Sample Legal Beneficiary Vesting for Seller Carry Back Notes

When you sell real estate or personal property that will be part of a 1031 exchange and you carry back an installment note (seller carry back financing) to facilitate the sale of the asset, the installment note must also be included as part of the 1031 exchange account held by your Qualified Intermediary in order to defer all of your income tax liabilities.

In other words, the note must be owned by and held by your Qualified Intermediary. You can learn more by reading our web page entitled "Seller Carry-Back Financing Combined with a 1031 Exchange."

The procedure to include the seller carry-back installment note as part of your 1031 exchange account is actually very easy. The installment note and the corresponding deed of trust or mortgage documents would be drafted with the Qualified Intermediary listed as the beneficiary or owner.

The installment note and corresponding documents cannot be drafted with your name listed as the beneficiary or owner. The documents must be drafted in the name of the Qualified Intermediary so that the Qualified Intermediary owns the installment note as part of your 1031 exchange account.

Drafting the note in your name will trigger "constructive receipt" of your 1031 exchanges funds or assets and create a taxable event.

Notes incorrectly drafted with your name as the beneficiary or owner cannot be corrected after the close of the transaction and generally will be treated as boot and taxed as an installment sale note under Section 453 of the Internal Revenue Code.

The following is the legal beneficiary vesting used on the installment note and corresponding deed of trust or mortgage when we adminster a tax-deferred exchange transaction:

Exeter 1031 Exchange Services, LLC,
as Qualified Intermediary for Exchange No. 00 0000
for the benefit of Jane Doe
402 West Broadway, Suite 400
San Diego, California 92101

Of course, this would not be required if you do not want to include the seller carry back note as part of your 1031 exchange and would prefer to treat it as an installment sale under Section 453 of the Internal Revenue Code. The documents would then be drafted with your name listed as the beneficiary or owner.

You can learn more at http://www.exeter1031.com/seller_carry_back_legal_vesting.aspx.