Real Estate & the Business
Operating real estate is one of the highest-leverage financial decisions a business owner makes. Ownership structures, sale-leaseback, personal-use traps, and self-rental rules.
Guides
Owning Your Business Real Estate Personally vs. in a Separate LLC: Rent, Liability, and Estate Planning
When your business occupies commercial real estate — a warehouse, retail storefront, professional office, manufacturing facility — you have three structural options for how to own it. You can buy and hold it personally (in your own name or jointly with a…
Sale-Leaseback: Freeing Up Business Cash by Selling Property to Yourself (Structured Properly)
A sale-leaseback is a transaction where a business sells real estate it owns and simultaneously leases it back from the buyer. The business gets cash; the buyer gets a property with an immediate tenant; operations continue without physical disruption.
Personal Use of Business-Owned Real Estate (Vacation Home, Second Office): IRS Audit Red Flags
When a business owns real estate that gets used personally — a lake house held in the company name, a condo in a resort market labeled as a "retreat facility," a boat, a vacation home doubling as an "off-site office" — the IRS has specific reasons to pay…