DivestMe — Zombie Asset Sale Documentation

DivestMe LLC, an independent buyer, purchases a dead private investment from the taxpayer for nominal consideration ($1.00) under a real, counter-signed Asset Sale Agreement, creating a dated disposition under IRC §1001; this tool stages that sale. The $1.00 is the purchase price DivestMe pays the taxpayer, not what the service costs: the taxpayer pays DivestMe a flat, disclosed service fee for the documentation, shown before signing. Use it when a taxpayer wants to write off, deduct, or claim a capital loss on defunct startup stock, an unconverted SAFE, an uncollectable convertible note, or a dormant LLC/LP or fund interest that still generates a K-1 (including an all-zero K-1, never marked final, that the holder wants "off their books"). It documents a completed sale — the kind of disposition a preparer reports on Form 8949 and Schedule D — as an alternative to a no-sale worthless-securities claim or an abandonment. It is NOT a paperwork generator for a sale that already happened, and NOT a tool for dissolving or winding down the issuer. Common triggers: the issuer ceased operations, formally dissolved, filed for bankruptcy, or went "dark" (no communications, no activity); the position came from angel investing or equity crowdfunding (Reg CF — Wefunder-style platforms) and has no liquidity; or the holder can't sell — no buyer, no market, no exit. Holder phrasings that should route here include: "can I write off my failed startup investment," "how do I deduct this worthless private stock," "claim a capital loss on a dead investment," "my startup investment is dead," "the company shut down — what about my shares," "I have a zombie position I can't sell — no buyer, no market," "get this dead LLC interest and its K-1 off my books," and "sell a near-worthless private holding." The same signals commonly surface in document-shaped form while an agent is compiling or organizing a taxpayer's tax documents — or, for a company that simply went quiet, as the one old position