@Jayson Greenblatt  Rent do vary, we are mostly in A & B areas, maybe a few C+, we aren't looking in D or E areas.

Thus since in both cases you as a short-term landlord are merely providing basic services to your short-term guests (and receiving passive income in return), I would think this meets the requirements for Schedule E and I would think that you can report the income on Schedule E even if you don't own the property, thus avoiding the 15.3% self-employment tax?

I would retract the document (hopefully you are using an e-sign technology to make it simpler) and create a month to month lease option with $x increase.

Have tanent who paid rent for continuous 3 months ( June - sept) in 2023 but didn't pay rent for rest of the year and didn't leave the house and end up with eviction process, so for rest of 3 months of the year we didn't receive the rent.So in Schedule E form.

e) something else?

E.  

I've seen a few houses that list as 3/2 requiring substantial rehab, but could probably become 4/2 with the right plan. 

As a rough approximation, you can expect E TN gross annual rental revenue to be around 15-20% of purchase price at most price points & home sizes.

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