If you own a rental home, apartment building, office, or warehouse anywhere in the US, a TDA cost segregation report can put tens of thousands of dollars in tax savings back in your pocket — often in your very next return.
By default, the IRS makes you spread your property’s cost over 27.5 years (for a rental home) or 39 years (for a commercial building). But a large chunk of what you paid — carpet, cabinets, driveway, fencing, HVAC parts, appliances — is legally allowed to be written off in just 5 or 15 years. Most owners never claim it. That’s real money staying with the IRS instead of coming back to you.
Every year you don’t claim accelerated depreciation is another year the IRS keeps money that should be yours. On a typical rental, that’s five to six figures over the first decade.
New federal rules brought 100% bonus depreciation back permanently for property acquired and placed in service after January 19, 2025. Without a cost seg report, you can’t use it.
Cost segregation requires trained construction-cost expertise and a proper property assessment. The IRS specifically calls for it — a spreadsheet estimate won’t hold up in an audit.
Whether your property is a single rental home in Ohio or a commercial building in California, TDA prepares the report and hands your CPA everything they need to reduce your tax bill on your very next return.
Residential or commercial. Single-family or 200-unit. City, suburb, or small town. From Alaska to Florida — if it’s US real estate you own to earn income, a TDA cost segregation report will save you tax.
The classic rental home. Typical first-year tax deduction of 14–22% of the building’s cost. If you own even one, a study almost always pays for itself many times over.
Duplexes, triplexes, apartment buildings. Typically 18–26% of the cost is deductible in Year 1. Especially strong for 5+ unit properties.
Offices, shops, medical suites and mixed-use. Fit-out, HVAC, and specialty electrical typically drive 20–35% Year 1 deductions.
Warehouses, self-storage, industrial parks. Paving, fencing, yard lighting and specialty power often push the deductible portion above 20% in Year 1.
We do the technical work. Your CPA plugs the numbers into your return. You keep more of your money.
Tell us the basics about your property — type, purchase price, when you bought it. We reply the same business day with your projected tax savings and a fixed-fee quote.
The TDA team collects the plans, cost records, and closing documents we need, and does a professional assessment of the property — whether it’s a rental home, apartment building, or commercial site anywhere in the US. You barely lift a finger.
Delivered within 5 business days of us having everything we need. It shows exactly how much of your property qualifies for faster tax deductions, in the format the IRS expects.
Your CPA uses the report to reduce your tax bill on your next return. If you’ve owned the property for years, we can also help you catch up on tax you should have already saved — without amending old returns.
Enter a few basic details about your property — anywhere in the US, residential or commercial — and see the tax deductions you’re leaving with the IRS. No signup. No obligation.
It’s a report that identifies which parts of your investment property can be tax-deducted faster than the building itself. Things like carpet, cabinets, appliances, driveway, fencing, and specialty electrical wear out well before 27.5 or 39 years — so the IRS lets you write them off in 5 or 15 years. Our report puts a defensible number against each of those items.
The result: much bigger tax deductions in the early years you own the property.
For most residential rentals, we’re able to accelerate 14–22% of the building’s cost into the first year’s deductions. For commercial buildings it’s often 20–35%. On a $1M rental property, that typically means somewhere between $30,000 and $70,000 in tax savings in Year 1 alone.
Our free estimator gives you a specific low-to-high range for your property in about 60 seconds.
Almost certainly. If it’s US real estate you own to earn income — a rental home, apartment building, office, shop, medical suite, warehouse, storage facility, short-term rental — it’s a candidate. Bought new or used, one property or a hundred, in any of the 50 states.
No — and this is one of the biggest surprises for our clients. The IRS lets you catch up on all the accelerated depreciation you should have claimed since you bought the property, in a single lump-sum deduction on your current tax return. No need to amend old returns. It’s often the largest single deduction a property owner ever takes.
Cost segregation is fully IRS-approved and has been for decades. The IRS publishes its own Cost Segregation Audit Techniques Guide describing exactly how a proper study should be done — and that’s the methodology we follow. Every report we deliver includes full working papers so if a question ever comes up, your CPA (or the IRS) can see exactly how each number was arrived at.
Yes. TDA serves clients in every US state — residential and commercial. Wherever your property is, we can help.
Fixed fee, quoted before you commit — based on property size and complexity. For a typical single-family rental or small multifamily, the tax savings in Year 1 alone are usually many times the cost of the study. If for any reason a study doesn’t produce a meaningful return for you, we’ll tell you upfront and won’t take the job.
Once we have your documents and property information in hand, your report is delivered within 5 business days.
Tell us a few details about your property. A TDA specialist will call you back within one business day with your projected tax savings and a fixed-fee quote for the report.