In a 1031 exchange, you may find that you have some boot items on the settlement statement that you clearly don’t want to pay for out of the 1031 proceeds. In this situation, the first thing you want to look at is whether you have some of your own money in the transaction that you can apply toward these items. For example, if there was an earnest money deposit that you paid for the replacement property, you could earmark a portion or all of that deposit to pay for the boot items.
Additionally, you may be getting some credits from the other side. Maybe the seller has agreed to give you a concession of some kind. You could apply that credit from the other side to pay for boot items.
Lastly, you can choose to pay for these boot items with outside money. Send in your 1031 exchange funds from the intermediary to pay for the exchange, and then send in non-1031 exchange funds out of your own pocket to pay for the boot items.
However you approach this, it’s important to inform the closing agent so they can properly notate the settlement statement.
Like-Kind Exchanges of Real Property
Like-kind exchanges of real property offer tax-saving benefits that are available to all US taxpayers. When you sell a property in a 1031 exchange, you reinvest all of your net proceeds from the sale into a new replacement property. This allows you to continue your investment while deferring your capital gains taxes from the sale of the relinquished property. Contact the intermediaries at CPEC1031, LLC to learn more about how you can save money with a 1031 exchange. Our team has more than twenty years of experience facilitating exchanges under section 1031 of the IRC.
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