Front-load the deductions hiding in your building.
If you own commercial or investment property, a cost segregation study can pull years of future depreciation forward — turning it into deductions you can use now, and cash you can put back to work. We identify the opportunity and coordinate a proper engineering-based study so it holds up.
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A commercial building is normally depreciated over decades — 39 years for most commercial property, 27.5 for residential rental. But a building isn’t one thing. It’s structure, plus a lot of components that wear out much faster: certain fixtures, finishes, specialized electrical and plumbing, flooring, and site improvements like paving and landscaping.
A cost segregation study is an engineering-based analysis that identifies those components and reclassifies them into much shorter depreciation categories — 5, 7, or 15 years instead of 39. The effect is to move deductions forward, front-loading them into the early years of ownership when the cash is most useful to you.
Worth a look if you’ve recently owned, built, or improved property.
- Bought a commercial or investment property
- Constructed a new building
- Completed a major renovation or expansion
- Made significant leasehold or tenant improvements
- Own property held for business or rental use
- Have owned qualifying property for several years already
That last point matters: you don’t have to catch this in the year of purchase. A study can look back at property you’ve held for years and recover the depreciation you could have been taking — without amending your prior returns.
Deductions now beat deductions later.
Improved cash flow
Larger deductions in the early years lower your current tax bill and free up cash when it’s most valuable.
A look-back catch-up
For property you’ve already owned, missed depreciation can be captured in a single year through a change in accounting method — no amended returns required.
Time value of money
A dollar of deduction today is worth more than the same dollar spread over decades. Cost segregation puts that principle to work.
We bring it to the table and manage it end to end.
Assess
We review your property and situation to confirm a study makes financial sense before you spend anything.
Study
An engineering-based study identifies and documents every component eligible for a shorter depreciation life.
Apply
The reclassification is applied correctly to your depreciation schedule, coordinated with your CPA.
Capture
You take the accelerated deductions — including any look-back catch-up — on your return.
Done right, or not at all.
The IRS expects cost segregation to be supported by a proper engineering-based study — not a back-of-the-envelope estimate. A study that can’t stand up to examination puts every deduction it produced at risk. That’s why we coordinate studies built to hold up to scrutiny and work alongside your CPA, so the acceleration is real and defensible. Same standard we bring to everything: optimize aggressively, but never past the line.
Find out what your property could be deducting.
A short call is enough to tell whether a cost segregation study makes financial sense for your property — before you commit to anything.
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