I will be using retirement funds and for that reason in order to defer taxes.

Long term strategy is to hold until it makes sense to sell, and that might be after only 2 years so I can reap the benefits without getting killed in taxes.

Hope this helps!

In my state that would be an expensive change as I would be paying state transfer tax on the move along with other costs plus I would need to consider whether I wanted to buy title insurance on the property for the new LLC.

For probably 90% of the people it does not provide anonymity, it doesn't protect you from liability, and it doesn't save you any taxes. 

More to come...Sometimes you hope for the numbers to work on behalf of your borrowers.

https://www.biggerpockets.com/...BiggerPockets has a tax pro resource page.

@Susan McBride you can certainly leave this post here but this should go in the Tax and Cost Segregation forum. 

Hope that helps Dave

I would like to sell the property to the restaurant operator and they are willing to buy. i want to hold the paper on it to get the interest and what I'm hoping for is deferring the capital gains taxes until the balloon payment would be due in 5 years.