{"id":28450,"date":"2026-03-21T17:01:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/?post_type=epkb_post_type_3&#038;p=28450"},"modified":"2026-03-23T04:01:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T04:01:50","slug":"paying-your-children-from-the-rental","status":"publish","type":"epkb_post_type_3","link":"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/paying-your-children-from-the-rental\/","title":{"rendered":"Paying Your Children From The Rental"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 ez-toc-wrap-right counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table Of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/paying-your-children-from-the-rental\/#Tax_Advantages\" >Tax Advantages<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/paying-your-children-from-the-rental\/#Getting_Money_Out_Of_The_Rentals\" >Getting Money Out Of The Rentals<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/paying-your-children-from-the-rental\/#Create_A_Property_Management_Company\" >Create A Property Management Company<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/paying-your-children-from-the-rental\/#Property_Management_Problems\" >Property Management Problems<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/paying-your-children-from-the-rental\/#Payroll_Processing_Problems\" >Payroll Processing Problems<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/paying-your-children-from-the-rental\/#Tax_Savings_Of_Employing_Your_Children\" >Tax Savings Of Employing Your Children<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/paying-your-children-from-the-rental\/#The_Equal_And_Opposite_Reaction\" >The Equal And Opposite Reaction<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/paying-your-children-from-the-rental\/#Education_Credits\" >Education Credits<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/paying-your-children-from-the-rental\/#Add_Your_Children_To_Your_S_Corporation\" >Add Your Children To Your S Corporation<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/paying-your-children-from-the-rental\/#Considering_Your_Children_Independent_Contractors\" >Considering Your Children Independent Contractors<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/paying-your-children-from-the-rental\/#Mom_And_Dad_your_parents\" >Mom And Dad (your parents)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-12\" href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/paying-your-children-from-the-rental\/#Summary_of_Paying_Your_Children_From_The_Rental\" >Summary of Paying Your Children From The Rental<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-13\" href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/paying-your-children-from-the-rental\/#I_Just_Got_A_Rental_What_Do_I_Do_2026_Edition\" >I Just Got A Rental, What Do I Do? 2026 Edition<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-14\" href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/paying-your-children-from-the-rental\/#Rental_Expert_Pod_the_REP\" >Rental Expert Pod (the REP)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-15\" href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/paying-your-children-from-the-rental\/#Talk_to_a_Real_Estate_CPA_About_Your_Rental_Property\" >Talk to a Real Estate CPA About Your Rental Property<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-16\" href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/paying-your-children-from-the-rental\/#Schedule_Discovery_Meeting_Now\" >Schedule Discovery Meeting Now<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221; woodmart_inline=&#8221;no&#8221; text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;]<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28456\" src=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/028450_599068577_paying_children_rental_300.jpg\" alt=\"Paying Your Children From The Rental\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>By <strong>Jason Watson, CPA<\/strong><br \/>\nPosted Sunday, March 22, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Should you pay Johnny or Suzie to paint a wall? Or build out your social media platforms? Mow the lawn with scissors? Perhaps. While most parents can\u2019t get their children to clean a counter or put away dishes, putting them to work on the rental properties might be a good option.<\/p>\n<p>This section is long and nuanced, so buckle up for your safety. Here we go.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Tax_Advantages\"><\/span>Tax Advantages<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>There are some tax benefits to paying your children- for example, you can pay your child $15,700 in wages since the standard deduction is also $15,700 (for the 2026 tax year) and they will not have any taxable income. You can still claim them as a dependent too (see below). From there, they can also gift this money back to you, save for a house down payment, or help pay for groceries.<\/p>\n<p>Some kidding aside, for you to give your child $15,700 to save for college or pay for college, it requires $20,700 or more in parental income because of just your federal income taxes. Simply take $15,700 and divide it by 76% for the 24% marginal tax bracket. At 35% marginal tax bracket, it takes $24,150 in parental income to give your children $15,700 and we haven\u2019t even considered your portion of Social Security and Medicare, nor state income taxes.<\/p>\n<p>For grins, taking $15,700 and dividing by 55% which represents 45% in a truckload of taxes equals $28,550. As such, there are some real tax advantages to employing your children to work on your rental property.<\/p>\n<p>There are three basic ways to compensate them for their amazing talents and impeccable work product. In descending order of elegance, you can-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a property management company.