A good Professional agent will defend your best interests, even when you yourself are the threat against them.

He has now disappeared on us which has delayed our projects and had us go get another electrician.

So if it's not needed, has not replaced anything, has nothing reliant on it...... it can also disappear.

Quote from @Jeff Green: When you did the 1031, the $500K gain from House 1 didn’t disappear — it got carried over into your replacement propertiesIf you sell House 2 later without doing another 1031, you trigger:•the deferred $500K from House 1 plus•the new $100K gain on House 2Total taxable gain = $600KThe full $500,000 wasn't deferred from the 1031 Exchange.She sold $700,000 worth of property and only replaced it with $500,000($200,000 + $300,000).She should have a conversation with her accountant because it depends on multiple factors such as how much depreciation was taken on the property, how much basis was allocated as part of the replacement properites, etc.

But the margins disappear fast when you don’t have reserves, timelines slip, contractors change their number, or the deal hits one unexpected problem.

When a historic premium disappears, it’s rarely just about money—it’s about confidence.

Affordable housing is disappearing and mobile homes in parks are getting very expensive both in cost and pad rent. 

and Turned It Into a $269K WinEvery investor has that one horror story — the contractor who disappears mid-job, the project that goes sideways, and the numbers that stop making sense.One of our investors recently lived it.They were over-leveraged, stressed, and had already lost $30,000 to a contractor who never finished the work.

.,  Nathan G. and many others have recently disappeared.  

Without REPS status (or unless you’re operating short-term rentals under the special STR rules), losses from rental properties can’t be used to offset W-2 income.Short-term rentals and REPS each provide a way to use real estate losses to offset other active income, but they each come with specific rules and challenges.Even if you can’t use the losses right now, they don’t disappear.