Should Your Business Buy Its Building?
Compare the operating company and the owner’s household before treating ownership as a tax strategy.
WHERE BUSINESS MEETS THE BUILDING
A place to operate. An asset to plan.
A practical journal for owners buying, improving, leasing, and eventually selling the buildings their businesses use.
THE DECISION SERIES / 2026
Evaluate the property and the operating business together.
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Start with the decision.
Browse all 36 guides →Owning the Building Outside the Operating Company
Separate ownership creates a landlord-tenant relationship that must work on paper and in practice.
Your Business Pays You Rent: Build the Support File
A related-party lease needs market evidence, clear obligations, and a reliable payment trail.
Land and Building Allocation at Purchase
Separate the components of your purchase before building a depreciation schedule.
Repair or Improvement? Organize the Project Before Filing
Project detail matters more than the label on a contractor invoice.
Cost Segregation for an Owner-Occupied Building
Evaluate deduction timing against study cost, usable losses, and the planned holding period.
A WORKING RESOURCE
Buy-versus-lease cash worksheet
Compare selected first-year cash commitments. Equity building, appreciation, opportunity cost, taxes, and sale costs are outside this simple worksheet.
Open the worksheet →A practical publication.
A clear publisher.
Owner Occupied is published by AE Tax Advisors. Company premises, buy-versus-lease decisions, related-party leases, property records, improvements, and building exits. Our guides explain the question, the tradeoffs, and the records needed for a useful professional conversation.
Read on the page, inspect the original sources, and bring the questions to your own advisors. About this publication →