<\/li>\n<li>Process payroll through an S corporation if you already have that deployed.<\/li>\n<li>Consider them a contractor, and issue a 1099-NEC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your children are going to take your money anyways- might as well make it tax-advantaged, right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ab9157;\"><strong>Sidebar:<\/strong><\/span> We recently came across this phrase, and thought it was lovely- Either you fly first class, or your children will.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Getting_Money_Out_Of_The_Rentals\"><\/span>Getting Money Out Of The Rentals<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>As mentioned in our sections on retirement planning in a later chapter, net rental income (profits) is not subject to Social Security and Medicare taxes unless you are operating a hotel or providing substantial personal services. This might not seem like a big deal, but when we consider payroll taxes later, you might be creating additional taxes unnecessarily (keep reading).<\/p>\n<p>The next hurdle is how to get the money out of the rental property itself. What can be done? Two options in reference to paying your children to work on the rental properties-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a property management company, or<\/li>\n<li>Pay them directly from the rental property checking account, either processing payroll or paying them as a contractor (both of these options have problems as we will discuss).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The next hurdle is that your child or children must be doing actual work at a compensation rate that is reasonable. $100 an hour to pick up pine needles might be excessive.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Create_A_Property_Management_Company\"><\/span>Create A Property Management Company<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This is the most elegant option since you can a) scale this arrangement across multiple rental properties, and b) use the same arrangement to fund additional retirement accounts for you and your children such as a 401k plan.<\/p>\n<p>How does this work? You would charge your rental properties a management fee that is usual and customary. 5-10% for long-term rentals, and perhaps 20-40% for short-term rentals. This is paid like any other management fee where money is paid from the rental property checking account to your management company checking account.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ab9157;\"><strong>Sidebar:<\/strong><\/span> You can be a rockstar, and act like a real property manager and collect the rents directly, take your commission or fee, and transfer the remainder to the rental property checking account to pay remaining bills such as mortgage loan payments, property taxes, and typical expenses.<\/p>\n<p>The management company could also provide direct chargeable services such as advertising, picking up pine needles, licking stamps and other cleaning and maintenance services. From there, payroll accounts are set up and payroll is processed with paystubs, W-2s, etc. Yeah, real payroll. One children, a gaggle of children. One employee, or a SWAT team. Proper payroll processing is the same.<\/p>\n<p>For single-member limited liability companies (LLCs) or sole proprietors, if your child is under the age of 18, the business does not have to pay typical employment taxes such as Social Security and Medicare. You can also avoid unemployment taxes until the child turns 21. But for S Corps and C Corps, Social Security and Medicare taxes are paid regardless of age (we discuss this again later).<\/p>\n<p>This is akin to the family management LLC concept that we discuss in our tax reduction strategies article. You can read it here-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/6177\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more in our tax reduction strategies guide<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Property_Management_Problems\"><\/span>Property Management Problems<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>However, the property management option quickly creates two potential problems-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Depending on your state and regulated industry rules, you might have to register your management company. This might be extreme, right? You could also consider the payments from the rental properties to your basic LLC as consulting fees, cleaning services or contract maintenance and repair expenses, and not property management as a workaround.<\/li>\n<li>You might easily run into a situation where your property management fee or services fee creates a rental loss. However, that loss might be limited based on passive activity loss limits (see our section on page 104). Sure, you can reduce this with the wage expenses from paying your children and Yes, your passive activity losses will eventually offset future rental profits or release upon sale, but be aware of the corner you might be painting yourself into. And if Johnny or Suzie is being paid to paint, then this becomes a bit ironic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Payroll_Processing_Problems\"><\/span>Payroll Processing Problems<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>There are four problems with processing payroll-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The cost of processing payroll can be $800 to $1,200 annually depending on the payroll processor such as Gusto, ADP, Paychex, Intuit, etc. This might go away if you already process payroll through an existing business (we talk about S corporations in a bit).