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Reps Status (via wife) & Material Participation to offset W-2
Hello, Anyone has experience using REPS status via their wife or husband to offset W-2?
MY 2024 W-2 will be more than $300K and this year (2024) I married a real state agent. I have been reading a lot and educating myself on the REPS scenario for me to use the real state losses in 2024 to offset my 2024 W-2 income. I believe my wife and I pass all the tests under REPS and material participation (adding our time spend of our rental together). I understand that I can not use any prior rental looses losses to offset W-2 in 2024 ( i am using those prior year losses to offset capital gains of 3 homes i sold in this year/2024). BUT, I believe I can do a cost seg and bonus depreciation on the 3 remaining (the ones that I did not sell this year) rentals in 2024 to use those losses to offset my 2024 W-2 via REPS. Is this correct?
Questions:
1- Does the above strategy sound correct or am i am missing something? If this is right, I can save a very significant amount on taxes.
2- what is the estimate percentage of people with high W-2s that get audited my claiming REPS via their wife REPS status to offset W-2? Is it almost everyone?
3- Does anyone have an example of a time log for the material participation test?