Property Tax Consultant
Here is an interesting article that I tracked down at https://propertytaxtransfertrusts.com/ regarding a California Property Tax Consultant that can help you with challenging property tax issues. It is an interview with Michael Wyatt and goes into detail on California Proposition 58 and Proposition 13 as it relates to Trusts and Irrevocable Trusts. You can view the either article here: Property Tax Specialist
Michael Wyatt’s very busy consulting and advisory firm in Corona, California, Michael Wyatt Consulting, works with attorneys, CPAs, financial planners, real estate brokers and their clients; who have real property and require assistance with a property tax issue. Mr. Wyatt believes that each and every client is unique, and comes to his firm with unique real property requirements. No one is a simple number on a list at Mr. Wyatt’s firm. All real estate services are designed to customize every client’s real estate needs and solutions, with decades of experience behind every analysis, insight & service.
For 25 years, Mr. Wyatt functioned successfully as a star appraiser for the Orange County Assessor’s Office – and was consistently given the most difficult commercial, retail, office, industrial, residential and apartment project appraisal assignments. As Operations Manager, Mr. Wyatt served as a senior Commercial & Residential Review Appraiser. Michael Wyatt provided valuation and legal assistance to the Assessor’s Office top management and staff on current Assessor Office guidelines and procedures, with respect to property tax laws, appraisal best practices and techniques.
Michael Wyatt Consulting annually reviews clients’ real estate values. The firm studies and forms strategy for proposed real estate transactions, along with ensuring property tax assessment avoidance. Mr. Wyatt conducts comprehensive real property research, reviews real estate deeds and other instruments for accuracy prior to recording; and serves as a liaison between clients and the Assessor’s Office – maintaining smooth, issue-free communications, coordination and cooperation with Assessors and other essential governmental agencies.
Part one of the interview with Michael Wyatt, a California Property Tax Consultant
Property Tax Transfer: Mr. Wyatt, thank you so much for speaking with us today.
Michael Wyatt: Very glad to be able to do it.
Property Tax Transfer: Can you tell us how you view Proposition 58, and how you explain this unique property transfer tax break to new clients? You must have to teach certain clients about what’s involved to keep parents property taxes, avoiding property tax reassessment and what they need to focus on in order to transfer parents property taxes to themselves when inheriting property, and what’s involved with California property tax transfer, and inheriting property taxes…
Michael Wyatt: You let them know that the Proposition 58 tax benefit entitles children of parents leaving them property to preserve the low Proposition 13 maximum 2% tax base. A California property tax transfer. However, a lot of people don’t fully understand that you have to apply for the benefit. It’s not automatic. And it doesn’t apply to the principal home.
Property Tax Transfer: What about explaining restrictions on this tax break?
Michael Wyatt: You have to explain to them that they get the assessed value tax benefit only if it’s a non principal home. You get the assessed value waved if for example it‘s a million dollar property… You get the million excluded – but the overage is reassessed… A lot of people don’t know that. The creators of the trust get this benefit.
Property Tax Transfer: Michael Wyatt Consulting frequently works with the popular trust lender Commercial Loan Corporation, providing clients with trust loans. Beside talking to them about the California property tax transfer, how do you describe California Proposition 58, and that whole process to prospects or clients, that are sort of inexperienced with all this?
Michael Wyatt: We basically introduce the trust lender, for example Commercial Loan Corporation, as a private money lender that loans to irrevocable trusts, that applies for and works in tandem with California Proposition 58… for beneficiaries who are looking to sell their real property shares – for the purpose of facilitating “non pro-rata distribution”… So every heir gets an equal share of the entire overall estate – however, not necessarily of every asset.
Property Tax Transfer: So what happens if beneficiaries go to a conventional lender, like Wells Fargo? Where there is no trust loan loan, no loans to to irrevocable trusts; no tax benefits associated with property tax transfer or parent to child transfer (commonly known as parent to child exclusion), so on and so forth.
Michael Wyatt: If there is a family that goes to a conventional, pricey lender like Wells Fargo for instance – they will always require adult children, beneficiaries that want to sell an inherited property, to ‘go off-title’, and that always triggers present-day tax reassessment. And that spells an expensive 66.66% tax hike!
Property Tax Transfer: Yes. Going “off-title”, taking your name off the title, always shifts you into a very expensive scenario. And if you use the Commercial Loan Corp. trust loan?
Michael Wyatt: Well, if the family in question uses the Commercial Loan Corp, cLoanC.com, a company we have been using for years… the loan they provide is to a trust, and not to beneficiaries; so there is no title, and no crippling 66.66% property tax reassessment.
Property Tax Transfer: Got it. Can you give us an example, sir?
Michael Wyatt: Well, for example, there might be three siblings… beneficiaries – and a house to inherit. And this is always important to remember. If you’re one out of the three siblings that wants to keep the inherited house, you are definitely looking at a 66.66% property value tax reassessment – if you’re operating without a loan to a trust, or you’re using your own cash; or getting money from a very pricey institutional lender – typically with multiple restrictions and extremely strict terms.
Michael Wyatt can be contacted at (951) 264-6152 for question on retaining a parents low property tax base. You can reach the Commercial Loan Corporation at (877) 464-1066; or simply go to https://cloanc.com with questions on a loan to a trust, irrevocable trust, or a property in probate plus numerous other related issues.
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