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by CGMthrowaway 194 days ago
It's not special, just requires scale for it to make sense. E.g. Cost segregation studies and UPREIT transactions are cheaper on a neighborhood level. And you need enough passive income to absorb the depreciation losses
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^ This

And the scale applies at every single step of the process. A citizen homebuyer is playing a oneshot game. There are few discounts to be had and every single fee is its own battle.

A corporation/PE is playing a multi-shot game. There are bulk discounts, relationships, and scale that is applied to everything from title insurance and inspections to cost segregations to filing all of the paperwork.

> There are few discounts to be had and every single fee is its own battle.

Also if you take a 10% gamble on a strategy to save 50k and it backfires and lands you with a 500k legal bill, that's just the cost of business to a big (or even not that big) company, but it'd be absolutely ruinous to private individuals.