On today’s Performance Mindset Show, Amy sits down with Yonah Weiss, who leads engineering-based cost segregation studies at Madison SPECS. These studies help real estate owners accelerate depreciation, reduce their tax burden, and improve cash flow. Yonah has been featured on hundreds of real estate podcasts and is known for making complex tax concepts practical and straightforward for investors at every level. He is the founder of the CRE LinkedIn Challenge, a community-based series that has helped hundreds of CRE professionals create real connections online. Yonah’s work on IRS-compliant cost segregation is an engineering and accounting process recognized by the IRS to reclassify building components for accelerated depreciation, with the ultimate goal of putting more money back into investors’ hands.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. How Yonah Weiss built a community around the topic of cost segregation and taxes to help others become more successful.
2. A simple definition of cost segregation, what Yonah does, and how it helps his clients.
3. The importance of networking, and the big changes in 2025 to taxes.
4. His favorite client stories and how their lives can change.
5. Why you should never cut corners and the detrimental consequences of doing so.
6. The two tax myths Yonah wishes would disappear forever.
7. His love for podcasts, what they’ve done for his career, and Yonah’s most memorable podcast appearance.
8. Yonah’s warning for business owners and investors.
9. The three under-the-radar real estate voices he believes everyone should be listening to.

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Connect with Yonah Weiss:

Website - www.yonahweiss.com

LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/cost-segregation-yonah-weiss

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