Many, if not most, landlords will have to rely on depreciation

Depreciation at least will defer your income tax, or to make the paper balance  of income "negative" for a well 30 years. In fact IRS is "kind" to allow depreciation.

BTW, nobody knows for 1000% sure if IRS will make depreciation automatically, but it is a safe bet they want to use an easy way by not differentiating who select and who doesn't.

Ever heard of missed reporting $200K stock trading income to IRS, and the real missed portion is merely $200?

Also you can pass on your cost increase, if not all, to tenant. So they are the real meat ... :)

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• 卖房的时候, 这些折旧是要找回来的. 到时候按当时的税率吗? -abc1967- ♀ (41 bytes) () 03/19/2013 postreply 09:16:35

• 未来的事情, 到时再说. -wooddiy- ♂ (326 bytes) () 03/19/2013 postreply 09:58:01