Cost segregation was kept from you on purpose.
We experienced the gatekeeping directly. If you wanted access to this strategy, it would cost you — in fees, in time, in knowing the right people. We built Abode to end that.
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“We named it Abode because your rental property is someone’s home — and because what we unlock is the tax strategy hiding inside it: Airbnb Bonus Depreciation.”
— Abode founding team
A perfectly legal strategy, deliberately kept out of reach.
Cost segregation has existed for decades.
Engineering firms have charged $5,000–$15,000 for studies that take 4–8 weeks. Qualification thresholds were quietly set high enough to exclude most residential investors. The math only worked if your property was a strip mall.
The knowledge was deliberately siloed.
Your CPA might not bring it up — it's not their job to proactively redesign your tax strategy. Traditional firms have no incentive to tell you a cheaper option exists. And unless you already knew to ask, you'd never find out you were leaving tens of thousands of dollars on the table. Every year.
Short-term rental investors got hit hardest.
The STR tax loophole — and the bonus depreciation that makes it explosive — is one of the most powerful wealth-building tools in the tax code. But the only people who knew about it were the ones who could afford an attorney to explain it to them.
Every STR investor deserves to know what’s in their tax code.
We built Abode for the investor who is running a real business — managing guest communications, keeping the property immaculate, optimizing their listing at midnight — but doesn’t have a real estate empire or a $500-an-hour tax attorney.
AI lets us do in minutes what took an engineer weeks. That means we can offer a complete, IRS-methodology cost segregation study for $481 flat. No surprise fees. No annual subscription. No discovery call. No gatekeeping.
Four principles we don’t negotiate on.
Radical transparency
Our methodology is built on the IRS's own published Cost Segregation Audit Techniques Guide. We're not doing anything novel or proprietary — we're making the standard accessible.
Accessible by design
Flat pricing. No engagement letters. No annual retainer. No discovery call required just to find out if you qualify. The information — and the tool — is yours.
CPA-first deliverables
We don't replace your tax professional — we equip them. Every study ships as a PDF report and Excel fixed asset schedule your CPA can hand directly to the IRS.
STR-specific from the start
Cost segregation for short-term rentals has unique rules around bonus depreciation, the STR loophole, and material participation. We built for that use case, not commercial office towers.
Find out what your property qualifies for — free.
Two minutes. No account required. A real savings estimate based on your actual property data.