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How to (Legally) Pay the Least Amount in Taxes as a Real Estate Investor

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This episode alone could save you hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands in taxes—all with 100% legal means.

If you own a rental property, you could be paying significantly less in taxes. With the US tax code being favorable to real estate investors and renewed provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill, real estate investing is one of the most tax-advantaged investments on the planet. Today, we’re showing you how to pay the least amount of taxes, before tax day 2026!

Amanda Han, CPA and real estate investor, says 40% of the tax returns she reviews are not optimized for deductions. Investors are leaving thousands on the table and giving it straight to the IRS. But after this episode, you won’t have to anymore.

We’re talking about how real estate investors can reduce their taxable income by up to 20%—instantly. Plus, the one renewed tax deduction that creates six-figure write-offs for investors, and what you can start doing right now to lower your taxes as much as possible starting in 2026. 

Dave:If you skip this episode, you could be leaving thousands of dollars on the table. They say there’s only two things guaranteed in life, death, and taxes. And since you’re alive watching this right now, today we’re going to focus on the latter how real estate investors can legally pay less tax. And things have changed a lot this year. Big time. The big beautiful bill tax provisions are going into effect for this April’s tax deadline, and it has huge implications for real estate investors, and that’s true whether you own one rental or an entire portfolio. The strategies we’re sharing today, they could save you hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of dollars over the lifetime of your investments. In this episode, we’re also going to share under the radar tax strategy that 99% of investors are missing out on. And we’ll have a CPA tell us what you need to do today so you’re never scrambling during tax time again.Hey, what’s up everyone? I’m Dave Meyer, chief Investment Officer at BiggerPockets. Today’s guest on the show is Amanda Hahn. If you haven’t heard Amanda before, she’s been on the show a lot, but she’s an expert. She’s a CPA tax strategist, and she’s a real estate investor herself. She specializes in helping investors pay the least amount of possible taxes legally. And since April 15th is coming sooner than any of us hope or think. Let’s bring out Amanda and learn together how to save some money this year. Amanda Hahn, welcome back to the BiggerPockets podcast. Thanks so much for being here.

Amanda:Yeah, thanks for having me, Dave. I’m super excited to be back.

Dave:Well, we’ve had you on the show many times, but some in our audience may not know who you are yet, so can you just introduce yourself for us?

Amanda:Of course. Hi everyone. My name is Amanda Hahn, and what I always tell people is that I am a CPA by day and by nighttime I am like many of you a real estate investor. My husband and I co-authored the two BiggerPockets textbooks, so if you haven’t checked those out, make sure to do so. One of my passions is really in helping to educate people on all the different things they can do to use real estate, to not just build wealth, but also to save a significant amount in taxes if you do things correctly. So really excited to be here. It’s that time of the year when taxes are top of mind.

Dave:It is. Well, thanks for joining us today, and if you haven’t read Amanda’s book and you want to save money on taxes, it’s the single best thing that you could do. Self-admittedly, Amanda, this about me am terrible at this stuff. I’m not good at tax strategy, but I’ve gotten better because of reading Amanda’s books and getting to know her. So definitely check that out, but hopefully we’ll give you a little taste of the kind of stuff that you can learn here in this episode. So Amanda, maybe just break it down for us, for people who might be new to investing or for those who are just scaling their portfolio, I think a lot of us, it takes a little time to realize that you should be thinking about taxes. What sort of the big buckets of tax strategy that investors should be thinking about?

Amanda:Yeah, well, we will start at the basics, which is that it’s important to understand when you invest in real estate, you are actually a business owner in the eyes of the IRS. And so we hear people talk a lot about how tax law favors business owners when it comes to write-offs, deductions, depreciation. And so it’s really important to understand that as a real estate investor, I am now able to take advantage of a lot of those same tax benefits and deductions that the traditional business owner has access to. And this is true regardless of whether we own our rentals in our individual name or in our trust or in an LLC,

Dave:We call it real estate investing. But it really is just entrepreneurship. You’re starting a small business to own real estate just like any other service business or business that you create. And that is good. That’s a good thing for real estate investing. That’s why you get better tax benefits than if you were to go out and buy stock or cryptocurrency or anything like that. That’s why real estate has so many advantages. So what are the big things that people should be thinking about as they enter tax season right now?

Amanda:What’s really interesting is when we work with investors all over the US on proactive tax planning, about 40% of tax returns that we review from previous years are not optimized for tax savings. And I can share some of the most common mistakes I see. And I think these are kind of the things that we should all keep in mindAs we get ready for tax season. And we’ll start with just capturing expenses as real estate investors. I think we’re all really good at making sure we write off our mortgage interest and property taxes and management fees. But some of those common mis deductions, even insurance, property insurance is one that we see missed pretty frequently. Really, and it’s really strange because we all have property insurance, but just some of the overhead things. Home office, most real estate investors manage their rentals from their home. Very few people actually go out and rent an office space. So if you have an eligible office, make sure you are claiming it because it does help you to save on taxes either today or sometime in the future depending on your facts and circumstances, but just overhead expenses, going to BiggerPockets conference, your BiggerPockets membership, buying a textbook, for example, using your car for business, right?

Dave:Yeah, absolutely. For sure. I always wonder about travel. Is that something that you can deduct? I invest out of state, and so sometimes I’m going to visit the Midwest and I’m staying at hotels. That’s something I can deduct, right?

Amanda:Yeah, for sure. And you actually, it’s not a requirement that you own rental properties in a state in order to take a tax deduction. What is required is that you’re able to demonstrate the main reason for that travel is related to real estate activities. So for example, if I didn’t own any properties in Orlando, but I’m going to Orlando for a BiggerPockets conference, that travel itself should be tax deductible, right? The flights, the hotels, the food when I’m there. And same thing, if I happen to have a trip planned to go to Ohio to look for rental properties, even though I don’t end up buying any properties, my travel costs could be deductible as long as I can show I went there for the purpose of looking for real estate touring properties and things like that.

Dave:So I want everyone to listen to that. This is something that comes out a lot when we talk about outstate investing. People don’t go and visit markets that they’re considering investing in. And I always encourage people to do it. It’s a big expense, I understand that, but it is tax deductible in most situations. So that does take the sting out of it a little bit. It is a business expense and encourage you to think about it. So that’s one big thing people should be thinking about the returns, right, expenses. What else is there?

Amanda:Well, along this kind of a similar line, oftentimes when we review tax returns, obviously one of the big things we look at is depreciation, right? Our ability to take a paper loss on the purchase price of the rental building we purchased, and we frequently we’ll see the depreciation as a very round number. So $500,000 for Main Street or $200,000 for Fremont Street. And that usually jumps out to me as not really capturing all of our costs associated with the acquisition of a property. Because we all know when we buy a property, we’re not just paying the purchase price of it, we are also paying closing costs. And there is different allocated or prorated property taxes, insurance and all those. So one thing we can do for any of you who’ve purchased a property during the year, sold the property, refinanced on a property, make sure you send your closing disclosure to your accountant as you get ready to meet them because then they can take the closing disclosure and pull out all of those associated expenses beyond just you telling them what the purchase price is.

Dave:Okay, that’s a very good tip. And how big of a difference does it make? If you have an average rental property, it’s $400,000, you’re making some cashflow off of it, how big of a difference in your tax is it when you prepare the tax, right? And when you do it sort of just haphazardly?

Amanda:Oh, the answer really depends from person to person, right? Because one question is going to be what is your tax rate? If you’re someone who is in a high tax bracket because you make a lot of income from other sources, then even a thousand dollars of a deduction could save you $500 in actual cash. And for some people that’s, it’s a decent amount. I think for anyone, I would never throw away $500 for no good reason. No. But if you have a good system to track your expenses, those items add up over time. So if you’re able to utilize it this year to offset your taxes, great. If you can’t because of passive activity limitations in the tax world, I always encourage clients, still track them, send it to your accountant because you want to make sure it’s reported. Because even the expenses that you can utilize today, you never lose them. You get to utilize them some point in the future.

Dave:In an era of real estate investing where it’s super hard to find cashflow, this is cashflow. We often treat taxes as this separate income source or something different to think about in real estate. But as Amanda just said, she used a modest example of if you can save 500 bucks, that’s reasonable. If you could save 1200 bucks and that’s a hundred dollars a month in cashflow, that could change your cash on cash return from 3% to 6% in a given year if you’re actually just doing this right? And it’s one of the ways I think you could just keep more money in your pocket and that really has measurable differences in your actual overall return profile.

Amanda:Yeah, I used a very small example, but if we go to the other extreme and say, well, how impactful could that be in real life? If we’re talking about somebody who invested in a rental property where the building was $400,000 with the current law where we have a hundred percent bonus depreciation, that could be what? $120,000 of a deduction just in the first year. If you’re in a 50% tax bracket, that could be $60,000 in tax saving. So we’re saying, okay, save 500 or save 60,000. I love both of those.

