823: The Tax-Free Strategy Only Real Estate Investors Can Access w/Mitchell Baldridge
Podcast:BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast Published On: Tue Sep 26 2023 Description: What’s the key to paying fewer taxes? A cost segregation study. Never heard of it? Most real estate investors haven’t, but we’re about to unlock a world of tax-free income earning using this specific tool. If you’ve wondered how the wealthy pay such few taxes while owning million-dollar-producing real estate, this is how. In today’s episode, you’ll learn how to use cost segregation, too, so you can keep more money in your pocket. Taxes aren’t everyone’s favorite subject, but paying fewer taxes? You can probably get behind that. We’ve brought on CPA and CFP Mitchell Baldridge to explain how he helps real estate investors, large and small, delete their taxable income and build their real estate portfolios faster. Our own Rob Abasolo uses Mitchell’s team to cut his taxes down by more than six figures! In this episode, we’ll explain what cost segregation is, why so many top real estate investors use it to lower their taxes, when you can (and can’t) use it on your properties, the short-term rental tax “loophole” to take advantage of, AND what happens when you do it wrong. In This Episode We Cover: How to wipe out your income taxes using cost segregation studies Bonus depreciation and writing off your property faster than before Using real estate losses to lower your W2 or business income The short-term rental “loophole” ANYONE can use to reduce their taxable income Carrying over losses and why top real estate investors will NEVER stop buying property Caveats and pitfalls of cost segregation and when it can come back to bite you And So Much More! Links from the Show Find an Agent Find a Lender BiggerPockets Youtube Channel BiggerPockets Forums BiggerPockets Pro Membership BiggerPockets Bookstore BiggerPockets Bootcamps BiggerPockets Podcast BiggerPockets Merch Listen to All Your Favorite BiggerPockets Podcasts in One Place Learn About Real Estate, The Housing Market, and Money Management with The BiggerPockets Podcasts Get More Deals Done with The BiggerPockets Investing Tools Find a BiggerPockets Real Estate Meetup in Your Area Davids's BiggerPockets Profile David's Instagram Rob's BiggerPockets Profile Rob's Instagram Rob's TikTok Rob's Twitter Rob's YouTube Landlord Tax Loopholes That’ll Help You Pay ZERO Taxes Can a Cost Segregation Study Help You Lower Your Taxes? Connect with Mitchell: Baldridge Financial Better Bookkeeping RE Cost Seg STR Cost Seg Mitchell's Twitter/X Click here to listen to the full episode: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-823 Interested in learning more about today’s sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Email advertise@biggerpockets.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices