Jay Olive
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Jay Olive
@HardMoney_VP
Private Money Lending - Prop Tax Minimization
DFW, TX Katılım Temmuz 2023
150 Takip Edilen186 Takipçiler

@HardMoney_VP This is my 9th investment in this zip code and my 3rd on this exact street. I have a very strong understanding of the ROI within this area. It’s tried and true. I appreciate the well wishes!
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We just handed our investors a $4.3M tax loss on a new construction apartment building in Dallas.
That's 53% of the amount they originally invested.
The 2025 return is filed. Here's the exact math.
Total cost was $19.8M, Investors put in $8.2M, a bank lent us the other $11.6M
We built it in the Cedars, just south of downtown.
Here's how the loss works.
The IRS lets you depreciate an apartment building over 27.5 years. Slow and steady.
A cost segregation study speeds it up. An engineer walks the property and breaks it into parts: cabinets, lighting, flooring, appliances, landscaping, parking. Each part has its own shorter life.
On this building, the study pulled $4.3M of the $13M depreciable basis into 5-year and 15-year buckets.
Then the new tax law did the rest.
Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Congress brought back 100% bonus depreciation. So instead of spreading those shorter-lived parts over five and fifteen years, we wrote all of it off at once.
$4.3M of deductions available as soon as we placed the building into service
It's not a loophole. It's the tax code working as written to get housing built.
Now, who can use a loss like this?
Rental real estate losses are passive. A passive investor can only use them against passive income—the kind that comes from other rentals or syndications. They can't wipe out a salary.
Two groups put these losses to work:
--> The investor with passive income from other deals, who uses this loss to shelter it.
--> The high earner who qualifies as a Real Estate Professional, who can take passive losses against active income.
At a 37% rate, a $4.3M loss is about $1.6M of tax that doesn't get paid this year.
One more piece makes those losses usable at all.
Our construction loan is qualified nonrecourse debt. That means investors add their share of it to their tax basis, not just the cash they put in. With $11.6M of debt behind $8.2M of equity, there's room to absorb the full loss.
A paper loss you can't use is worthless. This one, they can use.
Some haters will read to this point and say, "BUT WHAT ABOUT DEPRECIATION RECAPTURE!?!"
When you sell a building, the IRS wants those deductions back. They call it depreciation recapture, and it takes a real bite out of the gain. The IRS adds up all the losses you've taken over the hold period and taxes them at 25%.
Investors can avoid recapture in two ways:
A 1031 exchange defers the tax. You roll the proceeds into another property and keep the clock running.
Or you build using the Opportunity Zone tax structure.
This asset, The Marcus, sits in an OZ census tract, and our investors all came in with capital gains.
Hold the investment for ten years and you pay no tax on the appreciation and no recapture on the depreciation.
The $4.3M loss against this year's income will be tax free.
The appreciation on this $19.8M building will also be tax free.
Most tax strategy pushes the bill into the future.
Opportunity Zones get rid of it.

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@Ruffinonjoeshow Pound for pound the most impactful defensive player I’ve ever seen on a college football field.
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DFW had mapsco. It was brilliant because the area was growing so fast you really needed the new book each year.

Giɴ@Demeter_Erinia
Serious question… How did people get to places before GPS??
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Footage released by authorities in Wisconsin shows a suspect's car go flying over another vehicle as they attempted to flee.
The suspect, who is being held on multiple charges, was eventually arrested after a short foot chase, officials said. abcnews.link/RmGHld5
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Building a real estate empire?
Your grandkids are going to cash out the very first chance they get.
StripMallGuy@realEstateTrent
This morning I asked someone if they'd be open to selling me their strip center. Here was their response:
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Ed Orgeron: "I think that stigma is always going to stay with them, just like other schools have a stigma, but that is definitely there at Ole Miss." audacy.com/wwl/local-spor…
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@righttimebomani IDK if he was being genuine about the recruiting impact, but I know he heard it. It’s pervasive. My fam is from the sip and they told me the same thing Lane says he hears from parents and grandparents. Is it fair? Prob not. Every southern school from that era is just as guilty.
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