Christian OsgoodCEO, Multifamily Strategy · CEO at Multifamily Strategy

What Software Programs Do We Use and Are They Write-Offs?

8 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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Christian Osgood walks through his company's software projects, from internal CRM tools to custom AI systems, and how they qualify as R&D write-offs. A failed $13,000 app still counted. He's realized tens of thousands in unexpected tax credits from 2025 development spend after R&D rules simplified this year.

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For specific, like bespoke software design. So if you're doing proprietary software, any of that, which remember I built an app that failed, but I spent like $13,000 on it. So that one just straight counted. And then like the, we have our internal CRM, we have our deal finding software, we're developing a new automated calculator that I'm really, really excited about. This could be like a web portal, bunch of backend software for sales and marketing, 'cause that is a huge part of actually finding people for mentorship is a huge cost, huge, huge cost. But a lot of that is proprietary custom-built software. They all go into an R&D budget for your company that is a write-off, which used to be a convoluted mess and they simplified it this year by a lot. Whereas like this counts, this doesn't. And I happen to have a lot of things the way that we built our software, uh, that directly counted. And I spent a crazy amount of money on that specifically in 2025. That was like the year we, we built the custom AIs. I built the custom— everything is automated, um, and custom software to us automatically. Most of it counted, which is really cool. Lots of write-offs. I think there's some cap on how much you can claim, but I, I don't have all the details. I just know that it's tens of thousands of dollars of write-off that I had not accounted for, that I was not expecting, which is really Really cool.