Accurate compliance for real estate investors
Annual Form 1040 and state return preparation with the rental activity treated as an important part of the overall return—not an isolated schedule.
About Johnny Lujan, CPA
A CPA practice built around the tax decisions rental-property owners actually face.
Alpine CPA Services is a virtual CPA firm based in Colorado Springs and focused on individual real estate investors. The work centers on Form 1040 tax preparation, planning when there are real decisions to make, and focused real estate tax projects.
Licensed Colorado CPA8 years as a licensed Colorado real estate professionalIndividual investor focusFully virtual
Johnny Lujan, CPAOwner, Alpine CPA Services
The CPA behind Alpine
A tax perspective informed by real estate experience.
Before focusing on tax, Johnny spent eight years as a licensed Colorado real estate professional.
That background does not replace technical tax research. It helps him understand the transaction behind the tax form: how a property was acquired, placed in service, financed, improved, rented, used personally, converted, exchanged, or sold.
For a rental owner, those facts can drive the tax result. Alpine was built so real estate is not an occasional Schedule E added onto a general tax practice. It is the core context for the work.
Why the practice is narrow
Real estate tax issues get primary attention here.
Depreciation, passive activity, STR material participation, cost segregation, mixed personal use, conversions, sales, and 1031 exchanges are recurring parts of the practice—not side topics.
Alpine focuses on the individual investor's Form 1040 and the way rental activity interacts with the rest of the household tax return.
Planning when there is something to plan
Planning is added when timing, income, purchases, property use, depreciation, or transactions create decisions worth addressing during the year.
Focused work for focused problems
When the issue is discrete—such as cost segregation, a conversion, sale, 1031 exchange, material participation, or depreciation remediation—it can be scoped as a separate project.
The goal is not to sell the biggest engagement.
Alpine recommends the smallest complete scope that addresses the tax work the facts actually require. If preparation is enough, planning is not added simply because you own rental property.
How Alpine approaches the work
Tax strategies only matter if they fit the facts.
Real estate tax advice can sound simple online. In practice, the result often depends on ownership, use, participation, placed-in-service timing, depreciation history, household income, prior reporting, and state rules.
Facts before conclusionsDocuments and actual activity come before a personalized tax position.
Judgment before “tax hacks”A deduction or strategy is useful only when the client actually qualifies and the economics make sense.
Clear scopePreparation, planning, and technical projects are separated so clients know what is—and is not—being handled.
CPA-led relationshipJohnny retains responsibility for the judgment-heavy parts of the engagement and the client relationship.
A focused firm by design
Alpine owns the individual investor tax relationship.
The firm is intentionally not a full-service bookkeeping, payroll, lodging-tax, and entity-return shop.
Alpine generally does not prepare partnership or S corporation returns. When an entity return is required, another CPA can prepare that return while Alpine handles the individual Form 1040 and, when separately scoped, coordinates the information needed on the individual side.
Colorado SpringsHome base
Fully virtualSecure remote delivery
Individual taxForm 1040-centered practice
Real estateSTR, LTR & residential investors
See whether the fit is right
Tell me a little about your tax situation and rental activity.
The Fit Assessment takes about 2–3 minutes. I’ll review it personally and determine whether Alpine appears to be a fit before we spend time on a call.
