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Firm Genesis

Engineered1031 was created by Julio Gonzalez, founder of Engineered Tax Services, one of the nation’s largest tax advisory firms to provide an end to end solution designed to help their network of accounting firms and real estate specialists access tax-advantaged solutions and investment opportunities.

Active Alliances

Accountants
Real Estate Sponsors
Real Estate Brokers
Registered Investment Advisors
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Mission Statement

Engineered1031's mission is to educate visitors on the benefits, rules, and processes inherent in IRS Section 1031 and Opportunity Zones. By utilizing technology and aligning expertise at key points in the 1031 exchange timeline, Engineered1031 can efficiently facilitate 1031 exchanges on behalf of clients and their key advisors. Our product agnostic approach offers investors a multitude of options from Triple Net Lease properties to a wide selection of Delaware Statutory Trusts, which represent fractional interests in real estate providing diversification opportunities. Our core deliverable is a technology solution built on team continuity and expert advice, designed to reduce friction points in the process from property listing and QI initiation to closing on 1031 replacement property. The flexibility of our solution builds in optionality around the specific client situation and enables our professionals to cater the solution to the client needs.

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Strategic Partnerships

Engineered1031 works with partner firms from the following disciplines. Our focus on tax advantaged alternatives, specifically 1031 exchanges and opportunity zone qualifying investments, creates synergistic opportunities and points of collaboration with a large variety of firms.

Accounting Firms and Legal Professionals - We work in a collaborative role with accounting firms and legal professionals. Our focus on collaboration creates an environment where 3rd party advisors aren't disintermediated but rather build on their value proposition.
Real Estate Sponsors - If you are a real estate sponsor with the ability to provide 1031 eligible product or solutions and are interested in exploring the structuring or syndication of currently held properties, please contact us.
Real Estate Brokers - We work with real estate brokers nationwide to ensure clients have access to a diverse range of replacement property alternatives.
Registered Investment Advisors - Are you interested in providing 1031 solutions to your clients or have a special client need that falls outside your scope? Please contact us to see if our team can be helpful.

Our Team Approach

  • Getting Started
    Set up Your Exchange

    1) Set up your exchange - Tom Bottenberg with FYNTEX and Bethany Williams will discuss your exchange logistics.

  • Trust Account Set Up
    Set up a Fyntex 1031 Trust Account

    2) Set up your 1031 account - Tom Bottenberg and the FYNTEX team can create your 1031 documents and set up your 1031 trust account. This needs to be set up and verified prior to the closing of your relinquished property. After closing your funds are wired to your trust account and your 45/180 clock starts.

  • ID Replacement
    Identify Your repacement Propertes

    3) Identify your replacement property - Bethany Williams can walk through a variety of replacement property options including the following: Delaware Statutory Trusts, Net Lease Properties, and TIC options with a variety of real estate sponsors. Should the need arise, we also have access to a variety of Opportunity Zone Qualifying investments.

  • Close Your Exchange
    Finalize Exchange and File IRS Form 8824

    4) Close on your exchange - The exchanger most close within 180 days on replacement property that was identified within the 45 day ID period. Our entire team will monitor progress throughout the process. Once the 1031 exchange is complete, an IRS Form 8824 is filed with your tax return.

Advisory Council

Julio P. Gonzalez
Engineered1031 Advisory Council

Founder and CEO and Chairman of Engineered Tax Services, Inc. (ETS). Consistently named one of the Top 100 most influential people in Accounting by Accounting Today, Mr. Gonzalez acquired The Growth Partnership, The Rosenberg Survey and ABLE CRM in 2020 to establish the largest specialty tax and consultative firm to the CPA community nationwide.

In 2021, Mr. Gonzalez founded Rockerbox to bring the accounting industry best in class resources in employment retention credits and work opportunity training credits. Mr. Gonzalez also acquired Inside Public Accounting at the end of 2021 to strengthen the company’s abilities to be a resource to the accounting community.

Mr. Gonzalez is truly the Nation’s forefather of specialty tax services and he and his companies have most recently been recognized for their assistance in preserving jobs in the United States. Mr. Gonzalez’ focus was to bring specialized engineering tax studies to mainstream America, which historically had only been available to Fortune 500 and public companies through the National Accounting Firms. These tax services are critical to creating, preserving and maintaining U.S. based jobs.

Our Team

Bethany Williams
Relationship Coordinator

Bethany Williams is the Managing Director of Engineered1031, LLC, a commercial real estate agent and dedicated M&A business developer with over 20 years’ experience leading business growth efforts for organizations.

She has served in key leadership roles for some of the nation’s leading companies; PWC, Perot Systems and General Electric. She holds her real estate license for commercial real estate in Texas at OGH Real Estate Brokerage. She is passionate about helping individuals solve their 1031 businesses needs.

Williams graduated from National University in San Diego, California, with a BBA. She serves on the Board of Directors for Blueprint Networx, and was named one of the top 25 Women to Watch by the Dallas Business Journal. Named one of the Top 100 Branding Experts to Follow on Twitter several years running, she speaks at conferences around the world on growth and brand development.

Contact Bethany by phone: (469) 534-2350

Tom Bottenberg
1031 Exchange Advisor

Mr. Bottenberg is a Principal at Fyntex, Inc, one of the country's leading 1031 exchange facilitators and processors.

Prior to being a Co-Founder at Fyntex, Mr. Bottenberg successfully completed more than 40,000 exchanges and led numerous firms in the tax-deferred exchange space since 1990.

Since joining Fyntex, Mr. Bottenberg has assisted with the development and deployment of the nation's first modern, end to end tax-deferred exchange processing platform which provides unprecedented data and funds security, as well as 24/7 transactional transparency to Exchangers and their advisors.

Contact Tom at [email protected]