Tommy DobczykOpportunity Zone Advisor, OZ Wizard · Director of Development | Certified Opportunity Zone Advisor

Unlock Tax Savings: Accelerate Commercial Real Estate Depreciation Now! #shorts

20 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this short video, the speaker explains how owners of income‑producing commercial real estate can use IRS cost‑segregation to accelerate depreciation. He defines commercial real estate broadly—any property that generates rental or service income, such as dentist or doctor offices, office buildings, car washes, short‑term (Airbnb) or long‑term rentals. Instead of depreciating the entire building over the standard 39‑year straight‑line schedule, the property’s components can be re‑classified into shorter recovery periods: typically 5‑year life for interior items (carpet, cabinetry, fixtures) and 15‑year life for exterior or site improvements. By allocating assets to these shorter lives, owners can claim larger depreciation deductions earlier, which offset the property’s rental income and, in some cases, other sources of income. The speaker positions accelerated depreciation as one of the most effective tax strategies for commercial real estate owners.

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Our strength is working with owners of commercial real estate. So commercial real estate being any income-producing property. So that can be a dentist's office, a doctor's office, office building, a car wash, even an Airbnb, which we call a short-term rental, or a long-term rental. Anything, any property that's generating income is a commercial property. Okay. And the IRS allows us to go into that property and instead of depreciating it flatline over 39 years, we can go in and break down the assets in and around that property into 5-year life, which is typically the stuff inside, you know, carpet, cabinetry, those types of things, and 15-year, which is the property or the aspects around on the outside. Of the, of the property. And once you break it into those shorter lives, now you can accelerate the depreciation, which offsets the income generated from that property. And in certain cases, it can also offset income from your other sources of income. So it's one of the best tax strategies out there from my point of view. And do you want to add anything to that?