When it comes to acquiring lucrative coastal luxury vacation rentals on the Oregon Coast the most challenging components can be permitting and timing. 

In the interest of time I limited my search to Montgomery County MD and Loudoun County VA homes that were sold in 2017 and sold again in 2022.Methodology: I pulled all the homes that fell into the scope defined above from Bright MLS.

Before 1957, there was no industry or investing arena defined as residential real estate investing.  

Bonus depreciation is just a special part of the US tax code.It allows you to take accelerated depreciation on portions of your property depending on when an asset is put into service.At the time of this writing, you can write off a huge portion (60% in 2024) of many qualified components that have a useful lifespan of 15 years or less.That means a certain percentage of things like landscaping, sidewalks, latches, appliances, fences, certain flooring, etc is depreciable in year 1.The bonus depreciation rate percentage changes yearly depending on the administration and the tax code.For years 2015 through 2017 first-year depreciation for all the items on a 15-year schedule or less was set to 50%.It was scheduled to go down to 40% in 2018 and 30% in 2019 and then 0% in 2020.But then Trump got elected, and he enacted the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.That moved the bonus depreciation percentage to 100% from 2017 to 2022.In 2023 it went down to 80% and it’s currently at 60%.Depending on who gets elected again, 100% may be back on the table.Only time will tell.We know that the US government wants to incentivize more development and ownership of RE.They want Americans to continue to build and maintain our physical world.That’s why real estate is one of the most tax-advantaged assets in the US.Depreciation and bonus depreciation for RE are very positive and will likely continue in the years ahead.

You might also consider using cost segregation to accelerate depreciation on certain components of the property, especially given the significant rehab costs.

With deals not being the best on paper currently, having defined criteria for rentals that pencil out is a must.

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We do have our buy-box clearly defined, which makes this relevant.

Identify and define where the risk is and the reward.

Define what you want done, walk that line.