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Posted Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Welcome to the Real Estate Investment Hub designed for rental property owners where WCG CPAs & Advisors supports you as your real estate CPA. Very few tax professionals and CPA firms specialize in real estate to provide you solid consultation, tax planning including tax reduction strategies, and tax return preparation. We are experts in-

  • Entity Arrangements, Real Estate Holding Companies, Deal Structures
  • Startup Expenses, Launching Your Real Estate Venture, Acquisition Costs
  • Asset Setup On Your Tax Returns, Cost Segregation Studies
  • Converting Your Primary Home Into a Rental
  • Passive Activity Loss Limits
  • Material Participation Rules, What Time Counts (and What Doesn’t)
  • Real Estate Professional Status (REPS)
  • Short-Term Rental (STR) Loophole
  • Vacation Home Rules, Bolton Method
  • State Problems With Your Rental
  • Travel, Meal, Automobile and Home Office Deductions
  • Common Rental Property Deductions, Allocation of General Expenses Across Multiple Rentals
  • Rental Property Repairs Safe Harbors, Improvements
  • Accelerated Depreciation, Section 179 Expensing, Partial Asset Disposition
  • 1031 Like-Kind Exchange, 721 Exchange
  • Selling Your Rental Property, Buying Out Your Partner

Rental Property Experts

We have written several different articles about various real estate investment considerations including cost segregation, fix and flips, short-term rental loophole, 1031 exchanges, among other things. As such we have created the real estate investment hub which is a collection of snippets from other content on our website.

Rental Property Tax Return Preparation

Click on the buttons below to review our rental property tax returns procedures and general fees. A checklist and our online submit form for compiling your business activities is included.

Additional Investment Considerations

The following buttons highlight some additional real estate investment and rental property considerations. Most of these are excerpts from our second book, I Just Got A Rental, What Do I Do?, which you can read more about below.

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I Just Got A Rental, What Do I Do?

I just got a rental, what do I do? Purchasing a rental property is certainly challenging, but operating one to build wealth and find tax efficiency is equally challenging. This is our second book. Our first book, Taxpayer’s Comprehensive Guide to LLCs and S Corps, was first published in 2014 and was well-received by small business owners and tax professionals, so we thought a book on rental properties and real estate investments would be equally helpful. So, here we are with our first iteration, or the 2024-2025 edition. We plan to update annually.

Our rental property book starts with entity structures and moves into asset management such as acquisition, cost segregation, rental safe harbors, repairs versus improvements, accelerated depreciation, partial asset disposition, and 1031 like-kind exchange. From there we discuss various rental considerations like passive activity losses, short-term rental loophole, real estate professional status, and material participation including what time counts, and what time doesn’t count.

Finally, the good stuff! Rental property tax deductions such as travel, meals, automobiles, interest tracing, home office and common expenses. Fun!

It is available in paperback for $19.95 from Amazon and as an eBook for Kindle for 15.95. Our book is also available for purchase as a PDF from ClickBank for $12.95. This book is written with the general rental property in mind. Too many resources tell you the general rule but don’t bother to back it up with Internal Revenue Code, Treasury Regulations and Tax Court cases. Our book lays it all out, explains the madness, adds some humor and various conundrums.

Enjoy! And please send us all comments, hang-ups and static. This book is as much yours as it is ours, except the tiny royalty part- that’s ours. Stop by and we’ll buy you a beer with the pennies.

How To Purchase

If you buy our 320-page book and think that we didn’t help you understand rental property tax laws, let us know. We never want you to feel like you wasted your money. If you are ready to add some insightful reading into your day, click on one of the preferred formats. Amazon is processed by Amazon, and the PDF is safely processed by ClickBank who will email you the PDF as an attachment.

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$19.95 $15.95 $12.95

Talk to a Real Estate CPA

Please use the form below to tell us a little about yourself, and what you have going on with your investments and wealth-building objectives. WCG CPAs & Advisors are real estate CPAs, tax strategists and rental property consultants, and we look forward to talking to you!

We typically schedule a 20-minute complimentary quick chat with one of our Partners or Senior Tax Professionals to determine if we are a good fit for each other, and how an engagement with our team looks. Tax returns only? Business advisory? Tax prep, and more importantly tax strategy and planning?

Should we need to schedule an additional consultation, our fee is $250 for 40 minutes. Fun! If we decide to press forward with a Business Advisory or Tax Patrol Services engagement, we will credit the consultation fee towards those services.

Appointments are typically held through Microsoft Teams and are scheduled on weekdays during the work day. Yes, we can easily accommodate nights and weekends, but those are reluctantly agreed to after some eye-rolling and complaining. Additionally, our schedules are more compressed during tax season (who would have thought, right?).

Shockingly we will return all appointment requests via email with 24-36 hours weather-permitting, or perhaps a phone call (if the moment strikes us). No black holes here! In a hurry, please call us at 719-387-9800 or use our chat service in the lower right corner or the button below.

Client Reviews and Expectations

When doing business, either online or face-to-face, you want peace of mind that things will go smoothly. Furthermore, if things don’t go as planned, then you want comfort in knowing they will be taken care of. WCG takes customer service and satisfaction very seriously.

WCG CPAs & Advisors is a full service tax preparation, accounting, and small business and real estate consultation firm, and we look forward to working with you!