Dave:Yeah, sign me up a hundred percent. Alright, so those are some great basics that everyone, whether you’re just starting or have a big portfolio should be listening to. Of course this year we have some exciting tax stuff, I think from a real estate investing perspective where many of the provisions that were passed last year in the one big beautiful bill act are starting to go in effect. So I want to pick your brain on that a little bit. Amanda, we do have to take one quick break. We’ll be right back. Welcome back to the BiggerPockets podcast. I’m here with Amanda Hahn talking about tax strategy. It’s the beginning of the year, it’s time that we all start thinking about this. Amanda enlightened us before the break just on how you should be thinking about capturing your expenses on a property level and how to maximize your deduction so you can keep more money in your pocket. A lot of things are changing though, Amanda. It’s not just the same old, same old in tax world for real estate investors. So maybe you can give us a high level overview of what has changed and what’s in the big beautiful bill act that is relevant for real estate investors.

Amanda:Yes. Well, I mean not surprisingly with the current administration, the one big beautiful bill included a ton of very amazing benefits for real estate investors. One that I think everybody was really excited for was the return of 100% bonus depreciation.Previous to that, we can always take depreciation on our rental properties, but under the old law, if there hasn’t been changes this year, bonus depreciation would’ve only been at 20%. So with the change of the law, now bonus depreciation for 2026 is at a hundred percent, which effectively means if you bought a property after January 19th, 2025 or anytime in 2026 and the foreseeable future, not only do we get to take depreciation on our rental properties, but that amount is supercharged, meaning we can take a very significant tax benefit upfront rather than the traditional rule of having to wait over a significant number of years to take a tax write off for it.

Dave:And maybe you could just help us understand what is the benefit of frontloading depreciation and what are some instances or circumstances where you recommend that for real estate investors?

Amanda:For sure, the purpose or the benefit of accelerated depreciation, basically saying rather than waiting over time to take a tax benefit on the purchase price of my rental building, I’m going to do what’s called a cost segregation study. And what that does is it allows me to then take faster depreciation this year and maybe the next few years rather than having to wait. So effectively we’re looking at the time value of money of

Speaker 3:Savings.

Amanda:In other words, I know I have to pay taxes to the IRS, I can either pay it now or I can pay it slowly over the next 27 or 39 years. And if I choose to pay my taxes later, that means I’m able to keep my cash longer with me today and reinvest and grow that money today rather than just giving it to the IRS. So that’s where the concept of it. Now, I will say it is not for everyone. So don’t run out and start taking accelerated depreciation just because you hear it here. The ideal profile of when you want to take accelerated depreciation are in years where you can actually benefit from it. So that would be years where you have high taxable income and or years where you can actually utilize rental losses to offset that different set of income that you’re generating, whether it’s from a W2 or a business that you operate. And so conversely, who should not do a cost segregation? Well, you should not accelerate depreciation if you’re not able to utilize it this year.

Dave:For someone like me or maybe for someone else who has a W2 job is bonus depreciation and doing the cost even worth it.

Amanda:Another great time to do cost segregation is if you have a gain. So let’s say I have a portfolio, but I sold one rental for a huge gain and I didn’t want to 10 31 exchange or use other strategies. I could also consider a cost segregation on one of the properties in my existing portfolio and try to offset one with the other.

Dave:So you can actually take the depreciation from one portfolio property and apply it to another one even if you’re not a real estate professional.

Amanda:Yep, exactly. Exactly.

Dave:Love that.

Amanda:And I will say one other thing since we’re on the topic of someone who is not a real estate professional, you may have been told by your accountant that there is no tax benefit to you investing in real estate because either you work full time or you make too much money. And when you hear that from an accountant, they’re doing what I called tunnel visioning because all they’re saying is, for example, Dave, you are not going to see a huge benefit this year in owning rental real estate. You’re still going to pay taxes on your W2 income. But what they’re not factoring in are the different benefits, which is I generated rental cash flow that I’m not paying taxes on. And also in the future when I generate future cashflow, I may not have to pay taxes on. And also the most important part, which is at the end of my investment with this specific property, if I were to sell it at that point, I can actually use all of the accumulated losses from that property to reduce not just the capital gains from the sale, but also W2 and all other income as well. So there’s absolutely benefit to being a real estate investor. It’s just a timing of when somebody actually sees that.

