UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549


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FORM 8-K


CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT

TO SECTION 13 OR 15 (d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934


Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): December 10, 2013



REAL ESTATE ASSOCIATES LIMITED

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)



California

0-09262

95-3187912

(State or Other Jurisdiction of

(Commission File Number)

(I.R.S. Employer

Incorporation)

 

Identification No.)

 

 

 

 

P.O. Box 91274

Los Angeles, California 90009

 

(Address of Principal Executive Offices, including zip code)

 

 


Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code:  (720) 387-8135


Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

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Item 2.01

Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets


Real Estate Associates Limited (the Registrant”) is the general partner and the 99% limited partner of Bethel Towers Dividend Housing Association, a Michigan limited partnership (the “Partnership”).

As previously disclosed, on August 14, 2012, the Partnership entered into a purchase and sale contract to sell its investment property to a third party.  

As previously disclosed on July 25, 2013, the Partnership entered into an amendment to its purchase and sale contract, the terms of which, among other things, extended the closing date for the sale of the Partnership’s investment property to December 13, 2013.  

On December 10, 2013, the Partnership closed the sale of its investment property pursuant to its purchase and sale contract.  

As a result of the sale of the Partnership’s investment property, the Registrant expects to receive a distribution of approximately $1,265,000 from the Partnership.  The Registrant’s investment in the Partnership was zero as of December 10, 2012, the date on which the Registrant began consolidating its investment in the Partnership in the Registrant’s financial statements.





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SIGNATURE


Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.




 

REAL ESTATE ASSOCIATES LIMITED             

 

 

 

 

 

By:

National Partnership Investments, LLC

Corporate General Partner


By:  /s/ Joseph Dryden                      

 

        Joseph Dryden

 

        Director of Reporting



     DATED:  December 13, 2013