Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, the show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills,

insight and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now while building a plan

for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My guest today is Leslie Popus.

Leslie is the author of a book called Cashing In Tax Free, Your Ultimate Guide to a tax-free

retirement using 1031 exchanges and DSTs Delaware

Statutory Trusts. I'm not sure if I ever ever has ever seen a book title that

includes nice good sales language like your ultimate guide to a tax-free retirement

and also includes CPA speak like 1031 exchanges in Delaware statutory trusts.

Yeah this is this is the world in which I balance myself.

Being able to talk financial and be able to speak to people, those two things.

There are two skill sets that don't often go together. So tell us a little bit about your

background and the concept of this book that you've written? Yeah, my background.

I've had three careers at my tender age of 58,

and the first was in banking in New York City.

The second was as a consultant, and a third in real estate,

which I've been doing for the last 15 years or so.

And what I have fashioned for myself is a career where I help investors,

high net worth investors,

called accredited investors, basically

purchase replacement property

when they sell an investment property and I helped them avoid paying taxes in the process on the sale.

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