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 |  | | December 2000 - Mara, Michael & family featured in N-Magazine (Palm Cottage, Naples Historical Society) | |
 Mara Muller is a dynamic, resourceful graduate from the Moses Brown School in Providence and McGill University in Montreal. Before Mara started her Naples career in sales and marketing in 1996, she gained invaluable "high touch" experience as one of the start-up team in the front of the house at Aqua, one of San Francisco's most sophisticated fine-dining restaurants. In 1993 Mara moved to Europe, where she acted as an immersion linguistic 'facilitator' at CERAN in Spa, Belgium preparing European NATO Officers for assignments in former Yugoslavia and training International Business Executives to expand globally. As a Realtor in Naples, Mara became a record-setting Rookie of the Year in 2002. In addition to writing the monthly column "Real Estate for Real People" for the magazine, Neapolitan Family, she is a Certified Residential Specialist (CRS, a designation earned by fewer than 4% of Realtors nationwide), an Accredited Buyer's Representative (ABR), and e-Pro agent. For the past two years the Mullers have been honored by the Naples Chapter of the Women’s Council of REALTORS® with the Top Producer Awards General Real Estate Sales! Mara enjoys volunteering in her daughters' schools and to work out in the gym. Michael Muller worked the first 10 years of his career in relationship management for the Commerzbank and Banque Nationale de Paris in Europe. In 1996 Michael, Mara and their oldest daughter moved from The Netherlands to Naples, where for six years Michael was a private banking officer and lender at Northern Trust and a VP Consulting for a Florida-based Investment Advisory firm. He enjoys volunteering at school, playing sports and history. Michael became a US Citizen in 2005. News from McGill Development and Alumni Relations in Florida: On February 28, 2008 McGill organized an exclusive reception and lecture presented by McGill Professor of Pain Studies, Dr. Jeffrey Mogil, and hosted by a generous BEng'57, DSc'94 McGill graduate in Grey Oaks, Naples. Call Mara for more information. 
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Tax Considerations >New 1031 Exchange Rules
One of the most popular "tax deferring" strategies for real estate owners who are selling one property and acquiring another is the use of Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code. It is an effective way to defer paying income tax on capital gain generated by the sale of a property when you intend to reinvest the proceeds in a similar, "like-kind" property. Almost any kind of real property is considered "like-kind" with any other real property.
A recently enacted law closes what was considered a loophole in the Section 1031 rules. In some cases, owners of investment real estate have used the 1031 Exchange to swap their investment property for real estate that could be readily converted to an owner-occupied residential property. After the exchange, they made the property into their principal residence, lived in it for a couple of years, then sold it. Now the American Job Creation Act of 2004 has ruled that properties converted from a 1031 exchange property into a residence must be held and used as a principal residence for at least five years to qualify for the tax exemption. Otherwise, the basic tax-deferring benefits of 1031 exchanges remain the same.
Consult your tax advisor for more detailed information.
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