Depreciation Strategies: Am I maximizing depreciation deductions, and should I consider a cost segregation study to accelerate depreciation?

There's other items such as this where it may be helpful to talk to a CPA/EA for a little tax planning, especially since you'll likely get caught up in the passive activity loss limitations if taking bonus on a single rental property as I often see.It's also useful to mention that even if you do the cost seg study (I'm assuming you're doing one to be talking about this), you'll still benefit from accelerated depreciation in the form of shorter useful lives on the assets where you received bonus from.

Don’t do accelerated depreciation.  

I would not start paying off properties (if at all) until you are done buying as it will slow you way down. 

That would be for the deed, so use care not to trigger the acceleration clause with your lender.

@Will Almand A cost segregation (cost seg) study can accelerate depreciation on your properties, reducing taxable income by reclassifying components (e.g., appliances, HVAC) into shorter-lived categories.

It can accelerates process and can make numbers look very attractive (if you are open to renovations, does not need to be crazy)

Cities with slow or negative population growth you should be much more picky on cashflow. 

Few of the ones I’ve looked at or did the phone calls with were new wealth advisers club, rei accelerator, pace morby etc

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