The tax advantages of buying/holding gas stations are pretty great.Many of the components of gas stations including pumps, tanks, external parking areas, and other equipment are classified as either 5 or 15 year property so you can bonus depreciate a lot of it (minus the land value) and get significant deductions in year 1.With the current bonus depreciation rate at 100%, a $1 million gas station acquisition could still lead to $200K+ in year 1 deductions depending on the specifics of your deal.

I’ve been digging into the Bryan/College Station market (home to Texas A&M) and wanted to share some fresh numbers from August 2025:Median price: $356,750 (up 2.2% YoY)Active listings: 465 (up 12.6% YoY)Closed sales: 135 (down 0.7% YoY)Days on market: About 93 total (list to close)Months of inventory: 3.9 (slightly up from 3.6 last year)Most of the activity is happening in the $200K–$399K range (55%+ of sales), and only about 1.5% of sales were $1M+.

I am also in military stationed in Chicago til late 2026.

The call sounded very real, with police station background noise and none of the usual giveaways like clumsy language.

We're in North Dakota due to my wife being stationed up in Minot (Bismarck was closest option for post).

My first station was in San Antonio and that's where I first started my investment journey!

So by listing all of those things, the site makes it look like you have all of them, even though some have the X by them meaning that you don't have them.I wouldn't mention the police station unless someone asks.And yes, I do think you should put one photo of the patio view, especially since it looks pretty clean even though it's not scenic, and there are no neighbors staring at the guests so it's fairly private, which is a good thing.  

My advise has been to buy a property at each duty station, and when reassigned, keep that property as a rental.

local here in Bryan/College Station and active in both real estate and property management.

But, if a cost-seg study is done on the old property, you can manage Sec. 1245 recapture tax by doing a study on the new property to confirm it has as much or more Sec. 1245 property.You cannot swap a fully depreciated gas station for a raw piece of land and avoid recapture - you must replace all the 1245 and 1250 property.3) OZ - Sure you can defer your capital gains for a few years into an OZ fund, but the magic of OZ investments is the ability to achieve tax-exempt growth after a 10-year holding period.