Who it's for
Serious investors who'd rather be investing than logging hours.
Three kinds of investors use RE:Writeoff every day. Different goals, same pain: proving to the IRS that the hours they worked actually happened.
Want a number before you self-identify? Our savings calculator estimates what REPS qualification would save you based on your property count, income, and tax bracket.
Persona 1
Chasing Real Estate Professional Status
You have a W-2 job and a growing rental portfolio. You've heard about REPS — the 750-hour threshold that reclassifies rental losses from passive to non-passive and lets them offset your W-2 income — and you want in. The tax savings are real: $15,000 to $50,000+ a year for a 5–10 property investor. But so is the IRS's scrutiny. They require contemporaneous records of every hour you claim.
The pain
You work on your rentals every week, but you have no system to log hours. Maybe a half-filled spreadsheet. When April comes you try to reconstruct what you did, and it always comes up short. Worse, everything you do reconstruct is self-reported — the weakest form of documentation the IRS accepts.
How we help
RE:Writeoff finds 70% of your REPS hours automatically from your inbox. You log the rest — phone calls, drives, site visits — in five seconds. Every hour is source-linked to an email, receipt, or entry the moment it happens. When the auditor asks, you click one button and hand them a full audit log.
Persona 2
Running short-term rentals
You run 1 to 10 Airbnbs or VRBO properties. The “STR loophole” lets you treat rental income as non-passive if you materially participate — 500 hours, or 100 hours with no one else doing more. That unlocks the same tax benefits as REPS with a lower bar. But Airbnb's messaging history doesn't count as a log, and “I remember cleaning a lot” isn't material participation evidence.
The pain
Every guest message, every cleaner coordination, every maintenance request, every price adjustment is deductible activity — but it's scattered across Airbnb, VRBO, email, and text. There's no single place where it adds up, and the platforms won't give you an audit-ready export.
How we help
We scan your email for guest communications, vendor coordination, and platform notifications. Forward anything from Airbnb or VRBO to your RE:Writeoff track address — it lands in the same log, automatically classified and linked to the right property. Material participation, documented from day one.
Persona 3
Protecting your Schedule E
You're not chasing REPS this year. You just want clean, defensible records of every deduction you've been taking — so if the IRS ever audits your Schedule E, you can point to a trail instead of a shoebox. Peace of mind and a better night's sleep before tax season.
The pain
You have receipts in 12 folders, rent roll in a spreadsheet, and activity “memory” as your only backup. Your CPA charges $150–300/hour to piece it together every April, and you wonder how much you're leaving on the table because you can't find the paperwork.
How we help
RE:Writeoff pulls every receipt, message, and log entry into a single source-linked trail — organized by property, ready for your CPA, exportable as a full audit log. Your accountant does the interesting work (tax strategy) instead of the boring work (finding receipts). Bill goes down. Peace of mind goes up.
None of the above?
Start the trial anyway. 30 days free, no card. Connect a mailbox, see what we find in your first property. If the hours are there, you'll know in minutes.
Self-logged hours are always free. Pay only for what our AI finds.