Every commercial property and residential rental property has deductions waiting inside it. The Cost Seg America team engineers, identifies, and values every component in your building — and places each one in its proper depreciation life. Nothing estimated. Nothing averaged.
Most owners are sitting on $200,000 to $450,000 per million in deductions they have never claimed. See your number now — then claim your free, no-cost proposal.
Every commercial property has deductions waiting inside it. The question is whether the study that finds them was truly engineered — component by component, by hand — or simply estimated. Here is the standard every Cost Seg America study is held to.
Our engineering team identifies, measures, and values every qualifying component in your building — each one documented from a real source. Nothing estimated. Nothing averaged.
The IRS names Approaches 1 and 2 — full engineering, every component — as its preferred method. That is the only method we use. Your study is built to be examined, and built to hold.
If the IRS ever questions your study, our team defends it for you — written responses and phone representation, free, for as long as you own the property. No cap. No added fee.
The result: every legal dollar found, fully documented, and defended — a study that brings your money home and keeps it there.
A cheap study does not fail in one obvious way. It fails in five quiet ones — and you will not see any of them until the deductions come up short or the IRS starts asking questions.
A cheap study leans on modeling software, not engineers. The fancy software applies broad national averages instead of valuing your property component by component — so it never gives full, individual value to each and every part of your building.
A cheap study gives you category totals and little else — no line-by-line record showing how each number was reached. If the IRS ever asks to see the support behind the deduction, there is nothing to hand them.
Estimating from averages misses $60,000 to $150,000 in legitimate deductions per $1 million of property. It is never flagged. You will never know it is missing — unless someone engineers the building properly.
It feels like a bargain because it was cheap. But a study that underclaims your deductions and cannot stand up to scrutiny is not savings — it is a cost you have not been billed for yet.
To deliver studies at a low price, cheap-study firms cut the most important step — the on-the-ground engineering analysis that finds every dollar legally available to you. The savings protect the firm's margin, not your deductions.
A cheap study is not a smaller version of a real study. It is a different product entirely — a liability you paid to install on your own tax return.
The cheapest study on the market is the one that costs you the most — in deductions you never claimed, and exposure you never agreed to.
The IRS publishes a 347-page Audit Technique Guide on cost segregation. It names Approaches 1 and 2 — full, component-by-component engineering — as the preferred methods. Here is what separates a study built that way from one that wasn't.
The gap is not opinion. It is arithmetic. Counting every component will always find more than estimating from an average — and the methodology is your deduction.
Any firm can put an impressive number on a proposal — numbers on paper can be inflated, and they cost a firm nothing to print. What matters is the methodology behind the study. Before you hire anyone, ask:
Which IRS approach do you use — and is the work done by engineers, or by modeling software?
Is every component individually identified and valued — or estimated from national averages?
Will the study include a full component unit detail schedule the IRS can trace line by line?
Who defends the study if the IRS examines it — for how long, and at what added cost?
Ask Cost Seg America these questions. We welcome them — because the honest answers are the reason to choose us.
“Every study we deliver is built as if the IRS is already in the room.”— Jim Dougherty, Cost Seg America
Not one component disallowed. Not one study overturned. Not one client left to write a check they shouldn't have. That is not a streak of good luck — it is what happens when every study is engineered to be examined.
A cheap study is a handful of pages. The Cost Seg America study is a full engineering record — the kind of document a CPA can file with confidence and an IRS examiner can trace line by line.
We made the path to your free proposal as easy as it gets. You will know exactly what your building holds — before you commit to anything.
Answer two quick questions at the top of this page — property type and value. Your estimate appears instantly on the calculator page.
One click sends your details to our team. No cost, no obligation, and nothing owed unless you move forward.
We send your exact property-specific figure, your flat fee quoted upfront, and the plan to claim every legal dollar.
"Our team gets their hands dirty — walking the property, valuing every component, building a study that earns the deduction."
Cost Seg America is an American company with an American engineering team. Every study is performed here, by our own people — 100% U.S.-based, every analyst, every study. When your study carries our name, it was built by Americans who stand behind it.
And our team does the real work. They get their hands dirty — identifying and valuing each and every component of your property, one by one, the way the IRS preferred methodology was meant to be done. Not estimated. Not averaged. Engineered.
You built something real. A property, a business, a place that took years of your life to earn. It deserves a study built with the same care you put into it — engineered here, by hand, by Americans who treat your building as if it were their own. That is the promise behind the Cost Seg America name, and it is the only way we have ever worked.
Cost Seg America responds. Written responses and phone representation. No time limit. No hour cap. No additional fee. Ever. It is the same promise that has carried 125+ studies through IRS examination without a single loss.
Use the calculator, see your number, and request your free, no-cost proposal — delivered in 24 hours, with your flat fee quoted upfront and no obligation.