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12 November 2024 | 4 replies
Quote from @Joshua Wei: Can anyone recommend a company in or around Birmingham, Alabama that performs cost segregation studies for single-family homes?
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18 November 2024 | 35 replies
I no longer offer them, We were going to initially get 11 sets, we soon discovered it wasn’t worth it.
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12 November 2024 | 2 replies
Facebook groups can be a valuable resource for discovering properties.
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13 November 2024 | 2 replies
Imagine you bought a property for $2M.The land (excluding any structures) is valued at $400K.Since land is not depreciable in the eyes of the IRS, we subtract the land value from your purchase price to get your depreciable basis.Your depreciable basis is simply where a cost seg engineer starts from when allocating your eligible assets into either 5, 7, or 15 year property.In the scenario above, your starting basis would be $1.6M since your basis = your purchase price - the land value.Having an accurate land value is essential to getting your depreciation/bonus depreciation calculations right.This is the starting point for any cost seg study that you do.
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20 November 2024 | 45 replies
But then again, I am not a lender so I don't know nor have I studied that idea to know for sure.
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12 November 2024 | 2 replies
They presented a juicy case study to illustrate the benefit of depreciation recapture shifting from cost-segregated personal property to real property.
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15 November 2024 | 16 replies
Studies show that over 50 percent of travelers are bringing pets.
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17 November 2024 | 30 replies
However, you can choose to do a Cost Segregation Study and instead of depreciating the property as a whole you depreciate each piece of the property some of which have a shorter lifespan and that allows you LARGER deductions sooner!
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15 November 2024 | 13 replies
Expediting the depreciation with a cost segregation study can add a healthy amount of cash flow in the first year to 5 years when you need it most.
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15 November 2024 | 12 replies
Study the market.