Hi - a flip I have under contract to buy is finally ready. For all of you tax pros is there any benefit to buying it tomorrow in 2016 versus waiting until 2017? It will be back on the market ready to sell by 2/1.

I think we'll make it but is there a way to get auction postponed just in case?  

Also We went to this place last week and they postponed it until this week.

I should have been in Cph this weekend but it is postponed till next weekend.I am working on starting buying realestate on Fyn and Jylland.

They are obliged to deliver vacant so if you must can you postpone at all to assure they do deliver vacant?  

It's possible to re-zone a property but it is an extended affair that could take at least 6 months, plan on 12 (figure several postponed city council hearings, hoops to jump through, etc. and you get the idea), and I would not count on that as part of the deal at all - that should be "gravy", not something you count on for the deal to work at all.The best thing I think you can do is ride by the property, maybe talk to neighbors in the area too, and see if you can figure out why it's zoned Light Industrial.

What's least understood is that while the building tenant or upper corporate management located elsewhere may sincerely believe they're making the right choice in the best interest of the company to save money, in most cases, the end result leaves much to be desired whereby the tenant may actually be unaware of their having to pay more money in postponing the inevitable making an existing condition much worse than it is as time goes on.

I was going to go last nite to the REIA Augusta meeting but I wanted to hear the webinar that was postponed to the same time.

Here is why I never advise postponing closings, no matter what tax ramifications are.

If you've purchased before you probably have some experience with that (in terms of things like properties being on the docket and being dropped or postponed prior to the auction, etc).