1031 Exchange News Lines 

LIVE CHAT TODAY: What are 1031 exchange accounts? (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
What are 1031 exchange accounts? How do they work? What is the process? And what do investors need to know when they put proceeds from the sale of investment property into a 1031 account to defer capital-gains taxes? Join us today from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m. at TimesDispatch.com for an online chat about 1031 exchange programs. Three local experts will answer your questions during the chat.

Online chat Monday about 1031 exchange accounts (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
And what do investors need to know when they put proceeds from the sale of investment property into a 1031 exchange account to defer capital gains taxes? Join us tomorrow from 12:30 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. at TimesDispatch.com for an online chat about 1031 exchange programs. Three local experts will answer your questions during the chat.

About 1031 Exchanges (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
They are called 1031 exchanges after the section of the Internal Revenue Service code that allows them. There is no federal oversight, certification or regulation of 1031 exchange companies. A handful of states have laws regarding them, but not Virginia. Here?s how a 1031 exchange works: The owner sells the investment property. The seller has 45 days after the sale to identify up to three ...

Times Ticker (Papillion Times)
Cactus & Succulent Show and Sale

Um, the gym will totally still be there after you finish that creme brulee. (Las Vegas CityLife)
American

Fraud imperils future of feeding program (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Greed has put in doubt the future of the Lourdes Lunch Program, a little slice of kindness on the corner of Auburn Avenue and Boulevard in Atlanta.

CWA OKs changes in state contract (Courier-Post)
Employees in New Jersey's largest state-worker union overwhelmingly ratified a revised contract agreement Tuesday that defers a raise and trades furloughs this year for future vacation days.

O?Gara Group's new sales agreement with Westmoreland (The Journal Press)
O?Gara Group's new sales agreement with Westmoreland O?Gara Group has a new contract with Westmoreland County. The new sales agreement was unanimously approved by the Westmoreland Industrial Development Authority this Monday night. A predecessor contract would have expired on June 30 at midnight. According to the June 29 sales agreement, the county will convey its 50,000 industrial shell ...

Aust stocks fall after drop on Wall St (BigPond News)
The Australian share market has opened lower following falls on Wall Street.

Okun facing 400 years in $126 million scam (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Former Miami businessman Edward Hugh Okun is facing 400 years in prison when his two-day sentencing hearing starts Aug. 4. Okun, 58, was convicted in March of 23 charges in a $126 million scam that victimized hundreds across the country. The scam was run through Okun?s now-defunct, Richmond-based businesses, Investment Properties of America and The 1031 Tax Group. It has not been disclosed why ...

---

	"More Property Investors Join As Tenants-in-Common" March 17, 2006
	"Commercial Real Estate: Money Flowing to New Way to Pool Buyers" September 22 2004

---