What’s in a cost segregation study?

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A cost seg study can look complex at first. But ours is organized section by section, for transparency and clarity. It opens with the core facts about the house, from the county assessor and the permit office, each one cited. Next to the contents are your deliverables, and they're interactive. The executive summary is usually your CPA's favorite. It shows the total depreciation in one place. Furniture isn't depreciated. It's expensed in full, and together that's over six hundred thousand dollars in year one. How the asset depreciates shows where that value comes from: the write-off, bonus depreciation, and depreciation over thirty nine years.

Component allocation is where owners spend the most time. It's the reverse takeoff, room by room, with every part measured and sourced. You can see when the owner's receipts set a price, and when a part was modeled, and priced from a third-party source. The allocation rollup is what a traditional study shows. Ours breaks it out, line by line.

Next is our distinct technology: four products that power the study's defensibility. Inspector gathers the data, starting with the place itself. It also sees what the remodel changed. At The Sea Ranch, the finishes were standard before the remodel, and the replacements are premium. Landscaping matters, because it can hide a significant amount of depreciation value. Inspector maps every planting, and locks each part of the house into a spatial node. Inventory finds the furniture in your photos, like the living room sofa, and prices each piece. Surveyor documents the remodel: what changed, and what it cost. And the workpaper seals the full calculation trail, ready if an examiner asks.

The study shows how your state treats the deduction, verifies every source, calibrates the method to the standards IRS examiners use, and cites the authority behind every line.

Last, every study runs through engineered review, so its defensibility stays attached to the home. Run your cost seg study today, engineered for the highest supportable deduction. Visit unlevered.io.