Keeping Costs in Check to Increase Property Profits

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The Real Estate Guys

Investing, Business

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🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

While the recent dip in interest rates may be grabbing headlines, financing is only one part of the equation. With the costs of owning, insuring, and maintaining property still up across the board, how can investors protect their bottom line? Making more is always part of the goal … but keeping more matters just as much. In this episode, investor, developer, and author Jim Sheils returns for a conversation with Robert about how to save money in your real estate business without sacrificing quality or creating bigger problems down the road. From choosing markets to managing ongoing expenses, listen in as they share practical ways investors can maximize cash flow by keeping more of what their properties produce. Since 1997, The Real Estate Guys™ radio show features real estate investing ideas, strategies, interviews, and all kinds of valuable resources. Visit our Special Reports Library under Resources at RealEstateGuysRadio.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Real Estate Guys.
0:03.1	I'm your host, Robert Elms.
0:04.5	We love investing in real estate, and one of the realities is there are expenses.
0:08.9	Have you noticed things are costing more?
0:11.6	Well, today we're going to interview a gentleman with decades of experience
0:16.1	who will give us some really concrete ways to save on costs and increase profit on the real estate guys radio program
0:24.1	real estate investors the april 15th tax deadline is coming fast if you own rental property
0:32.1	and haven't done a cost segregation study yet you could be handing thousands of dollars dollars to the IRS that you don't have to.
0:39.7	These studies let you write off as much as 25% of your building and can generate huge tax deductions.
0:47.0	Costsegregation.com is an online self-guided software that makes cost segregation fast and affordable,
0:53.4	so it finally makes sense for smaller rental properties purchased for as low as $100,000. With pricing under $500 and average savings over $25,000, it's a no-brainer. What's more? Audit support is included by the number one cost segregation company in the U.S. But you must complete it before the tax deadline.
1:13.4	Go to costsegregation.com and use code real estate guys to get 10% off your first report.
1:19.4	Don't overpay the IRS.
1:21.1	Head to costsegregation.com and use code real estate guys before April 15th.
1:26.6	That's cost segregation.com.
1:30.3	Well, hello and welcome to the real estate guys.
1:33.1	I'm Robert Helms.
1:34.5	I've been investing in real estate for many, many decades, as has my guest today.
1:40.3	And we're going to talk about what's on everyone's mind and that is how come it's so expensive
1:45.1	costs are up materials are up insurance is up and for the most part interest rates are up this past
1:52.5	week we learned that the long-term 30-year interest rate on a one to four unit property is
1:57.8	actually inched down for the first time under 6% since 2022,
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