Jacob Lawlor

Jacob Lawlor is Regional Branch Manager for First Team Real Estate's Mission Viejo and San Clemente offices in Southern Orange County. In addition to leading both offices, he trains agents company-wide and works one-on-one with agents on business planning, market knowledge, skill development, and practical implementation.

On OrangeCounty1031.com, Jacob works with Orange County property owners who are trying to answer a different question: is this rental still the right place for my money and my time?

His approach is deliberately unhurried. Most of the owners he speaks with have held a property for a long time, have substantial equity in it, and have never had anyone lay out the options side-by-side without a recommendation attached. That's the conversation he tries to provide.

Jacob is a licensed real estate professional, not a CPA, attorney or tax advisor. He doesn't give tax advice, and he'll say so plainly. What he does is handle the real estate side well: valuation, market context, coordinating with a qualified intermediary when an exchange is under consideration, and finding replacement property inside deadlines that don't forgive delay.

If the right answer for you is to keep the property exactly as it is, he'd rather you reach that conclusion with good information than be talked out of it.

Learn more about Jacob's leadership and agent-development work·View Jacob's official First Team profile