You could be depreciating drywall in Ohio. Or you could be sipping Sancerre in a 400-year-old estate while the French state pays for your new copper roof. Monument Historique tax breaks aren’t a rumor. They’re the cheat code for capital that wants ROI and rococo.

$300K gets you 18 bedrooms, tax perks, and an existential renovation crisis. Or, y'know, a closet in Manhattan.