Arrangements like the one you suggest (where the agent gets a share of the revenue or an equity split) are way outside the norm, and outside the scope of a listing agreement - you'd likely need an attorney to draft such a partnership or JV, you may need affiliated business disclosures and other documents to comply with numerous federal laws, and these are not deals a real estate agent can necessarily enter into without their broker's awareness and consent.

@Don Harris I didn't realize there was that huge a difference in taxation, I'd only gone as far as the taxes being 6% of assessed value for investors (instead of 4% for primary residence) I'll try to come by the REIA Meetup as soon as possible, thanks for the invite!

This will virtually always eliminate the section 8 tenant.In summary, I suspect there are numerous ways other than source of income to not select section 8 including having high end units with rents higher than FMR, using move-in date as a criteria, etc.Good luck

From there the amount is diminished until you reach 150k in income at which point you lose the ability to write off real estate investment losses against your income taxes.I went over this example numerous times before posting the question as I wanted to try and get my facts straight.

Listen to numerous podcast and attend REIA meetings.  

It may be that one buyer is known to reliably close, or will reliably work with the seller on their 1031, or numerous other things. 

Unfortunately I do not have the details to the event because I was invited by a good friend of mine.

And they do not like entity changes immediately prior to sale and 1031 in general.But there's still an answer that we've used numerous times with clients. 

Thx for the invite :)

This avoids those numerous calls.