For equipment costing up to $ 500,000, your company can treat it as a business expense in the year that it was bought. (entrepreneur.com)
Even though you may run your business out of the home, it's important to still treat it as a business. (kanetix.ca)
You must know evaluate how important this relationship is to you and if you want to treat it as a business relationship then ask for him to front the cost. (biggerpockets.com)