Cost segregation is everywhere on real estate social media — but what the TikTok gurus aren’t telling you is how fast it can go sideways when it’s done wrong. In this episode, Bonnie sits down with cost seg specialist Rom Neidhardt to expose three real horror stories: an engineer who forgot you can’t depreciate land, a CPA who couldn’t read a drawing, and a $500 software report the IRS would shred on sight. If you’ve ever wondered whether cost seg is actually worth it — or whether your study was done right — this one’s for you

In this episode you’ll learn:

• What cost segregation actually is and whether your property qualifies (hint: it’s not just for Fortune 50 companies anymore)
• The three most common ways cost seg studies go wrong — and what a properly done study should look like
• How cost seg interacts with 1031 exchanges, passive losses, and other tax strategies — and why sequencing matters more than most investors realize

Connect with Rom’s tax practice here.

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