We run Airbnbs in Austin ourselves. If you are buying your first one here, the city license and the paperwork discipline are the two things that trip people up. We help with both, and we work with your CPA, not instead of one.
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We run our own Austin Airbnbs, so we have been through the license and the launch ourselves.
One of our own Austin rentals
One-time help around a purchase. If you stay on as an owner, our check-in plans pick up from there.
Austin's short-term rental license, handled with you step by step.
From accepted offer to first guest, with an operator's checklist.
Clean records your CPA will thank you for.
We are not CPAs, attorneys, or tax advisors, and nothing here is tax or legal advice. Confirm everything with your own CPA.
I come from accounting, so this is the part I get excited about. None of it is advice, and your CPA gets the final word. But these are the three things I would want someone to flag for me before I bought.
A study that breaks the property into faster-depreciating pieces, pulling deductions into the early years instead of spreading them over 27.5.
For some buyers, rental losses can offset W-2 income. Whether the rules work that way for you is a conversation with your CPA.
Recent tax law permanently restored 100% bonus depreciation, which changes the math on the first two. Some buyers describe the first-year benefit as effectively funding part of their down payment.
I cannot tell you what you will save. That is your CPA's job. Mine is keeping the records clean enough that the conversation is easy.
Brent and his STR property team set us up end to end: property selection, Airbnb setup, material participation rules, everything, all with taxes in mind. Come May of next year, we'll probably save $200K in taxes just this year. For a NYC resident, this is a huge win!Alice and Owen, Decker House, Stamford, NY
Done with you, not done for you. You stay in control and we bring the checklist.
Send the listing or the neighborhood you are watching, and where you are in the process.
We walk through the license paperwork, the launch setup, or the records system, step by step.
You list with the license number showing and records running from day one. Check-in plans available from there.
We would ask them too.
Yes, for owners in our service area. Austin requires a local contact who can be on site within two hours, which is exactly what our check-in service already does. Ask us about it on WhatsApp.
No. We keep clean, timestamped records of every visit and every fix, which your CPA can use however they see fit. We are not CPAs and nothing here is tax advice.
Yes. Most of the license and launch work is paperwork and video calls. If something needs boots on the ground, that is what our check-in service is for.
Every purchase is different. Message us with the property and we will scope it and agree on a price before anything starts.
Brent is an accountant and an East Austin Airbnb owner himself, including a shipping-container Airbnb, so he knows the numbers and exactly what it feels like to be away from a property. He started Austin Property Watch because it was the service he wanted for his own places: a reliable local person to check in, handle the simple stuff, and give him a straight answer.
Send the listing or the neighborhood you are watching. We will tell you straight whether we can help.
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