For example, if, in an 18 hour waking period, you spend 2 hours snooping through the AirBNB, writing down the makes and models of appliances, figuring out the distribution of the mini shampoos and inventorying how many cooking supplies your hosts are providing and the thread count of the sheets, then an auditor might allow you to take 10% of your total trip expenses as a deduction.If, however, in an 18 hour waking period, you spend 6-8 hours per day interviewing Hosts, researching which properties would make good AirBNBs, researching the local laws, touring properties, meeting with an agent and vigorously pursuing your next acquisition, you'd have a MUCH better case for writing off your travel expenses (but probably not your lift tickets and equipment rental).If, on the other hand, you are traveling and on vacation and just hang out in your AirBNB without actually performing any activities, then the odds that an auditor will allow any deduction at all is pretty minimal.In any audit, it would be up to you to document the business purpose of your trip.  

@Richard Cook Awesome man i'm at Columbus!

Thanks,Brad Cook

Yep, purchased in Cook County of IL.

We were told it would be a "process" and were told to remove any and all food, cooking products, plates, glasses, pots, pans (anything we cook with or eat on) from the kitchen until the problem was taken care of - approximately 2 months!!

Joe Massey, Castle & Cook Mortgage, Denver. https://www.castlecookemortgage.com/location/denver/

They help with daily needs...cooking, cleaning, dressing, bathing, etc., and do not, per se, offer medical services except for when the appropriate licensed folks come to the home.

In cook county its $365,700$468,150$565,900$703,250for a single, 2 unit, 3 unit and 4 unit complex respectively.

It's not major money, and it's probably worth a lot more to him than  it is to you, especially now he also needs to go to the grocery store and deal with the mess, and he won't be able to cook things. 

My last tenant was a smoker unbeknownst to me, and a lot of the smell dissipated when I cleaned a large sliding glass door with a mirror finish.