Serving as Qualified Intermediary to Professional Advisors and their Clients since 1989 on Forward, Improvement, Reverse, Parking, Personal Property, Multi Asset and Foreign Section 1031 Exchanges.
1031 Advisor
February 2008
 


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Stephen L. Robison, J.D., LL.M
Taxation and Business

Your Trusted
Section 1031 Advisor Newsletter

Great Service Leads to Great Opportunities and Vice-versa

  • How do you describe "Great Service"? Professional Advisors provide great service when they understand their client's goals and provide advice and resources to meet those unique goals.
  • What is "Great Service" in the 1031 Exchange Business? In the 1031 exchange business, providing Great Service means that each Exchange receives a Solution tailored for the client’s unique needs and goals backed up with a clear and concise Tax and Service Guarantee. No mistakes, No tax penalties, period.  Clients expect, and have the right to demand, that their advisor have the expertise and knowledge to properly guide them through their transactions.  Does this always happen??  Unfortunately not.
  • What is Your Opportunity with Guaranteed Expertise?  By working with a certified 1031 Expert with a Tax and Service Guarantee, you can increase your efficiency and productivity by focusing on serving the overall needs of the client. You can avoid writing off preliminary research time associated with the complexities of IRS rules related to Section 1031 exchanges and minimize any inadvertent errors and malpractice risk while you maintain the role of the client’s primary advisor.
  • Bad Service is like a Virus. We have all experienced bad service from time to time and we know what it feels like.

IDEA #1: In difficult economic times, help Business Owners Conserve their Capital and Build their Wealth.

To operate and expand their businesses, Owners often put all their savings and wealth on the line. Every dollar saved helps to build that wealth. The single largest business opportunity, which is missed daily, is to reduce the estimated 45% tax burden on the purchase and sale of business assets. Businesses can manage their business assets by using tax deferred exchanges, such as Exchanges of Personal Property.

When most people think of 1031 Exchanges, they only think of Real Estate. The fact is that businesses can defer their taxes through Exchanges of Personal Property. This can include: (1) tangible assets, such as planes, trains and automobiles, as well as (2) intangible assets, such as copyrights, patents and customer based assets. Let Strategic Property Exchanges advise you and your clients on single and multiple personal property exchanges.

IDEA #2: Opposite Thinking can be the Best Thinking!

While many advisors have a passing familiarity with 1031 Exchanges, only a handful of 1031 Exchanges are designed as Reverse Exchanges. The Reverse Exchange format was approved by the IRS in 2000. Reverse Exchanges provide numerous strategic, tactical and economic advantages over a standard Deferred [Forward] Exchange for the sophisticated Real Estate Investor. Most of the hesitancy of investors to initiating a 1031 exchange can be resolved by using a Reverse Exchange Format. Many negative issues with Section 1031 Exchanges can be eliminated by utilizing a Reverse Exchange.

IDEA #3: Guaranteed Service Enhances your Practice and Reduces your Risks (and Malpractice too!)

A large Cleveland Law Firm, now refers their 1031 Exchanges to Strategic Property Exchanges, LLC, after they suffered a significant malpractice expense on a 1031 Exchange. Comprehensive expertise, attention to detail, individualized attention to each client, combined with our E&O insurance and our Tax Opinions provides personalized service that reflects well on your Firm, protects your client from IRS challenge, as well as complies with Circular 230, FASB FIN 48, IRS penalties and protects your firm from malpractice arising from inadvertent errors.

Strategic Property Exchanges: Our Seven Service Guarantees!

  • Exchange funds are fully insured
  • Unlimited consultation and tax planning
  • Protection with Errors and Omission insurance policy
  • Covered Tax opinion protects client and advisor
  • Complies with: Circular 230; FASB FIN 48; Section 6662; Schedule M-3; Sabanes Oxley 404
  • Advisor protection from IRS sanctions and penalties relating to Circular 230
  • IRS "audit-proof" auditing package included

UPCOMING SEMINARS

February 12, 2008
Indianapolis, IN

Section 1031 Exchanges
Presented to Indianapolis REIA

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NBI SEMINARS

February 19, 2008
Indianapolis, IN

Advanced Section 1031 Exchanges
Event# 42449

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February 21, 2008
Lexington, KY

Advanced Section 1031 Exchanges

Event# 42452
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March 19, 2008
Cleveland, OH


Advanced Section 1031 Exchanges
Event# 42631

All NBI seminars
will be held
8:30 A.M. - 4:40 P.M.

For more information
visit the NBI web site at www.nbi-sems.com

Contact

Strategic
Property
Exchanges, LLC

Toll Free:
800-427-7212

Phone:
513-412-3481

Email:
steve@spe1031.com

Web site:
www.spe1031.com

Strategic Property Exchanges, LLC can help Advisors and their clients. Stephen L. Robison, a full time tax attorney that is Board Certified as a Federal Tax specialist, is a practicing Qualified Intermediary. Mr. Robison and the team at Strategic Property Exchanges will provide you and your clients with all of the Services or Safeguards to the Section 1031 Exchanges.
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