The guru uses the allure of easy success.

Just for example, if you buy a single family home to flip at $300k and your rehab budget is $70k (which isn’t a ton - very easy to hit that amount) your ARV is definitely going to need to be above $500k to make any profit/make it worth doing at all.  

It isn't easy to make things pencil, and I don't see it getting much better over the next 12 months. 

It's pretty streamlined there and easy to use.

I don't mean to make it sound super easy...

However, its downfall (and really what makes it so easy) is that it is a single-entry system. 

The state laws (do not quote me) appear to not let these companies increase rates (or its not easy) to pick up the losses.

And easy for us to fulfill 1031 exchanges now. 

Talk to your CPA to see if you would benefit.It is an easy to determine if you should get it done.Tax reduction from Cost Segregation Study > Cost of Cost Segregation study = get it doneTax reduction from cost segregation study < Cost of Cost Segregation Study = don't do it

I've been religious about this because I know how easy it is to lose track of what you're spending when it's all going into and out of a single pot.