<\/li>\n<li>If your child or children are 18 years or older, Social Security and Medicare taxes must be paid at 15.3% of the wages paid.<\/li>\n<li>Payroll is another headache to add to your already long list of headaches. The IRS is fairly chill, but states can be a big pain in the butt. Texas, piece of cake. Ohio? Complete nightmare with local cities and school district taxes. Check out your own paystub and see what nutty taxes are being withheld by your employer- that is a decent barometer of what you\u2019ll need to handle for paying your children to dust the end tables and replace lightbulbs.<\/li>\n<li>Where do you put the payroll processing system? If you don\u2019t do the property management, family management LLC or contractor \/ consulting idea above, then you typically will process payroll from the rental property itself. This doesn\u2019t scale since payroll accounts are tied to an Employer Identification Number (EIN). One rental, one LLC, one EIN. Sure, one rental property could lend your child to another rental property (employee leasing) but that is unnecessarily messy. Alternatively, one LLC can own several rental properties but most real estate investors like compartmentalization if they can.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Tax_Savings_Of_Employing_Your_Children\"><\/span>Tax Savings Of Employing Your Children<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The juice must be worth the squeeze, right? The tax arbitrage is real as we discussed above, but the math comes from the difference between the parent\u2019s tax rate and the \u201ccosts\u201d of processing payroll including payroll taxes such as Social Security and Medicare.<\/p>\n<p>One child earning $7,000 might not be worth the effort whereas $15,700, which is the standard deduction for the 2026 tax year, might be. Consider the following table-<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 80%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&lt;18 Years Old<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>18+ Years Old<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Wages<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">15,700<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">15,700<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Payroll Taxes<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">0<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">2,402<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Payroll Fees<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">800<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">800<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Total &#8220;Costs&#8221;<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">800<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3,202<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Mom &amp; Dad&#8217;s Savings @24%<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3,768<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3,768<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Net Savings<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">2,968<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ab9157;\"><strong>566<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Mom &amp; Dad&#8217;s Savings @35%<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">5,495<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">5,495<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Net Savings<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">4,695<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">2,293<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>As you can see, employing your 19-year-old college student when you are in the 24% marginal tax bracket, might not be worth the effort. The $566 bolded above might not push your needle or blow your hair back. Two kids, ages 15 and 17, might make the effort worthwhile especially if you are in the 24% marginal tax bracket or higher.<\/p>\n<p>There are also some parental pleasures beyond the dollars and cents such as having your children contribute to a Roth IRA at an early age. Imagine your 15-year-old contributing $7,000 annually to a Roth IRA. When they are 25 years old, they would have $70,000 in contribution basis to be used for a home purchase. Or they could let it ride for another 40 years and have a healthy nest egg towards retirement.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Equal_And_Opposite_Reaction\"><\/span>The Equal And Opposite Reaction<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>There are several things at play when considering employing your children with your rental properties. First, and as mentioned earlier, your children must actually work, and this is the biggest bone of contention with the IRS. Consider that a $30 an hour job would need 500 hours or about 10 per week to achieve $15,000 in wages. So, get that squared away and be reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the pay must be consistent, and the pay must be usual and customary to what you pay others for similar work. Basically, you need to treat them like any other employee or service provider to avoid trouble. Lastly, you need to keep detailed records such as timecards and job descriptions (of course you do!). This must be perceived as an arms-length relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Another issue to consider is support and claiming them as a dependent. If your child is going to college and you are paying them to work at the family business or on the rental property, for you to claim them as a dependent you must provide over half of the their support. This includes the amounts spent to provide food, lodging, clothing, education, medical and dental care, recreation, transportation, and similar necessities.