Tax & Structure
Selling: timing, costs and the tax bill
The exit is where a large share of the return is realised, and where the costs are most often underestimated.
Tax & Structure
Depreciation, entities, exchanges and record-keeping.
Tax & Structure
Bookkeeping systems that survive an audit and a decade
The administrative work nobody enjoys, done properly once, saves money at tax time and prevents the reconstruction nobody has time for.
Tax & Structure
Passive activity losses and why the tax benefit may not apply to you
The rule that determines whether your rental losses reduce this year’s tax bill or sit unused for a decade.
Tax & Structure
Estate planning for property owners
Real estate transfers badly without planning, and the costs fall on people who did not choose to be in the business.
Tax & Structure
Appealing your property tax assessment
One of the few operating expenses you can reduce by argument alone, on a deadline most owners miss.
Tax & Structure
Partnerships: the agreement is the whole thing
Most real estate partnerships fail on governance rather than on the property, and the failures are predictable enough to be drafted around.
Tax & Structure
Repairs versus improvements, and why the line matters
One is deducted this year, the other over decades, and the classification is made at the moment you write the check whether you realise it or not.
Tax & Structure
1031 exchanges: the rules that actually bind
A powerful deferral mechanism with unforgiving deadlines and a set of requirements that fail deals when they are discovered late.
Tax & Structure
Records: what to keep and for how long
Unglamorous, entirely within your control, and the difference between a straightforward sale and an expensive reconstruction twenty years later.
Tax & Structure
Should you hold property in an LLC?
The most common structural question in small-scale investing, with an answer that depends on facts people rarely state.
Tax & Structure
Depreciation, explained without the mysticism
The most significant tax feature of real estate is also the one most frequently described inaccurately by people selling something.