00:00While your apartment value triples, the government lets your landlord pretend it is literally rotting away.
00:06This legal fiction allows them to claim their building loses value every single day on paper.
00:11The tax code allows owners to deduct the cost of a building over 27 long years.
00:17This massive write-off creates a paper loss that cancels out the actual profit they earn.
00:23They call this depreciation, a phantom expense that exists only to hide their rental income.
00:29You pay income tax on your labor, but their assets are protected by this artificial decay.
00:34Your monthly rent check becomes pure profit that is shielded from the federal income tax.
00:40The money enters their pocket, but the IRS sees only a failing and depreciating asset.
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