Best way to WIN in RE

[Melanie Baldridge]

Imagine making millions of dollars over the course of your career and then having to pay 30-50% every year to uncle sam instead of compounding that cash over time.

This is exactly what real estate professionals have learned to mitigate.

To reduce their taxable income, they just buy a building every year, do a cost seg, and use depreciation to reduce their tax liability dramatically.

Their personal wealth snowball grows much larger and much faster than their W2 counterparts who give most of their money back to the government each year.

Following this strategy as a real estate professional is one of best ways to end up with a much larger net worth at the end of your career.

[Rohullah Sharifi]

However, upon the sale of the property, the previously claimed depreciation reduces the adjusted basis, resulting in depreciation recapture that may increase the taxpayer’s taxable gain. In contrast, if the property is passed to heirs, the heirs generally receive a step-up in basis to the property’s fair market value at the date of death, effectively eliminating prior depreciation and minimizing potential recapture.