United States Real Estate Investor®
Sep 10, 2026 · 37 min · 12 segments
Yonah Weiss reveals how cost segregation, accelerated depreciation, smarter tax planning, opportunity zones, professional relationships, continuous learning, and intentional networking can help…
Yonah WeissGuestMattiasHost
Well, we'll take a step back because we have to understand what depreciation is first.
And some of them may know what that is, but really it's just a borrowed term when it comes to real estate.
It's the name of a tax deduction the IRS gives you when you buy a property besides for your primary residence.
So it can be residential, commercial, it can be a single family, multifamily, or like you said, a mobile home park, office, you name it.
you're able to take this deduction called depreciation and it's based solely on you as the buyer so based on your purchase price and when you bought it you get to start what we call depreciating it and it's over a 27 and a half year uh time period basically we take the purchase price we subtract a little bit for land And then we divide the rest over 27 and a half years.
But essentially what that does, it allows you to take about a two to 3% deduction of your property value every single year as if it were going down in value by that amount.
You buy a million dollar property, take a little bit off for land divided by 27 and a half, just to keep it simple, but around $30,000 deduction every single year.
What does that mean? Breaking down the purchase price, right? The cost into different components or segments or whatever you want to segregating it into.
Basically, there are three different categories where your property will fit into, okay, on a depreciation standpoint.
Well, we'll take a step back because we have to understand what depreciation is first.
And some of them may know what that is, but really it's just a borrowed term when it comes to real estate.
It's the name of a tax deduction the IRS gives you when you buy a property besides for your primary residence.
So it can be residential, commercial, it can be a single family, multifamily, or like you said, a mobile home park, office, you name it.
you're able to take this deduction called depreciation and it's based solely on you as the buyer so based on your purchase price and when you bought it you get to start what we call depreciating it and it's over a 27 and a half year uh time period basically we take the purchase price we subtract a little bit for land And then we divide the rest over 27 and a half years.
But essentially what that does, it allows you to take about a two to 3% deduction of your property value every single year as if it were going down in value by that amount.
You buy a million dollar property, take a little bit off for land divided by 27 and a half, just to keep it simple, but around $30,000 deduction every single year.
What does that mean? Breaking down the purchase price, right? The cost into different components or segments or whatever you want to segregating it into.
Basically, there are three different categories where your property will fit into, okay, on a depreciation standpoint.
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