Hall CPA PLLC

Hall CPA PLLC Real Estate CPAs and advisors helping clients reduce taxes and streamline real estate ventures.

The Real Estate CPA™ is owned by Hall CPA PLLC and was created to better identify with and service real estate investors and business owners. We only take on clients that are in the real estate industry which gives us an edge on the competition. With The Real Estate CPA™, you will receive financial, accounting, and tax expertise to enrich your real estate portfolio and business.

10/08/2026

Insurers don't need a big reason to deny a claim. A technicality is enough.

Nobody wants to talk about insurance until something goes wrong. In this episode of the Major League Real Estate Podcast, Nate and Tom walk through real court cases and news stories showing how real estate investors lose coverage over technicalities, from misstating a property's use (single-family vs. short-term rental) to deeding it to an LLC or family trust without updating the policy.

⚡The link is in the comments below.

10/07/2026

Someone is probably selling you our advice.


If you've read our blogs and then theirs, the topics probably sound familiar.

That's fine. We publish our content for a reason.

But reading about a strategy and knowing whether it works for you are two different things.

A LinkedIn post can tell you the 7-day STR rule exists. It can't tell you whether your co-host's hours count against you. It also can't tell you whether this is the year to run a cost seg study, or the year it just adds to a passive loss you can't use.

That part takes real experience.

Most copycat firms work with investors at one stage. We work with them at every stage: the W-2 earner who hasn't bought a property yet, the couple with three short-term rentals, the operator with fifty doors, and the sponsor running a $100 million fund.

That range changes the advice.

For the first-time buyer, the planning happens before closing. Short-term or long-term rental, whether you'll materially participate, whether a spouse could qualify for REPS. Get those right on property one, and you set up the next ten.

For the growing portfolio, it's the grouping election, entity decisions, and whether a sale should be a 1031 or a year where suspended losses absorb the gain. Each decision affects the others.

For funds, it's partnership allocations, capital accounts, carried interest, and K-1s for hundreds of LPs. Many of our clients also invest as LPs, so we know what those investors need on their own returns.

We know the questions a first-time buyer will face in five years because other clients are asking them today.

A template plan can't do that. And when it misses an election, or the hours never get documented, the money saved on the fee is usually gone many times over.

You're not paying for information.

Most of it is public, and a lot of it is ours. You're paying for someone who has worked through your situation before. Someone who knows the ins and outs. What works for you, but doesn't work for someone else. What flags an audit down the line.

If your current plan came from a template, it's worth a second look before the year closes. And if their website looks AI-generated, assume their guidance comes from there too.

We work with real estate investors at every stage to build a tax plan around their actual facts, documentation for it to hold up, and make sure it lands on the return.

If that's what you're looking for, reach out at the link in the comments.

10/06/2026

The most expensive mistake Airbnb hosts make has nothing to do with guests.

Airbnb may be collecting occupancy tax for you, but that doesn't mean you're in the clear. In this episode of the Tax Smart REI podcast, Tom and Nate talk with Serena Verma, founder of Hostvisors and Monterra Tax, about an audit that uncovered $250,000 in tax exposure and the four ways occupancy tax goes wrong: over-collection, under-collection, over-remittance, and under-remittance.

⚡The link is in the comments below.

10/01/2026

Sometimes diversifying is the most important pivot an investor can make.

In this episode of the Major League Real Estate Podcast, Nate and Tom sit down with Chris Salerno, founder and CEO of QC Capital Group, to discuss why he moved beyond multifamily into express car washes, oil changes, flex industrial real estate, healthcare, and other alternative investments.

⚡The link is in the comments below.

09/29/2026

Your first rental can teach you some expensive lessons.

Ryan Chaw went from working long shifts as a pharmacist to owning 14 student rentals with 90 tenants. He joins Tom and Nate to explain how he built his portfolio using a rent-by-the-room strategy while still working his W-2 job. He also discusses the mistakes he made on his first property that cost him more than $30,000.

⚡The link is in the comments below.

09/29/2026

Buying more properties should make you wealthier.

But it should also change the way you think about taxes.

We see investors build $3M, $5M, even $10M+ portfolios while still treating depreciation like a line item their CPA handles at tax time.

Yes, even at that level, people are not always strategic regarding it.

That's the mistake. Because once you own multiple properties, depreciation isn't just an accounting calc.

It's something that needs to be planned across the portfolio.

Say you own one rental.

Maybe there's a cost segregation opportunity. Maybe there are improvements that need to be classified correctly. Maybe you generate additional depreciation.

Useful.

Now imagine you own eight properties.

You have eight acquisition dates.

Eight depreciation schedules.

Different improvements.

Different holding periods.

Different potential sale dates.

And potentially eight different opportunities to make better tax decisions.

This is where the gap between tax preparation and tax planning starts getting expensive.

Take cost segregation.

A properly executed cost segregation study can move certain components of a building into shorter depreciation lives.

That means deductions that otherwise could take decades to receive may be accelerated.

Across one property, that can matter.

Across an entire portfolio?

It can materially change the timing of your taxable income.

But here's where people get this wrong.

The goal isn't to generate the biggest deduction possible.

The goal is to generate the right deductions in the right years.

Because a huge paper loss isn't nearly as exciting if the tax rules prevent you from using it.

Or, if your tax savings would be more impactful next year than this year

That's why we look beyond cost segregation.

We look at how the properties interact.

We look at passive activity rules.

We look at grouping elections.

We look at material participation.

We look at Real Estate Professional Status when applicable.

We look at your expected income.

We look at what you're buying next.

And we look at how you eventually plan to get out.

Because all of those decisions can change the value of the depreciation you're creating.

Owning the properties is only step one.

You need a strategy built around them.

If you've built a real estate portfolio and your current tax process is basically:

"Send everything to the CPA after December 31st."

We should talk. Book a discovery call at the link in the comments.

Your real estate portfolio is an investment.

Your tax strategy should be treated like one too.

09/24/2026

Timing the market perfectly isn't the goal.

John Cohen, co-founder of Toro Real Estate Partners and JC Property Group, joins Nate and Tom to break down a real estate journey that started with $300 tax deed auctions and grew into hundreds of millions in multifamily, land, and development deals.

⚡The link is in the comments below.

09/22/2026

There's one date that decides whether you get bonus depreciation, and most investors don't know it.

With Q4 underway, time is running out to put the short-term rental tax strategy to work for 2026. In this episode of the Tax Smart REI Podcast, Tom and Nate sit down with returning guest Justin Shore to break down the real "60-day countdown" investors face if they want to close on a property, get it rented, and qualify for STR tax benefits before year-end.

⚡The link is in the comments below.

09/17/2026

Does Your Insurance Actually Protect Your Real Estate Investment?

Having insurance doesn’t necessarily mean your real estate investment is fully protected. In this episode of the Major League Real Estate Podcast, Tom and Nate discuss why market value, loan balance, insurance limits, and replacement costs can all be different, and why simply meeting your lender’s insurance requirements may leave your equity exposed.

⚡The link is in the comments below.

08/11/2026

Did you know some tax elections get made just by leaving a box unchecked?

In this episode, Nate Sosa and Hall CPA's Justin Shore break down the tax elections real estate investors need to understand before filing, from REPS and grouping to bonus depreciation, 1031s, and Section 754. Some of these decisions are easy to undo. Others lock you in for good.

Full episode linked in the comments!

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