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A rental property owner who sticks with straight-line depreciation is leaving cash on the table every April. The IRS default spreads a building’s cost over 27.5 or 39 years, but an engineering-based reclassification can shift chunks of that cost into 5-, 7-, or 15-year buckets instead. That difference shows up as real cash flow, not