Dave:One of the things I struggled with early in my investing career is you look at these things, you say, oh, I’m going to pay this tax eventually if I just defer it. And at least for me, I didn’t really appreciate the time value of money element. I can keep more principle in my pocket and use that to go buy other investment properties to make renovations on my properties. And in addition to just delaying that, this is getting nerdy about it, but you also wind up paying your taxes in inflated devalued dollars over time too. So you’re purchasing power. Part of the idea of the time value is money is your money is worth today more than it’s worth in the future. And so if you can hold onto it and use it to build your portfolio currently, then it’s better to invest a hundred dollars today than it’s a hundred dollars several years from now.And so that’s one of the main things about tax strategy that real estate allows you to do. And that’s kind of the same idea behind a 10 31 too, right? You eventually in theory at least have to pay that tax, but if you can defer that and go out and save the 20% on capital gains and just go buy another property, it means you just have more purchasing power, which is so powerful, especially early in your investing career. So anyway, long conversation here about bonus depreciation, depreciation in general. Anything else from the one big beautiful Bill act that our audience should know about?

Amanda:Yeah, well beyond bonus depreciation, one of the good things about the one big beautiful bill is that we were able to retain the tax that’s called qualified business income deduction, QBI for short. So that was something that was available that was then extended as part of the one big beautiful bill. And basically the reason we care about that is real estate investors is QBI basically allows certain types of business income to have tax-free treatment up to 20%. So an example could be if I’ve owned my rentals for many years and even after using depreciation and cost segregation, I have to pay taxes. There’s taxable income. Well, under QBI, if I had a hundred dollars worth of taxable income, I may only have to pay taxes on $80 of it, which means $20 of my taxable rental income could be completely tax free. And this doesn’t just apply to rental income, it applies to all different types of income, specifically in real estate as well. So for those of you who are flipping properties, doing wholesale, or if you’re property manager co-hosting all of the different types, up to 20% of that taxable income could potentially be tax free under QBI deduction. And that is something we enjoy for 2025 as well as 2026.

Dave:Amazing. Finally, a tax win for flippers at wholesalers. Honestly, as you’re listening to Amanda, most of the benefits for real estate investors come with buy and hold styles of investing. It doesn’t need to be rentals. A lot of them still apply for short-term rentals or midterm rentals, but it’s kind of a buy and hold. The transactional kind of real estate doesn’t always get the same treatment. But QBI is a great example,

Amanda:Although I will say that for some reason a lot of tax returns we review that are prepared by other firms are often missing that QBI deduction. So one of the things as you’re getting ready to meet with your accountant to file last year’s taxes, that’s another question you can add to the list is just to have them double check, make sure I’m getting my qualified business income deduction. And it very well could be that, hey, it doesn’t apply to you because you have rental losses, right? So when we have losses, it doesn’t apply because we’re already not paying taxes on it. But to the extent you have taxable income from real estate or even a non-real estate business, it’s super, super significant when it comes to savings. We see this mostly with our clients who do fix and flips and our clients who are on the active real estate side, brokers, realtors, has been a very significant tax saving in the past couple of years.

Dave:All right, well everyone, make sure that you have QBI or at least think about QBI and see if you qualify for this QBI deduction this year. Sounds like that could be a huge savings. Alright, we got to take a quick break, but when we come back, we’re going to talk to Amanda about how to set yourself up for a stress-free and hopefully very profitable tax prep season this year. Stay with us. We’ll be right back. Welcome back to the BiggerPockets podcast. I’m Dave Meyer here with Amanda Hahn talking tax prep and tax strategy for 2026. We’ve talked about what things you should be looking for in your tax prep this year. Talked about the new changes in the one big beautiful bill act that investors should be paying attention to. But Amanda, I just want to talk about the stress that comes with tax prep. It’s not fun for most people, so how do you systematically recommend people go about doing this so that they can capture the most benefit, but that’s not driving them crazy?

Amanda:I’ll tell you what I feel are the two main reasons people hate tax season. I mean outside of just the fact that they have to pay taxes. I think one is record keeping. Okay, if you’re someone who has not done good record keeping last year, this is sort of the end of the road where you’re like, man, now I got to go through my bank statements and my receipts and try to categorize all the stuff that I don’t remember what I did or didn’t do. And really the best way to change that is just to have systems in place, right systems for your bookkeeping and accounting. If you have the budget to outsource it, great, take that off of your hands If you don’t, it’s really just a matter of setting time aside on a monthly basis to make sure you do all of that.Because if you’re like me, it’s difficult for me to remember what I did a week ago. So for me to have to think about a year ago, that’s the stress of like, oh my gosh, it’s like a mountain of paperwork and we know it’s coming every year, tax time comes. So I think just taking the time set up a system that works for you, whether it’s QuickBooks or SSA or an Excel spreadsheet, whatever that happens to be, but getting the system set up so you are doing it on a month-to-month basis really will help alleviate a lot of the stress at tax time. I think the second reason people don’t like tax season is the surprise. So the surprise of

