Real Estate
Real estate tax questions look completely different depending on whether you're holding property, developing it, selling it, or hosting it — generic advice doesn't distinguish between them.
Real estate isn't one tax problem, it's several. A landlord's depreciation questions aren't a developer's dealer-classification questions, which aren't an agent's commission-timing questions, which aren't a short-term rental host's material-participation questions. Most firms treat all of it as one generic category. We built separate expertise for each part of the real estate lifecycle, under one roof.
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Specialties within Real Estate
Each of these has its own dedicated page with the specific deductions, pain points, and strategies that apply.
Property Management & Real Estate Investors
Rental income, depreciation, repairs vs. improvements — property tax rules are full of small calls that are easy to get backwards, and most landlords don't find out until it's too late to fix.
Short-Term Rental (Airbnb & VRBO) Hosts
Short-term rentals play by a different set of tax rules than long-term rentals, and missing that distinction is one of the most common — and most expensive — mistakes an Airbnb or VRBO host can make.
Real Estate Agents & Brokers
Commission income lands whenever it lands, and that irregular 1099 timing makes quarterly tax planning both more important and easier to get wrong.
Real Estate Developers & Builders
Dealer vs. investor classification, cost capitalization rules, multi-year project timelines — development is genuinely the trickiest corner of real estate tax, and it's easy to get the expensive parts wrong.
Frequently asked questions
I do more than one of these — can you handle that?+
Yes. A lot of our real estate clients are, for example, both a property manager and an occasional developer, or an agent who also holds rental property. That overlap is exactly why we built real estate as one coordinated practice instead of siloed niches.
More general questions about pricing, process, and security? See the full FAQ.
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