Ruth Van Derostyne's (rvanderostyne) Blog

  Year End Tax Issues:   If a Taxpayer closes an exchange Between October 17th and December 31st; Files their tax return on April 15th; Desires the ability to have up to 180 calendar days to complete their exchange by purchasing one or more replacement properties…   then the Taxpayer must:   File...

A colleague of mine and I were talking about the evergrowing scenario of investment properties that have no equity and the relevancy to the 1031 Exchange. Our conclusion is you still might want to Exchange even if you have no equity or even a loss in your current investment property.  If any of y...

I have been in the exchange field for over 20 years and have always been threatened of losing my job because they are going to take away the code.   Furthermore, every year, nothing happens.  Now today's Delima is with all of the exchange companies going "belly up" and the banks are at risk, my c...