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PRACTICAL MATERIAL FOR REAL ESTATE TAX DECISIONS.
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Real Estate Tax Readiness Assessment
Twenty-four questions in four sections that show where your facts, documents, and decision points are prepared, incomplete, or unknown before the next transaction: ownership and entity structure, partnership reporting and capital accounts, transactions and exchanges, and leases and fixed assets. Set aside 15 to 20 minutes.
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Guides
Guides and perspective
§1031 Exchanges
Is a 1031 Exchange Right for Your Sale?
What an exchange defers, what it doesn’t, and the deadlines that decide it.
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Transactions & Gain Analysis
What Drives the Tax on a Real Estate Sale
Gain, basis, recapture, and the decisions that move the number before you list.
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Depreciation & Cost Segregation
When Cost Segregation Pays, and When It Doesn’t
How to tell whether a study is worth buying, and what it costs you when you sell.
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Partnerships & Waterfalls
Why Your K-1s Don’t Match Your Waterfall
When cash follows one set of rules and taxable income follows another.
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Lease Structuring
What to Watch For in a Long-Term Lease
Improvements, allowances, uneven rent and Section 467, and the terms that change who owes tax and when.
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Entity & Cross-Border Structuring
How You Hold Real Estate Decides How It’s Taxed
Entity choice going in, while you own, and on the way out.
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California Property Tax
Restructuring California Real Estate Without Triggering Reassessment
How Proposition 13, entity transfers, and long leases can reset assessed value, and what to check before you restructure.
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Market Perspective
Cheap Money Always Leaves: What a Century of Cycles Teaches Real Estate Owners
From 1929 to today’s mix of war, oil, AI spending, and layered leverage, the decisions that held up were made as if cheap money wouldn’t last.
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