Dave:So true,

Amanda:The anxiety of like, am I any refund? Am I going to owe a lot? The best way to alleviate or prevent that is with proactive tax planning. So for a lot of our clients, and that’s why we focus so much on the planning because your tax bills should never be a surprise. If you’re planning during the year, if you’re meeting with your accountant throughout the year, before you buy properties, before you sell properties, before you open a new LLC or partner with a friend of yours, to always kind of have at least touch points on, okay, what’s our income, what’s our deductions? So that by the end of the year in December, we have a pretty good idea whether we owe or we’re going to get a refund. But I will say you can only have effective tax planning if you have good financial records. So that also goes back to just having clean bookkeeping. So we know

Dave:That’s a good point.

Amanda:We can monitor year round.

Dave:Well, I want to talk to you more about tax planning. I think that’s a super important thing. But when you talk about bookkeeping, are there any tools? You mentioned QuickBooks, tesa, both good tools. Are there any new ones? I’ve been getting a lot of ads honestly for AI bookkeeping. I don’t know if that’s just people who want to say everything is AI right now, but it’s really just the same product. It’s always been. But are there any specific things that you think people should be looking for when they’re setting up a system

Amanda:From a tax perspective? The main thing you want to look for is the ability to track income and expenses by property. That is what’s required for IRS reporting. And also just for you as a property owner, if you have multiple properties, I want to know how each property is doing. And I think a quick tip I would say is to have a separate bank account that you use exclusively for real estate things.

Dave:A hundred percent, yes.

Amanda:If you have an LLC for your rental properties, use that account. If there’s no money in there, you transfer money from your personal account into the LLC account and then pay for the expenses. That I think helps to cut people’s bookkeeping headache by maybe 80 or 90%.

Dave:Yes, there is a no brainer for doing that. That’s a great quick tip. So let’s talk a little bit about tax planning proactively. I like this idea. So can you give us an example? I’m going out to buy a new property this year. I call you and say, how do I plan for this in the most taxed optimal way? What are some of the things you’re thinking about or some of the things I should be thinking about?

Amanda:And I think, again, it kind of depends a little bit on the different facts and profiles of a specific taxpayer. So if we’re saying, oh, well Dave is not a real estate professional, a household with dual income W2, nobody is really able to claim real estate professional status, then maybe a recommendation could be, can we consider a rental property or the next one you buy to be a short-term rental?Why? Because short-term rentals, we can use the short-term rental loophole where you don’t have to quit your job. Real estate could be a side hustle. You could potentially use the short-term rental losses against W2 and other types of income provided that you meet all of the requirements that still being hands-on and all those things. And so that part of the conversation then maybe kind of veers into where should the property be? Should it be close enough where you can be more hands-on, or are you comfortable with using apps to be able to semi manage or self-manage remotely as well? And then what kind of entity who should be on it? Is it one person, both spouses? So that’s the fun part, right? The initial question is, I want to buy more real estate this year. And then it turns into a lot of different decision makings on, well, have you considered this or that also to get the optimal tax benefit too.

Dave:Yeah, and I would imagine we started this section of show just talking about stress, that when you plan this upfront, that basically takes away what you were saying, the stress of the unknown at the end of the year. When you add a new property, it’s only incrementally making your taxes more complicated, not like doubling it. If you’re going from one to two properties, now you have double the amount of work you have to do for taxes

Amanda:For sure. I mean, just having even a system could be, I have a checklist whenever I buy new properties, here are the things I need to put in a folder, the closing disclosure, the appraisal form. I also probably want to make sure I have an entity set up, or at least I’m going to call my CPA, let them know these things happened. So just having that already. So every time I am expanding my portfolio, these are the things I’m going to keep here together. And that tax time is just a matter of sharing all those things in that folder with your accountant or with your bookkeeper even on a monthly basis.

Dave:Awesome. Well, this is great advice and I really recommend people doing this. Again, I know I keep saying this, but I just think in general, people get really excited about buying properties when they’re first starting, which is right. And then two years into your investing career, you’re like, oh my God, I could have been doing this so much better from a tax perspective, but take it from me, take it from Amanda. Just try and do this stuff upfront. I promise you it will be worth your time and money. It is always worth your time and money to start doing these things upfront.