<\/p>\n<p>This creates an interesting conundrum. If your child earns $30,000 working for the parents, but socks all the money away into savings while you continue to pay over half of the support such as rent, food and education, you can still claim them as a dependent. Nice, right?<\/p>\n<p>Many states also have labor laws that dictate the age your child can work, even if employed by the parents. For example, Indiana allows a 14-year-old to work with a permit. Minors under 14 may work as newspaper carrier, golf caddy, domestic service worker in a private residence (sounds like chores) or farm laborer. Minors under 12 in Indiana can only be farm laborers. Again, in Indiana, there is no need for a work permit if the work is outside school hours of 7:30AM to 3:30PM. We bring these examples to light so you understand and check your state or local laws about hiring your kids.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WCG CPAs &amp; Advisors<\/strong> will not process payroll for any child under the age of 12 unless there are special circumstances. For example, we have a client who has twin 9-year-old daughters who do quite well recording Tik Tok videos. We continue to be amazed at how people make money, and what the public is willing to pay for the efforts. But we digress.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Education_Credits\"><\/span>Education Credits<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>You can also create some tax due to take advantage of the American Opportunity Tax Credit (AOTC). Huh? You, the parents, make too much money and cannot take advantage of the AOTC education credit. But Johnny or Suzie, with a little bit of tax due on their 1040 tax return from a $30,000 salary (for example), can get all the tax back as a credit plus the refundable portion.<\/p>\n<p>There are some things to navigate through such as claiming them as a dependent, the work needed for a $30,000 salary, etc. but it is something to consider.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Add_Your_Children_To_Your_S_Corporation\"><\/span>Add Your Children To Your S Corporation<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Do you already have a business taxed as an S Corp and process shareholder payroll? Perhaps you have employees too. You might be able to create a business need for your rental properties to pay a consulting fee or pay for other services to your S corporation, and then process payroll for your children.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are some pitfalls. If you are paying them through an S Corp, you must also pay Social Security and Medicare taxes at 15.3% regardless of age. Therefore, your marginal tax rate needs to be 22% or higher for this to make sense (see table above). How much sense? 6% difference in taxes multiplied against $15,000 is $900.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Considering_Your_Children_Independent_Contractors\"><\/span>Considering Your Children Independent Contractors<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Calling your children independent contractors, paying them directly and issuing an eventual 1099-NEC is problematic on two fronts-<\/p>\n<p>First, to truly be a contractor they must generally hold themselves out to the public as someone in that line of work, trade or profession. Here is the verbiage from Colorado, <strong>WCG CPAs &amp; Advisors<\/strong>\u2019 home state-<\/p>\n<p>service performed by an individual for another shall be deemed to be employment, irrespective of whether the common-law relationship of master and servant exists, unless and until it is shown to the satisfaction of the division that such individual is free from control and direction in the performance of the service, both under his contract for the performance of service and in fact; and such individual is customarily engaged in an independent trade, occupation, profession, or business related to the service performed.<\/p>\n<p>What Colorado is basically stating is that all services performed are presumptively deemed employment (i.e, as an employee, and not as a contractor) unless you prove otherwise. Many states are similar.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s say you can prove that your children hold themselves out to the public as lawn mowers by mowing other lawns besides the rental properties. Good! However, as independent contractors being paid as a 1099-NEC, they will pay self-employment taxes of 15.3% (which is essentially Social Security and Medicare taxes). 12 years old. 22 years old. It doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n<p>The silver lining of being an independent contractor is the ability to deduct business-related expenses on Schedule C of the 1040 tax return (or business entity tax return such as a partnership or S corporation). As you are painfully aware, a W-2 employee cannot deduct mileage and other expenses against their W-2 income since 2017.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Mom_And_Dad_your_parents\"><\/span>Mom And Dad (your parents)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The concepts above could also be applied to supporting your parents. There could be some scenarios where paying them a salary makes sense as well. Other sources of income and tax brackets all need to be considered, of course.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Summary_of_Paying_Your_Children_From_The_Rental\"><\/span>Summary of Paying Your Children From The Rental<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>We covered a lot in this section, and as you can see there are a ton of considerations. To repeat ourselves, there are three basic ways to compensate them for their amazing cleaning, painting and social media talents. In descending order of elegance, you can-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a property management company. As mentioned, however, this can create some new problems with state registrations and licensing unless you call it something else, and only provide services such as cleaning and maintenance.