Cost Segregation for Mobile Home Parks: Almost Everything Is a Land Improvement
Mobile home parks are the strangest cost segregation asset class in real estate, and the strangeness works entirely in the owner's favor.
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Cost Segregation for Gas Stations and Convenience Stores: A 15-Year Building
Gas stations occupy a unique position in the depreciation rules. Under IRC Sec.
Cost Segregation for Gyms and Fitness Centers: Equipment, Flooring, and Locker Rooms
Fitness facilities reclassify heavily, typically 30% to 45% of depreciable basis, and full service clubs with aquatics push higher.
Cost Segregation for Dental Offices: Operatories, Plumbing, and the Build-Out
Dental build-outs reclassify at rates that surprise most practice owners, commonly 35% to 50% of construction cost.
Cost Segregation for Assisted Living and Senior Housing: The 27.5 vs 39 Year Question
Senior housing produces strong cost segregation results, commonly 25% to 35% of depreciable basis, because these buildings are dense with fixtures.
Cost Segregation on a 50-Unit Apartment Complex: Amenities Change the Math
At 50 units, clubhouse, pool, and amenity assets push reclassification to 28 to 33 percent. Full component breakdown and a $6.8M worked example.
Cost Segregation on a 5-Unit Multifamily Property: Is It Worth the Study Fee?
A 5-unit building typically reclassifies 22 to 28 percent of basis. Component breakdown, breakeven math, and when a small multifamily study pays for itself.
Cost Segregation on 200+ Unit Multifamily: Portfolio-Level Strategy
On 200+ unit assets the study is table stakes. What changes is timing, partial dispositions, and coordinating studies across a portfolio of acquisitions.
Cost Segregation on a 20-Unit Apartment Building: What the Study Finds
A 20-unit building reclassifies 24 to 30 percent of basis. Where the value sits, how common area amenities change the number, and a full worked example.
Cost Segregation on a 100-Unit Apartment Community: Institutional-Scale Results
At 100 units, reclassification runs 28 to 34 percent and study quality drives seven-figure differences. Component detail and a $14M worked example.
Charging Order Protection: Why Some States Protect LLC Owners and Others Do Not
Most investors understand that an LLC protects personal assets from business claims.
Cash-Out Refinance on a Rental Property: What Is and Is Not Taxable
Do you owe tax on a rental-property cash-out refinance? Learn the income, interest-tracing, basis, points, and eventual-sale rules before closing.
Can My Spouse Qualify for Real Estate Professional Status?
Can one spouse qualify for REPS? Separate the 750-hour and more-than-half tests from material participation, optional grouping and rental-loss limits.
Can I Take Bonus Depreciation on a Used Property?
Yes. Used property has qualified for bonus depreciation since 2017 if it is new to you. The acquisition rules, related party traps, and 2026 rates.
BRRRR Method Tax Strategy: What the Refinance Actually Does to Your Return
The BRRRR method, buy, rehab, rent, refinance, repeat, is a financing strategy, not a tax strategy.
Real Estate Professional Status: Does It Still Work in 2026?
Real estate professional status (REPS) under IRC Sec. 469(c)(7) remains one of the most powerful classifications available to real estate investors.
How Far Back Can I Amend a Tax Return?
Understand the general three-year or two-year federal refund deadline, refund limits and records needed before amending. Review AE’s amendment FAQ.
How Does Syndication K-1 Income Affect My Taxes?
Understand how Schedule K-1 income from real estate syndications is taxed, including passive loss treatment, UBIT, depreciation, and state filing requirements.
Cost Segregation for Small Apartment Buildings
Review cost Segregation for Small Apartment Buildings. Practical decisions, records and examples. Book a call with AE Tax Advisors.
Cost Segregation for Single-Family Rental Portfolios: Making It Work Across Many Houses
How single-family rental investors run cost segregation across a portfolio, including per-property thresholds, sampling, and de minimis safe harbor coordination.
Cost Segregation for Self-Storage Facilities: Where 35 Percent of Basis Is Not the Building
Self-storage facilities carry unusually heavy land improvements and modular components. Full breakdown of reclassification percentages and IRC treatment.
Cost Segregation for Restaurants: Kitchen Equipment, QIP, and the Leasehold Question
How restaurant owners accelerate depreciation on kitchen equipment, qualified improvement property, and buildouts, whether they own or lease the space.
Cost Segregation for Mid-Size Multifamily (20 to 100 Units): What Changes at Scale
Component breakdowns, amenity treatment, and partnership allocation issues for cost segregation studies on 20 to 100 unit apartment complexes.
Cost Segregation for Medical Office Buildings: Specialized Systems and Tenant Improvements
Medical office buildings carry specialized plumbing, gas, and electrical that reclassifies. Component breakdown and treatment of physician-owned real estate.
Cost Segregation for Large Multifamily (100+ Units): Institutional-Grade Studies
What changes in cost segregation studies on 100+ unit apartment properties: sampling methodology, structured parking, and partial disposition elections.
Hotel Cost Segregation: Plan for Renovations and the Eventual Sale
Plan beyond the first-year hotel deduction: track renovations, reconcile assets and model recapture and exchange questions with AE Tax Advisors.
Cost Segregation for Car Washes: The Highest Reclassification Percentage in Commercial Real Estate
Car washes routinely reclassify 45 to 60 percent of depreciable basis. Breakdown of tunnel equipment, water reclamation, and site improvement treatment.
How to Finance Equipment With 10% Down and Still Get the Full Tax Deduction
The most common misconception in equipment tax planning is that the deduction tracks the money you spent. It does not.
How Does a 1031 Exchange Work for Rental Properties?
See how a 1031 exchange works for rental property and condos, including personal-use limits, HOA items, deadlines, basis, boot, and filing steps.
How Do S-Corp Distributions Work and Are They Taxed?
See when S-corp distributions are taxable, why stock basis matters, and how owner distributions differ from wages and shareholder loan repayments.
Equipment Depreciation Schedules: MACRS Recovery Periods by Asset Type
A reference table of MACRS recovery periods for construction, medical, restaurant, trucking, manufacturing, and technology assets, plus the conventions and what...
Cost Segregation for Airbnb Properties: Year 1 Depreciation Guide
When you purchase an Airbnb or short-term rental property, the IRS requires you to depreciate the building over either 27.5 years (residential rental.
The STR Loophole Explained: How the 7-Day Rule Saves Thousands
The passive activity loss rules under IRC Sec. 469 are one of the biggest obstacles real estate investors face when trying to use rental losses to reduce...
How to Time Equipment Purchases for Maximum Tax Benefit
The placed-in-service rule, the mid-quarter convention, and the Q4 calendar that actually works.
How Are Airbnb and VRBO Rental Income Taxed?
Understand how Airbnb and VRBO rental income is taxed at the federal level, including Schedule E vs Schedule C reporting, self-employment tax, and deductions.
Will a cost segregation study raise my audit risk, and what should I require before filing?
Before ordering a cost segregation study, review audit risk, the IRS's quality criteria, records to request, and return-filing checks. Book a study review.