Understand the different entity structures available for real estate investors and businesses, and how these choices can affect your tax liabilities and overall financial health.
Most investors think they’re buying cash flow, but the ones who really build wealth know the deal either works after taxes, depreciation, and the exit… or it never worked at all. In this episode of The Tax Strategy Playbook, David Wiener (“Mr. Cash Flow”) and Lane Kawaoka (founder of The Wealth Elevator) rip apart the myths that keep real estate investors stuck in mediocre deals and show how high‑net‑worth investors really structure portfolios using syndications, alternative assets, and smarter ...
I want you to sit with one number: $177,500. That's the tax bill one of my clients avoided entirely — not through a loophole, but by understanding how step-up in basis actually works for real estate investors. In this episode of The Tax Strategy Playbook, I walk through the 5 best assets you can leave your heirs and the 5 worst estate planning traps real estate investors fall into — traps that can cost families six figures in avoidable taxes and legal fees. You'll learn: ✅ How step-up in basi...
Choosing the wrong entity structure is one of the most expensive mistakes real estate investors and small business owners make — and most don't find out until it's too late. In this episode of The Tax Strategy Playbook, host David Wiener sits down with Matt Bontrager, CPA and managing partner of TrueBooks, a firm that works almost exclusively with real estate investors and entrepreneurs. Matt has reviewed hundreds of real-world LLC and S corp structures and pulls back the curtain on how entity ...