<\/li>\n<li>Process payroll through an S corporation if you already have that deployed. The concerns here are creating a business connection between your rental properties and your S Corp, and the additional payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare.<\/li>\n<li>Consider them an independent contractor and issue a 1099-NEC. 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Advisors,<\/strong> a boutique yet progressive tax, accounting and <\/em><em>rental property consultation and real estate CPA firm with over 90 team members and 7 partners headquartered in Colorado serving real estate investors worldwide.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; justify-content: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jason-watson-cpa\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17327 entered lazyloaded\" style=\"height: 35px!important; width: auto!important;\" src=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/linkedin-150x150-1.png.webp\" alt=\"Jason Watson CPA LinkedIn\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:jason@wcginc.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-17334 entered lazyloaded\" style=\"height: 35px!important; width: auto!important;\" src=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mail-150x150-1.png.webp\" alt=\"Jason Watson CPA Email\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<style><\/style>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]\t\t\t<div class=\"info-box-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"wd-69d3e2e584de8\" class=\" wd-rs-69d3e2e584de8 wd-info-box wd-wpb text-left box-icon-align-top box-style- color-scheme- wd-bg-none border-btm-title img-right kb \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"info-box-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"info-box-title title wd-font-weight-800 box-title-style-default font-primary wd-fontsize-m\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"I_Just_Got_A_Rental_What_Do_I_Do_2026_Edition\"><\/span>I Just Got A Rental, What Do I Do? 2026 Edition<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"info-box-inner reset-last-child\"><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-100749 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Web-and-Social-GFX-2026_300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"360\" \/>This KB article is an excerpt from our 530+ page book (yeah, thick, there are some picture pages, but no scratch and sniff) which was <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>updated April 5, 2026<\/strong><\/span>, and is available in paperback from <a href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/amazon-rental\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a>, as an eBook for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kindle-rental\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kindle<\/a>\u00a0and as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/pdf-rental\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a>\u00a0from ClickBank. We used to publish with iTunes and Nook, but keeping up with two different formats was brutal. You can cruise through these KB articles online, click on the fancy buttons below or\u00a0<a href=\"\/business-services\/book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit our webpage<\/a>\u00a0which provides more information.<\/p>\n<table class=\"purchase-table\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/amazon-rental\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6657 aligncenter\" style=\"float: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/amazon-imageresized.png.webp\" alt=\"I Just Got A Rental, What Do I Do? 2025 Edition | Amazon version\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/kindle-rental\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6658\" style=\"float: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kindle-imageresized.png.webp\" alt=\"I Just Got A Rental, What Do I Do? 2025 Edition | Kindle Version\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/pdf-rental\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6659 aligncenter\" style=\"float: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/PDFresized.png.webp\" alt=\"I Just Got A Rental, What Do I Do? 2025 Edition | PDF version\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>$32.95<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>$21.95<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>$18.95<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<style><\/style>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]\t\t\t<div class=\"info-box-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"wd-68e97e561482c\" class=\" wd-rs-68e97e561482c wd-info-box wd-wpb text-left box-icon-align-top box-style- color-scheme- wd-bg-none border-btm-title img-right kb \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"info-box-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"info-box-title title wd-font-weight-800 box-title-style-default font-primary wd-fontsize-m\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Rental_Expert_Pod_the_REP\"><\/span>Rental Expert Pod (the REP)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"info-box-inner reset-last-child\"><p>WCG's tax team structure is built around Pods \u2014 small, agile groups of tax professionals (4-6 total) who embrace team camaraderie while achieving client intimacy. 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