#234 - He Skipped The 1031 Exchange On Purpose — And Made Money Doing It with Michael Engelmeyer

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On today's episode, we are back in the studio with Michael Engelmeyer.

We discuss:

- Michael buys his first 80 acres as a tax play and leases it back to his own photography studio.

- He "liberates" an underground spring with a bulldozer and has four gobblers on the dam by sunrise.

- Michael doubles his money in three years, going from $1,400 an acre to $3,000 an acre.

- He sells the farm himself with a full-page newspaper ad built from his own trail camera photos.

- Michael skips the 1031 exchange on purpose, pays the capital gains, and invests the proceeds.

- He explains how a 90-day 1031 clock pushes buyers into farms they never should have bought.

- Michael walks away from a 3,400-acre Ozarks ranch over $200 an acre and gets it a year later.

- The sellers refuse $1,500 an acre at auction, then call him back and take $1,100.

- He argues square and rectangular parcels hunt better than odd-shaped ground at any price.