Fixed fee · Audit defense in writing · Built to the IRS's own guide
We turn a property and a few tax facts into an audit-defensible study. You speed up your deductions, often $50,000 to $500,000 in year one. Every study is backed by The Audit Defense Pledge, in writing: lose the audit on our study and we refund your fee. Fixed fee starting at $497, no contingency, ready in 45 days.
The estimate is the pitch. It is instant, free, and nobody calls you unless you ask us to.
Is this you?
What it is
A cost segregation study breaks your building into its parts. Some parts wear out faster than the shell. The IRS lets you depreciate those parts over 5, 7, or 15 years instead of 27.5 or 39. That moves big deductions into your early years, when they help the most.
It works best when your building basis is over $200,000, you are in a high tax bracket, and you can use the losses now, as a real estate pro or a short-term rental host. Our study tells you the exact number before you commit.
The first two rows can move to year one. That is the $78,866 shift in this study.
The law just changed
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act made 100% bonus depreciation permanent. It applies to property acquired and placed in service after January 19, 2025. That means the short-life parts a study finds can often be deducted in full, in year one.
Bought in early 2025? Transitional rules can apply, and some dates fall under a 40% rate instead. We check your dates as part of the study.
The offer
One fixed fee. One stack of work. Here is every piece you get, and what the same work costs at the firms that quote you by phone.
Built to IRS Pub 5653 quality standards. Every part priced and placed in a 5, 7, or 15-year group.
Commonly quoted at $5,000 to $15,000 by quote-only firms.
Roughly 91 pages, audit-ready.
Our full sample report is free. Tell us where to send it and it opens right away. Most firms make you ask twice.
Every claim is backed by real cases and rulings, and the library keeps growing. Most firms make you ask for these.
Date-stamped photo plates tie each part to its proof. This is what holds up on exam.
Own it a few years? Add the catch-up package and claim every dollar you missed, in one shot, no amended returns.
If the IRS looks at your study, we draft the response and defend the work. 40 hours, 3 years, no extra fee.
Typically sold as a $295 to $1,995 add-on elsewhere, if offered at all.
Lose the audit on our study, reported correctly, and we refund your study fee. We put it in writing.
Up to 5 revisions included within 7 days of delivery on Self-Serve; Expert Reviewed extends the window to 90 days. Ready in 45 days.
If Congress changes the bonus depreciation rules, we update your depreciation schedule free. Your study stays current without a new fee.
How it works
Share the address, a few tax facts, and some photos. It takes about 15 minutes. Extra details make the study stronger.
Your photos, plans, and records become a date-stamped evidence log. We measure site work from satellite imagery too.
We sort building parts into 5, 7, and 15-year groups. We price each part and back it up with court cases.
On the Expert Reviewed tier, an accountant from our team at Elevated Tax Strategies, our sister tax firm, reviews and signs the study before it is released.
A robust, comprehensive PDF with 42 itemized parts, photos, our published library of court and IRS authorities, and a state conformity chart. We leave no stone unturned.
Why us
If the IRS looks at your study, we draft the response and defend the work ourselves. 40 hours of defense, 3 years, no extra fee. The same two partners who build your study answer the examiner. No sales-to-prep-to-review chain to hand you off through.
Read The Audit Defense PledgeWe publish our fees. No discovery call to learn the cost. No contingency, no hourly creep.
Every study meets IRS Pub 5653 quality standards. Photo evidence and real court cases back each claim, and Expert Reviewed studies are signed by an accountant from our team.
Cost-seg pairs with 100% bonus depreciation, now permanent under OBBBA for property acquired and placed in service after Jan 19, 2025.
Owned it a few years? We prep Form 3115 so you can claim the missed deductions on this year's return.
A $495 software estimate
An algorithm and an auto-generated schedule. Nobody looks at the property, and audit support is usually an extra, if offered at all.
Our full study (IRS detailed engineering approach)
Documented photo evidence, an accountant's sign-off on Expert Reviewed studies, a roughly 91-page report with 42 parts, and audit defense in writing.
Our Self-Serve tier is not that. You answer the questions, and the platform builds your full study with photo evidence and audit defense in writing, for the same money.
If your property is small and simple, a software estimate may be all you need. See the full comparison or run our free estimate and see.
Pricing
Two property types. Each one has a Self-Serve tier you run yourself and an Expert Reviewed tier an accountant signs. Audit defense and the photo-evidence appendix are always included. Never sold as an add-on.
Single-family, short-term rental, duplex, triplex
Property value $75K to $1.5M
Run it yourself. Flat fee, all-in
Any property value. Required over $1.5M
An accountant reviews and signs your study
Multi-family, office, retail, medical, industrial, and more
Property value starting at $75K
Commercial is coming online, so we book a short call to start your study today
Any property value. Required over $1.5M
Scoped to your property on a short call
Above $5M basis, a portfolio of 3 or more, or a special vertical? See custom pricing.
Get a free Year-1 savings estimate. No call required to see a number.