It also came with a garage that already had a great tenant as a bonus income.

This house has a bonus room added without permit by the previous owner.

Bonus Also you can look at recently sold homes on Zillow contact the agent and see if they know any contractors in your area !

There are a lot of thing you're missing, and things you are including that don't matter or I would use as bonuses. 

I sometimes run into situations where a client expects a future capital gain, inheritance, a bonus, etc. in the future year, or years, where they know the future tax rate will be higher than the current year.

Although Austin has historically seen market leading appreciation rates, I am not banking on that, but will be a nice bonus.  

Instead of Section 179, you may be better off with 100% Bonus depreciation that does not have a ceiling.

If the reality was better than my assumption, then I got a bonus.

Plus she runs her own investor-friendly title company, which is a bonus.

@John Malone For example, the loss from cost segregation and bonus deprecation and use that to offset both rental income from Airbnb (via the s elected LLC) and W2 income.