Tracking Hours For STR

[Matthew Kauk]

First this community is amazing!

My question is if I'm not a real estate professional, but own an STR that fits inside the STR loophole. How do I track my material hours on my investment property in order to take depreciated losses against my W2 income.

What is the best way to track my hours to make sure I get to 100 hours and more then anyone other person involved in the STR? At the end of the day do I show up with my CPA and say here's the hours I worked?

Or can we assume an estimate if this is my only "job".

Finally, if I had a cleaning company and they have 10 people who clean. Can I request 10 different people for 10 different cleanings so no one person works more then me?

[John Underwood]

Do you self manage?

If so start with logging your hours every week.