Qualified Intermediary, Section 1031 Exchanges, Iowa, Midwest, and across the US

Guidance on the exchange of vacation homes via Revenue Procedure 2008-16 was provided recently by the Internal Revenue Service. This procedure was brought about as a result of last year’s case in Tax Court Moore v. Commissioner, (T.C. Memo 2007-134) and a subsequent report by the Treasury Inspect...

The first Iowa Land Investment Expo was held in West Des Moines, Iowa, last Friday, February 15, 2008, at the West Des Moines Marriott. The event brought together a diverse group of investors, farmers, exhibitors and others. The day started off with a discussion between Don DeWaay of DeWaay Capit...

Today’s Farm Bill / Section 1031 update has to do with comments made today at the Iowa Land Investment Expo by Elizabeth Williams of DTN. Her assignment, as one of the keynote speakers, was to update the attendees on the Farm Bill. I expected her to discuss subsidies, pricing issues, and so forth...

Although there is little doubt that my typical blog posting is full of humor from start to finish… I’ve never written a blog that was designed at the outset to be humorous. Okay, so that first part is a stretch... At any rate, the Washington Post apparently periodically asks its readers to submi...

One more time on the Farm Bill… I reported in my blog Would You Like Some Good News? Success Regarding Like-Kind Status in the Farm Bill on January 25, 2008, that the provision in the Senate version of the bill that had sought to re-define like-kind status as it pertains to subsidized agricultura...

You are invited to the Omaha1 Real Estate Investment Association meeting to be held on Monday, February 18, 2008, at the Westside Community Conference Center, 3534 South 108th Street, Omaha, Nebraska, and beginning at 7:00 p.m. Come hear Ken Tharp from IOWA EQUITY EXCHANGE speak on the subject o...

The first Iowa Land Investment Expo will be held in Des Moines, Iowa, this Friday, February 15, 2008, at the West Des Moines Marriott, 1250 Jordan Creek Parkway, West Des Moines, Iowa. IOWA EQUITY EXCHANGE is pleased to be an Exhibitor at this great event. Ken Tharp will be present all day to an...

Commercial revenues were up at one firm during 2007, according to an article in the Commercial Real Estate Weekly email publication of Business Publications Corporation in Des Moines, Iowa. The Quad City Times reports that NAI Ruhl & Ruhl Commercial Company set a sales record for the firm in 200...

What possible connection could land, India, crop prices, and Hershey’s chocolates have to one another? This may take a few minutes… Three recent articles have driven home to me the reasons that the public is unusually uncertain about what is going on in our economy. First was an article online at...