Anomaly CPA

07/20/2026

Yes, you can hire your child to work in your business.

But “they’re family” is not a tax strategy.

The job still needs to be real.

The work needs to be age-appropriate.

The pay needs to be reasonable.

And the business still has to follow the employment rules that apply to minors.

That is the part most business owners skip.

They hear the strategy online and assume it is as simple as moving money to their child and calling it payroll.

It is not.

State law matters.

The type of work matters.

Documentation matters.

Entity structure matters.

A parent’s sole proprietorship may be treated differently than an S corp or C corp.

Done correctly, this can be a legitimate way to involve your child in the business, teach responsibility, and create earned income.

Done casually, it can become a compliance problem.

Comment FAMILY and we’ll walk through what business owners should review before putting a child on payroll.

07/17/2026

The same trait that builds the business can also test it.

Greg does not casually work on Anomaly.

He pours himself into it.

The hours.

The decisions.

The pressure.

The responsibility.

The constant desire to make it better.

That level of commitment is part of what built the firm.

But in a growing business, intensity has to mature.

Because when a founder cares that much, the work can become personal.

Every problem feels heavier.

Every decision carries more weight.

Every standard matters.

That is where partnership becomes important.

Not to reduce the ambition.

To help channel it.

To create balance, perspective, and enough trust to work through the moments where the founder’s greatest strength also creates friction.

The best businesses are not built by people who care less.

They are built by people who care deeply and learn how to carry that responsibility well.

Comment TEAM if you know what it feels like to build with someone who gives everything to the mission.

07/16/2026

07/15/2026

Your books can look clean while your runway is already shrinking.

That is the problem with accounting built only for tax filing.

It may record what happened.

But it does not always show what the founder needs to decide next.

A third of startup failures cite running out of cash or failing to raise capital.

And many founders do not realize the issue early enough because their financials are not built to show:

• True gross margin
• Actual net burn
• Current runway
• Recurring versus non-recurring revenue
• Cost of revenue versus operating expenses
• Where cash is moving across product, sales, marketing, and G&A

The accounting method matters too.

Cash-basis books may feel easier, but they can make margins and burn look cleaner than they really are.

Accrual accounting gives founders and investors a more accurate view of performance.

Example:

A B2B SaaS startup thinks it has 18 months of runway.

On cash-basis books, net burn appears to be $150K.

After rebuilding the financials on an accrual basis, true net burn is $200K.

Runway is actually 12 months.

That six-month gap did not appear when the company ran out of cash.

It was already sitting inside the accounting.

Better books do not change reality.

They reveal it early enough to adjust hiring, spending, and fundraising before the problem becomes urgent.

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07/15/2026

Anomaly did not start with a client list.

It started with one clear question:

Who do we actually want to serve?

Greg had no book of business.

No acquisition.

No built-in pipeline.

No shortcut.

So he got specific.

Young, growing companies.

Startups.

Entrepreneurs.

Founders building in real time.

Then he went where they were showing up first:

New business filings in Massachusetts.

He pulled lists.

Found websites.

Tracked down emails.

Reached out directly.

And landed Anomaly’s first three clients by doing the work most people skip.

That is the part of entrepreneurship that does not look glamorous.

But it matters.

Before the brand, the referrals, the demand, or the scale, there is usually a founder willing to create momentum manually.

The strategy was not complicated.

It was clear.

Targeted.

Consistent.

That is how zero turns into the first signal.

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07/14/2026

Your kids believe what they watch more than what you say.

You can tell them to chase their passion.

To help people.

To make an impact.

To work hard.

To build something of their own.

But the lesson lands differently when they get to see it.

When they see dad doing the work.

Taking the risk.

Showing up consistently.

Building something with purpose.

That is the part Greg and John think about as fathers and founders.

Not just telling their kids what is possible.

Showing them.

Because more is caught than taught.

And the example your children see every day may become part of the way they understand work, leadership, service, and impact.

The business is not just what you build.

It is what your family watches you become while building it.

Comment LEGACY if you are building something your family can learn from.

07/13/2026

Legacy is not just what your kids inherit.

It is what they watch you build.

For Greg and John, building Anomaly CPA is not only about creating a business that may one day create opportunities for their families.

It is about showing their kids what those opportunities are built on.

Hard work.

Leadership.

Discipline.

Responsibility.

The ability to do difficult things without losing sight of what matters.

Maybe one day their children become part of the business.

Maybe they do not.

But either way, they get to see the example now.

And that may be the most important part.

Because founder legacy is not only measured by what gets passed down later.

It is shaped by what your family sees every day while you are building.

Comment LEGACY if you are building something your family can learn from, not just benefit from.

07/10/2026

Cost segregation can create big losses.

But that does not mean you can use them wherever you want.

That is the part many high-income real estate investors miss.

A cost segregation study may accelerate depreciation and create a meaningful rental loss.

But if that loss is passive, it generally will not offset W-2 wages or active business income.

It sits.

It carries forward.

It waits for passive income or another event that allows it to be used.

That matters for households earning $600K–$800K in active income.

Because the issue is not that cost segregation “doesn’t work.”

The issue is that cost segregation alone may not solve the problem driving the tax bill.

REPS can change the equation.

But only when the qualification and material participation requirements are actually met.

Cost seg creates the loss.

REPS and material participation determine whether that loss can reach the income you are trying to offset.

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07/09/2026

Building a business while building a family is not simple.

But for John, family is not separate from leadership.

It shapes it.

As a father of three, he talks about the challenge of growing a company while also being present at home.

There is pressure.

There is juggling.

There is no perfect balance every day.

But there is also motivation.

Because the things you practice at home — patience, responsibility, consistency, care — do not stay at home.

They show up in how you lead a team.

How you make decisions.

How you handle pressure.

How you build something that matters.

For founders, family is not a distraction from the business.

It can be one of the reasons the business is worth building.

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07/09/2026

Your values shape the way you lead your business.

A lot of founders think leadership is only about strategy.

Revenue.

Hiring.

Systems.

Ex*****on.

But the way you make decisions usually comes from something deeper.

What you value.

What you protect.

What you refuse to compromise.

That shows up in how you lead your team.

How you serve your clients.

How you handle pressure.

And how you build when no one is watching.

A business does not just reflect its model.

It reflects the person leading it.

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