Most short-term-rental hosts leave a five-figure first-year deduction on the table because nobody tracked the hours, the average stay, or the depreciation. RentReel tracks all of it from your reservations and hands your CPA a Schedule E they file straight from.
A cost-segregation study plus 100% bonus depreciation can front-load a big chunk of a rental's value into year one. Put your numbers in and see the rough size of the deduction you may be sitting on. Then track it for real.
No signup to run it. When you're ready, start free and RentReel keeps the receipts, hours, and Schedule E behind it.
Illustrative, using typical assumptions.
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Create a free account, no card, and RentReel tracks the hours, receipts, and depreciation that turn this estimate into a Schedule E your CPA files straight from.
Your data is never sold. Signed partners: Steadily and Uplisting. Built by a 5-property operator.
Rough illustration using typical assumptions (≈80% of price is building, ≈25% reclassified to short-life property, 100% bonus depreciation, which applies to property acquired after Jan 19, 2025). Your actual result depends on a real cost-segregation study, whether you materially participate, and your full tax situation. This is not tax advice. RentReel keeps tax-ready books; your CPA files. Confirm with a licensed CPA.
RentReel runs the §469 material-participation test and the 7-night average-stay rule on your actual reservation data, the mechanics that can turn rental losses into an offset against your other income for qualifying operators.
Every booking becomes evidence toward the 750-hour REPS threshold. Cost-seg estimate, per-property depreciation, sourced numbers. Books built to survive a second look, not a shoebox in April.
A per-property Schedule E where Line 16 is Line 16. Drop a 1098 and it's read automatically. Share a read-only link with your CPA. Tax-ready books; they file.
Connect your bank or card and the transactions arrive on their own (Solo and above, through Plaid, your credentials never touch RentReel). Connect your PMS the same way, with your own read-only API key (Hospitable, plus Guesty and Hostaway in beta) and pull your bookings in with one click whenever you sync. No partner approval, no waiting list, no reformatting. Uplisting connects natively. Everything else, including OwnerRez and Lodgify, imports as a CSV export. Your bank and card can connect directly on Solo and above, so the transactions arrive on their own, and statements still import if you would rather not connect anything. RentReel splits revenue, host fees, cleaning, and taxes per property, tracks occupancy tax, and keeps every entity separate.
A five-screen interactive tour and every feature grouped, no signup to look.
RentReel is run on the founder's own five rentals and a handful of operators building their books on it now.
SW Oklahoma Retreats · early operator on RentReel
Hickle Homes LLC · early operator on RentReel
The free tools stop at a Schedule E built for a long-term rental. The STR "tax" trackers hand your CPA a PDF and call it done. RentReel is the only one that does the full books and the STR tax layer and the filing-grade export your CPA works from, in one place.
Free is a real plan, not a countdown: one property, full books and a Schedule E, for as long as you want it. Every plan starts with 14 days of the tier you pick, no card. We never auto-bill: when the trial ends you land on Free, and one property keeps working. A bigger portfolio turns read-only, never deleted, until you pick a plan. Annual billing is 10× monthly ($390 / $790 / $1,290 a year), about two months free.
Not a support ticket. I built this and I run five short-term rentals myself. Send me your property list and I will have the whole structure built before we talk, so you spend the call looking at your own numbers instead of typing names into a form. It is the slowest part and there is no reason it should be yours.
Email me and I will do it →Tiers are priced on how many properties you run, because that is what actually scales the work we do for you. Every plan includes the tax layer — we are not going to charge you more to get your return right. Solo costs about what QuickBooks Simple Start does. The difference isn’t the price — it’s that a general ledger records transactions, and RentReel connects short-term-rental operating facts to the tax file.
The guides behind the product, written for operators and checked against current law.
The state, county, and city stack every rental sits under, read from your address.
Read → ChecklistWhat to square away before year-end so filing is a non-event.
Read → PlaybookThe 7-day gate, material participation, and how the first-year deduction works.
Read →Run the free estimate, then start free with no card. Tax in every plan, from $0.
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