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Investor Exchange

Sell a rental without emptying it.

List a tenant-occupied property to investors who buy them that way — no showings on your tenants, no vacancy, no listing circus. You state your price, your rent and your lease. Tim reviews it, adds a signed opinion of value, and publishes it to account-holding investors in Half Moon Bay.

List a rental you’d sell →

Takes about five minutes. You see the finished memorandum before you submit it.

Investor-owned homes in Half Moon Bay

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Listed for Exchange

Tenant-occupied Half Moon Bay property published by its owner, each with Tim’s signed opinion of value. Price, rent and yield open with a free account.

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How it works
  1. 01
    You publish the facts

    Address, asking price, current rent, lease remaining, photos.

  2. 02
    Tim reviews it

    He signs an opinion of value in his own name and licence.

  3. 03
    It goes live

    Only to investors holding an account in this market.

  4. 04
    An investor writes

    Offers reach you through the agent. Nothing binds until a contract is signed.

Nothing you enter is visible to anyone but Tim until he approves and publishes it. You can withdraw at any point.

A ladder, not a cliff

Selling isn't the only rung.

Most owners think the choice is keep it or sell it and pay the tax. Under IRC §1031 there are three doors — and the second and third are the ones nobody explains.

1Keep collecting

Rent, repairs, the 11pm call. No tax event, no change.

2Sell outright

Cash in hand, tax due this year. The cliff most owners picture.

3Exchange up

Defer the tax, move the same capital into a better asset.

4Exchange to passive

Defer the tax, keep the income, hand off the management.

Rungs 3 and 4 run on the same clock: 45 days to identify, 180 to close, and the proceeds must never touch your hands — a qualified intermediary holds them. Miss a date and it becomes rung 2 whether you wanted it or not.

Three ways out

What do you want the money to do?

01

Sell

Take the cash and settle up. Capital gains, depreciation recapture and state tax come due in the year you close. Simplest — and the most expensive of the three if you were going to reinvest anyway.

Cash out
02

Exchange for a better asset

Roll the proceeds into another investment property and defer the tax. Newer building, better location, less management — the same capital doing more work.

Defer & upgrade
03

Exchange for passive income

Some owners want the income without the tenants. Fractional structures such as a Delaware Statutory Trust can qualify as replacement property. A DST is a security, not real estate — sold by licensed securities professionals, not by Tim, and not right for everyone.

Hands off

Tim is a licensed real estate broker — not a CPA, attorney, qualified intermediary or securities representative. None of the above is tax, legal or investment advice, or an offer of any security. Talk to your own CPA and a qualified intermediary before you list, not after.

Talk it through

Twenty minutes, no pitch.

Bring the address, the rent and roughly what you owe. You will leave knowing which rung actually fits, what the timing looks like, and what it would net — whether or not you ever list anything.

What we cover

  • What the property would realistically bring today
  • Whether an exchange is worth the clock, or selling outright is cleaner
  • Who you need on the team — CPA, qualified intermediary — and when
  • What a tenant-in-place sale looks like on the Exchange
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Tim McMullen · Tim McMullen, Broker, CA DRE #02016832 · DRE #02016832