We scratched our own itch — and built it for you.
We’re rental property investors ourselves. We hit the same wall every STR owner hits: this incredibly powerful tax strategy exists, everyone who knows about it benefits enormously from it, and somehow almost no one actually uses it. We decided to fix that.
We were investors who couldn’t get a straight answer.
When we started looking into cost segregation for our own properties, we found the same thing over and over: information that was technically available but practically withheld. Every article was a sales funnel. Every "free consultation" was a pitch. The fees were structured to make the math difficult to justify unless you had a large commercial portfolio.
Our own CPAs — good ones — knew about cost segregation. But the traditional process was expensive, slow, and required site visits and engineering firms. At $5,000–$15,000 per property, it only penciled out for the biggest investors. Everyone else was left to depreciate over 27.5 years and never know what they were leaving on the table.
What really bothered us wasn't the price. It was the information asymmetry. The strategy is IRS-approved, well-documented, and extremely effective — it's in the Code. But the people who controlled access to it were monetizing the friction, not the expertise. That felt wrong.
“So we built it ourselves. As investors, for investors. We partnered with tax professionals and built the tool we wished had existed when we started.”
— Abode founding team
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We’re on the investor’s side. Full stop.
We love our CPA and tax professional partners — they’re a critical part of how this strategy gets implemented, and we’ve built everything to hand off cleanly to them. But Abode was built for the investor first. The person managing guest communications, keeping the property pristine, optimizing their listing at midnight, and running a real short-term rental business.
That investor deserves to know exactly what’s in the tax code for them — not filtered through a gate, not after an engagement letter, not contingent on whether their CPA happens to bring it up unprompted. The knowledge should be free. The tool should be affordable. The result should be immediate.
AI lets us do in minutes what took an engineering firm weeks. That means a complete, IRS-methodology cost segregation study for $481 flat. No surprise fees. No annual subscription. 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.