Amanda:And I will say I unfortunately do meet people who historically are very model citizens when it comes to tax filing. If they just have a W2 job, they own their home and it’s like always filed on time, filed by February or March, and then, oh, I bought rental properties and then I got overwhelmed and I just basically stopped filing tax returns because I didn’t know what to do. But I think it’s really important to understand if I’m describing you as a listener, it’s really important to understand that taxes don’t go away, so you will have to file your tax return. And again, the sooner you do it, the better you’re going to feel. I promise you.

Dave:All right. One last question for you, Amanda, before you get out of here. You said you’re also a real estate investor. What are you investing in these days?

Amanda:Oh, well, actually I live in California, but I grew up in Las Vegas and I went to college there. So a big part of our portfolio has been in Las Vegas, so we continue to expand in Vegas. But I think our latest acquisition was in Florida, and I talk about this with clients as well. In the last couple of years, we’ve gotten more and more into passive investments through syndications and things like that all over the us. And for us, it’s just a change in priorities. And our focus, we’re in a season of life where we have two young boys that require a lot of attention with sports and all the things. So it wasn’t like before when we were starting out, it was a lot of Burr properties. We have the time, we didn’t have the money, we had the time, and now we’re in a different place where we have more of the resources but not as much time to go after the properties ourselves. And we might change when the kids leave us and go off to college, then we might go back to doing burrs or maybe doing our own apartment buildings.

Dave:A hundred percent. I’ve done the same thing, done a lot more passive investing over the last couple of years. And that’s the benefit. You get to a place where you’ve put in the hard work and then you get to choose. You get to choose if you want to do investing passive. I moved back to the States now I’ve kind of missed doing some active investing. So I’m doing that more for fun than just not needing to. But that’s the goal. So congratulations on getting to that stage in your investing career.

Amanda:Yeah, thank you. And are you considering house hacking with your new home?

Dave:I’m calling it a live-in flip because we’re not renting out any part of it, but we bought an under, it’s a 1968 build and it feels like it’s 1968, I’ll tell you that. We got popcorn ceilings. We still have those intercoms that people used to have super old school. They still work. It’s pretty fun to use

Amanda:Only in the expensive homes though, when they have those, right?

Dave:I think back in the day, yeah, it was nice, but it’s still perfectly comfortable. But the idea is we’re going to start renovating it and hopefully spend probably in somewhere in the 200, 250 grand range, but we think it will increase the value like 400,000. This is in Seattle, very expensive market. But that’s kind of the idea. But I’m calling it a live in flip, but I don’t know if we’ll actually sell it after two years. We might live in it for longer, but we’ll see. But we’re going to do a value add to it.

Amanda:Yeah, I love that. And I think a lot of clients, I mean a lot of newer investors think that primary home investment strategies are for people who are just starting out in real estate, but I think people will be shocked to know how many of our clients that are doing very large deals also try to optimize their primary home a hundred percent to the nth degree. So I love that.

Dave:Yeah. The other place we were considering buying was a house hack. It was like an up down duplex, and we were going to rent out the bottom basement. Personally, my dream home is like a primary that has an A DU above a garage that I could rent out. That would be the perfect situation. But Henry and I actually just did a show about this yesterday. We recorded it talking about how at every phase of your investing career, thinking about your primary residence as an investment makes sense. You don’t have to for your lifestyle, but there are always things you can do to make your primary home a money maker for you if you’re willing to make what I think are pretty small sacrifices to get those gains.

Amanda:And the tax benefits are just typically pretty amazing when we’re talking about primary homes. Absolutely.

Dave:Well, Amanda, thank you so much as always for being here. We really appreciate it.

Amanda:Yeah, thanks for having me.

Dave:And if you want to learn more from Amanda, you should go check out her two books that she’s written. You can get them on biggerpockets.com or you can always find them on Amazon. And I’m happy to say Amanda will be back at BP Con this year speaking and leading a tax workshop. As she always does, BP Con tickets are now available. Early bird tickets are for sale to the cheapest they will ever be. So if you want to get in there and get some hands-on advice from Amanda and her husband Matt, come to BP Con in Orlando this year, biggerpockets.com/conference. And if you to hear the episode I was just talking about with Henry and I talking about primary residents, it’s episode 1236. It came out on February 6th. Go check that out. Thanks again, Amanda, and thank you all so much for listening to this episode of the BiggerPockets podcast. We’ll see you next time.

 

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