What about deferred maintenance during those times?

With a 1031, you would have to meet stricter timelines (identify a new property within 45 days and close within 180 days) and use a qualified intermediary.Recommendation: The 1033 exchange is likely the best route if you’re looking to reinvest and defer capital gains, as it provides more flexibility.This post does not create a CPA-Client relationship.

@Randall Ayers By coincidence I was at a market update meeting this afternoon and a presenter was a hard money lender in Arizona and...wait for it...Colorado.

I preached in “The Hands-Off Investor”, as well as on stage every year in my presentations at BPCON, that one of the strongest forms of “skin in the game” is “does the sponsor have a brand to protect?”  

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If the default is not cured ten days after notice, Borrower and each surety, endorser, and guarantor waive all demand for payment, presentation for payment, notice of intention to accelerate maturity, notice of acceleration of maturity, protest, and notice of protest, to the extent permitted by law, and rights under sections 51.003, 51.004 and 51.005 of the Texas Property Code.

During a presentation on Lee Arnold's Lien Abatement program they showed us a home in Spokane where a lady had her home taken over by addicts and dealers.

Dunno, why don't you just tell the broker BEFORE it gets presented that you plan on doing a blind assignment.You know, like disclosure?

If you do not close on enough of your properties to defer all tax you will simply pay the same tax you would have at the same time you would have.

Yes, depreciation is generally meant to defer taxes but that can have a LOT of value and here is why:1.