REAL ESTATE
While Trump’s real estate holdings include Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan and Mar-a-Lago golf resort in Palm Beach, Fla., Branstad’s commercial real estate is in places such as Lake Mills, a northern Iowa town of 2,000 where Branstad operated a law office and served as state representative before becoming lieutenant governor in 1979, and Joice, near Lake Mills.

Branstad also owns parcels in Bode, Dunlap, Exira, Guttenberg, Lake Park, LeClaire, Lohrville, Manly, North English, Olin, Packwood, Seymour and Sibley, all sites of those towns’ post offices. The total worth of this land or property is $960,015 to $2.35 million, the report states.

Also listed among Branstad’s assets is an annual salary of $150,000. Branstad’s official salary as governor was $130,000 in fiscal 2016, but it’s possible he was including travel and subsistence — an additional $14,282 last year. He doesn’t give the value of his state of Iowa defined benefit plan, but said it yields about $2,900 per month in retirement payments.

For liabilities, Branstad listed two mortgages, one for a personal residence valued at $100,001 to $250,000 and one for a rental property valued at $50,001 to $100,000.

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