Mostly retired 20 years ago, I was a tech founder/exec in Silicon Valley and San Francisco, I had a career in tech that began when I was in high school. I'm now an investor with a portfolio of commercial and residential real estate assembled over the past couple of decades, mostly really in the past decade. So far we've been buying to rehab or develop then hold to lease. One cool property we are in the development planning on right now is an old San Francisco firehouse that's likely to become a mixed use development when it's completed with residential over commercial. This is our first one of those.
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I bought our first Tesla, a Model S P85+ in Feb 2014, taking delivery in March. At the time I ordered the S I also put down a $40k deposit for a Signature Edition Model X. While we waited for the Model X to go into production, which finally happened in 2016, somewhere along the way I decided I'd rather the company make a few tens of thousands of them, then a hundred thousand of them before I had them make that one for me, so I put off ordering mine a while. I didn't really want to be a beta tester by having them build for me one of the first few hundred X vehicles. I finally pulled the trigger to have them build that Signature edition X (P90DL) in late 2018 (only now that means its a fully spec'ed X P100DL) Nothing like being fashionably late to a product launch.
I bought our Model X to be our company car. Using the IRS Section 179 rule which I heard about either here or on the Tesla forum made the car 100% deductible in the first year it was placed in service. For us that was the last few weeks of 2018, we took delivery around Thanksgiving. The only vehicle Tesla currently sells that's easily (and obviously) qualified under Section 179 for the fully accelerated first year 100% depreciation is the X, due to its large-enough size > 6000 lb GVWR.
For those with a small business, Section179 makes buying a qualified business vehicle a great proposition. The deduction continues to be valid in tax year 2019, with the fully accelerated deduction of the entire vehicle in the first year of service. "Talk to your CPA / tax preparer to see if IRS Section 179 is right for you!" See also:
Section 179 Tax Deduction for 2019 | Section179.Org
We still own that original Model S and it will continue to be our personal-use vehicle, (now a/k/a "the wife's car.") I'm planning on buying a 2020 Roadster for myself, seems like 2020 will be a good time for a mid-life crisis sports car purchase. I'm now in my early 50s. I won't wait four years this time before I have them build that Roadster for me.
