Category · 10 articles
Property Types
How reclassification percentages and component lists differ across offices, warehouses, restaurants, rentals and everything between.
Cost segregation on apartment buildings: why unit count is the whole story
The short-life package repeats in every unit. That is why multifamily scales better than anything else.
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Short-term rentals: the seven-day rule, stated carefully
It is the most misunderstood provision in real estate tax, and getting it wrong is expensive.
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Restaurants reclassify better than any other property type. Here is why
Between the kitchen, the finish package and the drive-through, a quarter to two-fifths of basis moves.
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Self-storage: the simplest building with some of the best numbers
Almost everything you paid for sits outside the building envelope.
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Medical and dental practices: the densest fit-out in commercial real estate
Operatory infrastructure exists to serve equipment, not the building. That is the whole argument.
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Hotels: three property types stacked into one building
A guest-room block, a food and beverage operation and an amenity floor. All three reclassify well.
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Warehouses: the property type everyone assumes will not work
Then you price the truck court, and it works.
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Single-family rentals: when one house is worth studying
The threshold moved when bonus depreciation became permanent. Here is where it sits.
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Retail centers: mostly parking, and parking is 15-year property
The simplest strong case in commercial cost segregation.
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Office buildings: the cabling is worth more than you think
Two categories consistently surprise office owners, and one of them is invisible.
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