re not going to let the sellers broker know what’s been ID’d. Or where you are on the 45th and 180 days.
Bob: No, that’s confidential information.
David: On the other hand if you’re the listing broker and you’ve got a buyer coming in, you’re going to do everything you can to find out what’s been ID’d and where they are with that stuff, and the bottom line is people will tell you some prices go up beyond where they should because of the 1031 exchange.
David: The bottom line is if somebody is looking at a half a million dollar tax consequence of a failed exchange, or paying an extra $20,000 to fix something, what are they going to do?
Bob: Yeah, they’ve lost a lot of their leverage capacity because of the time frame and the constraints of the exchange and they know if they fail, they pay the tax. And there should be a law against paying the tax. It’s a very serious situation, and as long as it works properly it’s never enough time and I assure you if you’re my client and we’ve gone through this process you will say things to me like, “You’re asking for me to make offers and I haven’t seen it all.”
That’s right. I’ve given you a two week period of time plus whatever additional time that we had prior to the time that you sold the property that you’re going to be exchanging forward end of the transaction, so if I can meet with you well in advance of the time we sell, the relinquished property or as I refer to it the down leg property that adds more time and more comfort and you will feel more comfortable that you have seen enough that it works, but I go through a lot of counseling sessions. Three of them particularly to allow me to re-hone in what you are after.
Now I don’t think in terms of a property with a blue roof and red bricks. I think in terms of investment benefits. There’s cashflow. There’s tax shelter. If we are dealing with a mortgaged property, there’s principle reduction. The fact that the tenant in an income property will be making 12 rent payments, which will reduce the loan.
David: I think Bob’s going into the next segment here.
Bob: Oops.
David: Yeah, I think he is bleeding into the next segment in investment strategies.
Bob: Yeah, sorry.
David: No, no worries. See it’s all good stuff. We just want to keep talking, right?
David: So I think that the bottom line is you’re going to control the transaction.
Bob: If you don’t control the transaction then you’re heading for a train wreck. I’ll assure you, there’s no such thing as luck when it comes to exchanging.
David: And we can buy the replacement the same day that the relinquished property goes away, if it’s setup right. So if you got things right, we can wire funds straight from one closing to the next. Once in a while in certain regions of the country we have closings that aren’t done by professional escrow companies and sometimes goes into a holding account…
Yeah, so then we can’t do things or if were going East to West maybe we’ve got time issues, or not East to West, West to East. We’ve got issues there getting things done the same day.
Bob: But that’s workable.
David: But it’s a time deal.
Bob: Sure.
David: So let’s pick back up with a conversation next time on the strategies you were talking about, and thank you very much for once again joining us and we look forward to having you back. Thank you.
There are more than a few sad stories of people who weren’t able to get their replacement property identified within the requirements of the law. Make sure you get professional help with your 1031 exchange; give Bob a call today!
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