21st Century Real Estate Investing

About the Book

In an easy to read format and plain language, this book provides you with a wealth of knowledge about real estate investing; encouraging you to start young if you want the comfortable retirement that leverage and compounding can provide, but also teaching you how to benefit from real estate investing no matter what your age--young, middle age, baby boomer or senior. From entrance to exit strategies, this book teaches you that everyone can be a real estate investor and that everyone should be a real estate investor—and it’s not that hard. You will learn not only that real estate returns can be impressive, but also how those returns can be enhanced by tax benefits--from purchase to resale. All of the real estate exit strategies are, for the first time, in one book: discounted gifting, charitable remainder trust, ordinary installment sale, self directed installment sale, structured sale, UPREIT, lease option, seller financing, development, syndication, and probably most important—1031 exchange. This book will dispel the mysteries and myths of 1031 exchange and teach you how this simple and inexpensive tool can work for you. This book will also teach you how to overcome the most daunting aspect of 1031 exchange—finding replacement property. Like nowhere else, this book lays out for you all of the replacement property alternatives. The choices will surprise you. This book concludes by teaching you about the alternative that is sweeping the country—tenant-in-common (TIC) replacement property.

About the Author

After graduating from law school in 1973, Mr. Riddell was affiliated with a lawfirm in Southfield, Michigan that specialized in real estate limited partnership syndications before moving to Florida in 1983. Mr. Riddell has been a Florida Bar Board Certified Real Estate Attorney since 1986, and is the owner of Riddell Law Group in Sarasota, Florida and Riddell Title & Escrow, LLC, a Florida licensed title insurance agency. Mr. Riddell has assisted clients with 1031 exchanges for more than twenty years. His company, U.S. 1031 Exchange Services, Inc., is a 1031 exchange qualified intermediary (QI) and a member of the Federation of Exchange Accommodators (FEA). Mr. Riddell has been awarded the Certified Exchange Specialist (CES) certification from FEA, and he has held a Florida real estate broker license since 1986 and a Florida mortgage broker license since 1992, and is licensed as a securities registered representative (Series 7 and 63). Mr. Riddell has also received the CEA (Certified Estate Advisor) certification from the National Association of Financial and Estate Planning (NAFEP) and CSA (Certified Senior Advisor) certification from the Society of Certified Senior Advisors, and he now holds a Florida life, health and variable annuities license. Mr. Riddell is also a Pensco Trust Preferred Professional relative of real estate investments in self directed retirement accounts. Mr. Riddell lives in Sarasota, Florida with his wife, Julie, and two children, Cyndi and Mark.