Tracking work hours

You already track your hours. You just don't know it.

Every email to a contractor, every drive to a property, every call with a tenant. That's deductible time. RE:Writeoff gives you four ways to capture it.

Inbox Auto-Scan

We find it for you

CC & Forward

From any email provider

Manual Entry

Log it yourself

Voice Note

Say it, we log it

01

Auto-fetch from your inbox

You already did the work. Let us find it.

Connect Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, or Yahoo and we pull every property-related email automatically. Maintenance requests, tenant messages, vendor invoices, insurance notices. Hours you already spent, documented without lifting a finger.

Email being sent
  • Works with Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo, Fastmail, or any IMAP inbox
  • Read-only access. We never send, delete, or modify your emails
  • First scan covers the current tax year, so nothing from January gets lost
  • After that, only new messages sync (no duplicate work)

Best for: investors who manage primarily through email

02

CC or forward emails

When you'd rather not connect an inbox at all.

CC your dedicated RE:Writeoff address on emails as you send them. That's it — zero extra steps. Forgot? Forward it later. We handle duplicates automatically, so you'll never double-count.

Getting notified
  • Each portfolio gets a unique address: [email protected]
  • Works with any email provider: Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, anything
  • CC while you work, or forward after the fact — both work
  • Duplicates are detected and merged automatically. CC and forward the same email? No problem

Best for: investors who want selective capture or prefer not to share credentials

03

Quick log in the app

Thirty seconds now saves hours at tax time.

Drove to a property? Took a call with your contractor? Open the app and log it. No email needed, just what you did, how long, and which property. Those in-person hours count too.

Reading documentation
  • Structured entry: activity type, property, duration, notes
  • Entries are classified and time-stamped just like email-sourced activities

Best for: in-person activities that don't generate emails

From here, we take over

However an activity gets in (email, forward, or quick log), the same thing happens next.

Analyzing documents

We sort it for you

Every activity, whether from auto-fetch, CC, forwarded email, or a quick log, gets categorized by IRS activity type. Repairs, tenant screening, bookkeeping, travel. You review and adjust; we do the sorting.

Reaching your goals

Your receipts, stored and linked

The original emails, attachments, and notes are stored encrypted and tied to each activity. If the IRS ever asks "prove it," you hand over a file, not a shoebox.

Organizing your schedule

Watch your hours add up

Each activity gets a time estimate. Your dashboard tracks progress toward the 750-hour threshold in real time. When your CPA asks for a summary, you export it in seconds.

You’ve already lost 140 days of undocumented activity this year.

Connect your email and RE:Writeoff will scan back to January — every hour we find is money at tax time.

Start capturing. See what you've been missing.

Most people start with auto-fetch. It takes two minutes. First qualifying activities appear within five minutes. Forwarding and manual logging are there whenever you need them.

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How Email-Based Hour Tracking Works | RE:Writeoff