Yonah Weiss, the Cost Segregation King, explains how this powerful tax strategy can accelerate depreciation and boost investor returns.
🎙️ Cost Segregation 101 with Yonah Weiss — The Cost Segregation King
In this episode of Carson’s Corner: Commercial Real Estate, Carson sits down with the one and only Yonah Weiss, widely known as The Cost Segregation King, to demystify one of the most misunderstood (and most powerful) tax strategies available to property owners.
Whether you own a small duplex, a medical office, a gas station, or an RV park, cost segregation could change your entire tax picture — and Yonah breaks it all down in plain English.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
🔥 Cost Segregation Explained Simply — What it is, why it exists, and how depreciation really works for property owners.
🏗️ Which Property Types Benefit Most — From multifamily to mobile home parks, RV parks, gas stations, retail centers, industrial, and more. Spoiler: RV parks and gas stations can produce shockingly high first-year write-offs.
💰 How Small Is “Too Small” to Qualify? — Yonah explains why anything purchased over $200,000 (yes, even single-family rentals) is worth reviewing.
🧾 Audit-Proof Engineering Reports — How a 100+ page cost seg study protects you under IRS guidelines — and why you should never try to DIY depreciation.
⏳ Is It Ever Too Late to Do Cost Seg? — Why owners who bought 3, 4, even 6 years ago can still capture massive “catch-up” depreciation without amending past returns.
🏢 Business Owners: You’re Probably Missing Out — If you own the real estate your business operates in, you might be able to offset active business income — even if you’re not a real estate professional.
💼 1031 Exchanges, Opportunity Zones & Recapture — Yonah dismantles the common myths and explains how these strategies work together to reduce or eliminate recapture and capital gains.
👀 Real Stories of Lives Changed — Including the couple who retired early — because their depreciation deductions exceeded their W-2 income.
This Episode Is a Must-Listen If You Are:
- A commercial property owner
- A passive investor in syndications
- A business owner who owns their real estate
- A short-term rental operator
- A broker advising investors
- Or anyone who wants to keep more of the money they earn
Connect with Yonah Weiss
LinkedIn: Yonah Weiss | Website: yonahweiss.com | Cost Seg Firm: madisonspecs.com
Be sure to DM him and mention you heard this episode!
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