Ted Lanzaro

Ted Lanzaro is a Certified Public Accountant, real estate investor, author, and founder of Landmark CPA Group, LLC, who has spent more than 35 years helping real estate investors and business owners make better financial decisions through proactive tax planning.

Throughout his career, Ted has worked with thousands of investors and entrepreneurs, giving him a front-row view of the mistakes that quietly cost people money. Again and again, he has seen investors wait until tax season to think about tax, treat their CPA as someone who simply reports what has already happened, or make major buying, ownership, and exit decisions without considering the tax implications until the opportunity to plan has passed. His philosophy is simple: the most valuable tax decisions are usually made long before a return is filed.

As the author of Year-Round Tax Planning for Real Estate Investors, Ted is passionate about changing the way investors think about tax strategy. Rather than treating tax as an annual compliance exercise, he shows how it can become part of the wider decision-making process around cash flow, entity structure, acquisitions, short-term rentals, syndications, holding strategies, business growth, and eventual exits.

What makes Ted’s perspective particularly practical is that he understands real estate from both sides of the table. He knows the technical rules as a CPA, but he also understands the pressures, trade-offs, and opportunities investors face because he is an investor himself. This allows him to translate complex tax concepts into clear conversations about protecting income, building wealth, improving financial visibility, and avoiding preventable mistakes.

Ted is now using the release of the updated edition of his book as the foundation for a broader mission to educate real estate investors and give them better tools for managing the financial side of their businesses. Through podcasts, conferences, webinars, and educational initiatives, he challenges investors to stop asking what they can do at tax time and start asking what they should be doing throughout the year.

As a podcast guest, Ted brings more than three decades of pattern recognition, real-world examples, and straight-talking insight into real estate taxation, wealth building, proactive financial planning, and the decisions that can ultimately determine how much of an investor’s success they actually get to keep.