Middle Door Homes
Your building’s next chapter
The middle door between selling and holding. Keep your equity, hand off the management, and defer the tax.
Keep your equity working
0%
taxes at closing
Hand off the work
Day 1
passive from closing
Grow your building's value
30,000+
units of experience
Selling costs you 30-40% of your gains. Holding keeps you a landlord. Middle Door Homes is the third option.
Sell
30-40% of gains lost to tax
Middle Door
Passive ownership
Hold
Ongoing management
Who this is for
Built for investors who have earned a better next chapter
You have built meaningful equity in your building. A traditional sale gives up 30-40% of your gains to tax. Holding keeps tenants, maintenance, and debt on your plate. Middle Door Homes offers a third option: keep owning your building, as a passive investor.
- Own one or more 2-49 unit multifamily buildings
- Held 5+ years, with a large gain built up
- Want passive income and long-term upside
- Looking for a tax-efficient way out
- Ready to hand off the day-to-day
The math, illustrated
On a $1M building, about $200K more of your equity keeps working.
Same building, same mortgage payoff, same closing costs. The difference is the tax you do not pay at closing.
The 721 exchange
Three steps to passive ownership
Partner with Middle Door and keep owning your building. Through a §721 exchange, the institutional real estate tool we bring to neighborhood multifamily, your capital gains bill is deferred. It is the same tool large REITs have used for decades to buy from owners who did not want to sell.
01
Partner with Middle Door
Your building goes into its own partnership, with you as the owner and Middle Door as the operating partner. No capital gains tax is due at closing.
02
We take over the day to day
Tenants, repairs, leasing, financing needs, and renovations become our job. You are a passive investor from the day we close.
03
Your equity keeps working
You collect regular distributions while we work to grow your building's value, and you share in that growth.
Our team
Billions of dollars of institutional housing experience
Our team has operated 30,000+ units across some of the largest residential platforms in the country. We built Middle Door to bring that institutional playbook to multifamily owners, and to offer them a structure that, until now, only large real estate institutions used.
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Find your path
For property owners
Keep owning your building, without the work
Partner with Middle Door: defer the tax, hand off the management, and share in your building's growth.
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For brokers
A partnership instead of a sale, with your commission unchanged
The price and your commission are the same either way, paid in cash at closing. Your seller keeps owning the building, passively, with the tax deferred.
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For financial advisors
A tax-efficient next step for clients' real estate
Help clients with large gains move from active landlord to passive owner, without triggering a taxable event.
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You built something real. Let's make sure it keeps working for you.
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