Cost segregation for Airbnb
and short-term rentals

Two tests decide it. First, the average guest stay has to be 7 days or less. Second, you have to materially participate, which usually means more than 100 documented hours a year and more than anyone else who works on the property. Meet both and the IRS may treat the rental as non-passive, so its losses can offset your W-2 income. Your CPA confirms whether you qualify. Our study gives them the depreciation numbers to act on. Read more on the 7-day rule and material participation.

Yes. Every component is listed individually, with its quantity, cost source, and valuation. For a furnished short-term rental that means beds, sofas, appliances, window coverings, and decor, each on its own line as 5-year property. That is where a furnished rental pulls ahead of an empty one: more identified components means more of your basis moved into short-life classes and deducted in year one.

Please do. After you book, we email you a short checklist: a closing document, photos, and your appraisal and inspection report if you have them. Your listing link is the ideal photo source because it shows the property furnished and staged, room by room. Send the link and we take it from there. If you also have an inspection report from closing, include it. It lists appliance makes, models, and ages that let us itemize more.

Tell us, and we account for it. When furnishings come with the purchase, they are part of what you paid, and the study identifies and values them from your photos and documents like any other component. If you furnished it yourself afterward, send the receipts. Improvements placed in service in a different year are scheduled separately, with the right convention for each, at the same flat fee.

Any time before your CPA files. Bonus depreciation on the short-life assets the study identifies is claimed for the year you place the property in service, and it is 100% for property acquired and placed in service after January 19, 2025, so ordering before year-end tax planning gives your CPA the most room to work. We deliver in 3 to 5 business days, so there is no need to order months ahead. Bought it in an earlier year? A look-back study catches up on the depreciation you missed.

Yes. The platform does not matter and neither does the property type, as long as it is held for rental use rather than as your personal residence. Single-family homes, condos, townhomes, cabins, and multi-unit properties all qualify. For a condo, the study covers the unit and what you own inside it. How condos are handled.