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Course 1.1 · 50 minutes

Rental Property Taxes from the Ground Up

File a rental property correctly, take every deduction you are entitled to, and keep records that survive an audit.

Who it is for
First-property to fifth-property landlords who file Schedule E.
Runtime
50 minutes

Pre-order: this course is still in development. Your purchase includes its materials as they are published in your portal. No release date is confirmed. Buy 5 or more and every course is 30% off.

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After payment is confirmed and your access is set up, the files listed below can be downloaded from your portal. Any unpublished materials will be added when ready, at no additional charge.

Files currently available

  • Landlord Records System.
  • Safe Harbor Election Statements.
  • Repair vs Improvement Tree.
  • Schedule E Calculator Guide.
  • Schedule E Calculator.
  • Slide deck.
  • Visual: Roadmap.
  • Visual: Schedule E vs C.
  • Visual: Income Sorter.
  • Visual: Repair vs Improvement.
  • Visual: Depreciation Clock.
  • Visual: Schedule E Worked Example.
  • Visual: Passive Loss Allowance.
  • Visual: Safe Harbors.
  • Visual: Personal Use Test.
  • Visual: Records System.
  • Workbook.
  • The narrated lesson. 50 minutes, cued to the deck, with chapter markers by lesson. Added to your portal when published, at no extra cost. This purchase does not guarantee that the narrated lesson is available today.

What the course covers

  • 01What a rental is for tax purposes, and Schedule E versus Schedule C6 min
  • 02Rental income: rent, deposits, prepaid rent, and services in place of rent5 min
  • 03The deductions: interest, taxes, insurance, repairs versus improvements, travel, and the landlord home office10 min
  • 04Depreciation basics: land versus building, the 27.5-year clock, and placed in service8 min
  • 05Worked example: a full Schedule E for a single-family rental, line by line9 min
  • 06Tricks of the trade: the de minimis and small-taxpayer safe harbors, and allocating land with the assessor ratio5 min
  • 07Mistakes and traps: personal use, the allowed-or-allowable rule, and commingled money4 min
  • 08Action plan and recap3 min

How it fits: Prerequisite for every other real estate course. Pairs with 4.2 (business deductions) and 7.6 (staying clean).

The standard every course holds

  • A narrated lesson of 45 to 60 minutes, produced as audio
  • A designed slide deck you download and keep
  • A computational workbook that runs the actual legal tests
  • A toolkit of checklists and protocols
  • A legal authority appendix carrying the two-pass vetting protocol

Written for a diligent reader with no legal education. Professionally narrated using a studio voice model of Brian T. Boyd. The course is recorded instruction, not a live consultation.

Where this course sits

Track 1: Real Estate

This course is one step in a track built around a single outcome. See the full build order and the other courses that get you there.

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Educational material from the private client curriculum of Brian T. Boyd. This is legal education for a general audience, not legal advice, and no attorney-client relationship is created by purchasing, viewing, or using it. Tax outcomes depend on your facts and your state.