If you sell investment property and use a Section 1031 Exchange to defer taxes on the capital gains, you could end up losing all of your sales proceeds, still owing the capital gains tax to the IRS, and have no effective recourse...
Banks have certainly enjoyed a nice run on Wall Street lately. But if borrowers were hoping that a bump in stock prices would translate to sweeter deals on commercial real estate loans—think again. It is business as usual for bank lenders...