Erik Oliver More than a decade inside cost segregation, translated for real investors.

Erik Oliver has spent more than a decade helping real estate owners understand one of the least intuitive parts of property ownership: how their buildings are depreciated for tax purposes. Before joining Maven as Director of Client Solutions, he held senior national roles at a major specialty-tax firm and built a reputation as an educator to investors, CPAs, and real estate professionals.

His specialty is not simply knowing the rules-it is translating them. Erik can take a discussion about asset classes, passive-loss limitations, bonus depreciation, Form 3115, or recapture and explain why it matters to an owner in practical terms. That has made him a frequent podcast guest and conference speaker across the real estate, short-term-rental, and tax communities.

Erik is also comfortable discussing the limits of the strategy. He regularly addresses who should not perform cost segregation, why generating a deduction and using one are different issues, why the owner’s CPA remains critical, and why a study should be evaluated as an investment decision rather than purchased because someone saw a viral tax video.