Cost Segregation Leverages, Bonus Depreciation, and Tax Benefits from Depreciation

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Best Ever CRE

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 21 July 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Chris Pierce talks to Sean Graham as he shares his inspiring journey from CPA to real estate investor, unveiling how he uncovered the powerful tax advantages hidden in property components. You'll learn the fundamentals of depreciation: how the IRS assigns different lifespans to building elements, and how to leverage that knowledge to boost your deductions. Discover how the cost segregation engineering process breaks down your property into shorter-lived parts, creating opportunities for accelerated depreciation, sometimes recategorizing up to 30% of your basis into five and 15-year categories. Sean Graham, CPA Maven Cost Segregation Tax Advisors Based in: Detroit Metropolitan Area Where to find them: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-graham-cpa/ mavencostseg.com Chris Pierce Account Executive of Maven Cost Segregation Tax Advisors Based in: Salida, Colorado Where to find them: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pierce-christopher/ Book your free demo today at bill.com/bestever and get a $100 Amazon gift card. Visit https://malabarhillcapital.com/ for more info. Podcast production done by⁠ ⁠Outlier Audio⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. I am Chris. We are taking over the best ever CRE show this week. I'm Chris with
0:08.2	Maven Cost Segregation. This is Sean Graham, the owner of Maven Cost Degregation. And today,
0:13.8	we're going to be diving deep on how depreciation can slash your tax bill through your real estate. So how's it going, Sean?
0:23.1	Good, man. Super excited to do this. I'm ready to take over to the podcast and hopefully
0:27.3	show the guests. The listeners here, basically, you know, the magic of depreciation and
0:32.6	other side of real estate. It's not just about the cash flow and the equity, but it's also about the tax
0:38.6	savings and opportunity there. So yeah, thanks for setting this up. Yeah, of course. And you touch
0:45.3	on something there, which I always like to share with, you know, the clients that we work with, too,
0:50.2	that the depreciation that we can accelerate, it's just like an extra lever of the levers you can pull in real estate, right?
0:56.6	You get the depreciation, the leverage and all of that.
1:00.7	And how we can accelerate everything just like adds to that.
1:05.6	Yeah, for sure.
1:06.2	I think everybody's, you know, most people are focused on cash flow.
1:09.3	They're focused on building equity,
1:11.3	natural appreciation, the forced appreciation, all the expenses that you can write off. But the tax
1:18.1	benefits of owning real estate and being in real estate can be so significant. And not just from a
1:24.1	real estate perspective, but they can also help you offset all kinds of taxable
1:27.9	incomes to the point where you can have a tax burden of nothing, right?
1:32.9	It's huge, huge for you.
1:34.9	So yeah, I think this is a good episode for us to kind of like just dive in, explain,
1:39.4	kind of give the foundation of the tax rules and the depreciation rules, how it works.
1:45.2	And hopefully the listeners can get something out of it.
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