Short-Term Rental Accounting — Know What Each Property Really
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A short-term rental looks like easy money until you try to figure out what it actually earned.
Platform payouts arrive in lump sums with fees, cleaning charges, and taxes already taken out. Occupancy taxes have their own filings and deadlines. Cleaning, restocking, repairs, and supplies hit different cards on different days. And at tax time, the question of whether it's a business, a rental, or a hobby changes everything about what you can deduct.
We keep books for Airbnb and VRBO hosts, property by property. Each listing gets its own income and expense tracking — platform payouts reconciled to actual bookings, cleaning and turnover costs, supplies, repairs, utilities, and management fees. Occupancy and lodging tax filings are handled. And we help you get the tax treatment right, including the rules that decide whether your rental income is passive or active, which changes what you can deduct against your other income.
One property or ten, self-managed or with a manager, send us a message. Tell us how many listings you run and on which platforms.