All Forum Posts by: Nancy Bachety

I use what John mentioned above on VRBO.^^

I think what you are asking is if those who uses a STR rental agreement have ever needed to enforce it because either airbnb/vrbo refused to support the host OR they skipped trying go through them for a claim.

Congratulations on your purchase. I don't, but love HHI. What condo association did you buy into that allows STR?

I’ll add that guests do not have to indicate if they are bringing a service animal nor provide any documentation. My auto reply asks if they are bringing any “animals/pets” to try to find out. 

There's an abundance of Time share resorts and longer than short term rentals on HHI. No matter where you look, start with regulations first. 

So it seems you are aware of the regulations? Plentiful for sure. 

First, check the regulations for STR.

@Greg O'Brien I believe we grouped them together, all of them. I’ll have to check, it was from 2019. All on schedule E. My logs are pretty good, actually. 
Copied from IRS pub 925 under material participation:

This is a fabulous post, thank you @Greg O'Brien. I am currently in talks with the IRS regarding this very topic, unfortunately. 
I think what muddy's the water is we have four LTR and three STR's. So we have legitimate rentals and we legitimately materially participate in the STR business too. I am about to submit to the IRS my log of 500+ hours working in the STR business, most of which come from communicating with guests, cleaners, maintenance people, Airbnb, VRBO, and managing supplies, shopping, bill paying, pricing, calendars, all the daily and weekly tasks. I'm excluding travel time to the property for the STR's.

Any words of wisdom regarding material participation that you referenced?

@Robert Finn Nice house. I just emailed you.