STR Investors: Your Tax Bill Just Got Slashed

26 Aug 2025 · 0 min
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Speaker (Tim Hubbard) explains that a recently passed U.S. tax law restored 100% bonus depreciation, creating large opportunities for short-term rental (STR) investors to offset other income. Key points: qualifying STRs have an average booking/reservation length of 7 days or less; investors who materially participate (commonly via either 500 hours per year, or 100 hours with no one else spending more time) can treat the activity as active and use accelerated depreciation to offset income. A cost-segregation (cost-allocation) study breaks the purchase into components (structure, roof, appliances, furniture, landscaping, etc.) enabling large first-year deductions—speaker cites seeing roughly 20–25% of purchase price written off in year one. The speaker emphasizes using a professional to perform the study and consulting a CPA; he notes he has 15+ years of investing experience and owns properties across multiple U.S. states and countries. Audience: U.S. taxpayers and STR investors.

Questions this video answers

7 days or less.

Either 500 hours per year, or 100 hours per year provided no one else spends more time than you.

About 20–25% of the total purchase price (as an example the speaker gives).

100% bonus depreciation.

Over 15 years.

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