How Cost Segregation Can Turn Your Rental into a Cash Cow

Front loading your depreciation deductions to take them sooner

Cost segregation breaks your real property into its components, some of which you can depreciate much faster than the typical 27.5 years for a residential rental or 39 years for nonresidential real estate.

When you buy real property, you typically break it into two assets for depreciation purposes:

• land, which is non-depreciable; and

• building (residential is 27.5-year property; nonresidential is 39-year property).

With a cost segregation study, you make your property much more than a building on land. Here’s what’s possible with a cost segregation study: