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 in development and appears in your portal the day it is released. Buy 5 or more and every course is 30% off.
Instant download after payment. Nothing is withheld for a later purchase.
What you receive
- Landlord Records System.
- Safe Harbor Election Statements.
- Repair vs Improvement Tree.
- 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. Emailed to you the day it publishes, at no extra cost.
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.
Back to this trackEducational 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.