Before we get to our rundown of the very best knives for short-term rentals, let’s take a quick moment to understand why it’s so important to get this tricky detail exactly right. Sure, not everyone cooks when they’re on vacation but nearly everyone cuts something in the kitchen at some point during their stay. Stocking…
Vacation Rental Kitchen Essentials: Complete 2026 Checklist for Airbnb Hosts There’s nothing worse than paying full price to rent a high-end vacation rental home on Airbnb, and then discovering upon arrival that the kitchen is equipped like a Holiday Inn Express. In fact, The Kitchn revealed that travelers bring along all sorts of crazy kitchen…
Residential property investors often rely on their CPAs to track and calculate depreciation across their portfolios, but sometimes you just need a quick and dirty number to help inform an important decision. So we built this handy rental property depreciation calculator just for you. It uses a MACRS table to calculate a full depreciation schedule,…
When someone first tipped you off that owning rental property comes with significant tax advantages, you may not have realized that it also comes with some scary math. CPAs love to talk about depreciation as if it’s some sort of magical black box that you need an advanced degree to unlock. While depreciation schedules can…
It doesn’t matter if you operate a single Airbnb property or a growing portfolio of short term rentals. Setting up an Airbnb LLC might be the smartest thing you do all year. Here’s why… An Airbnb LLC can deliver significant benefits including: LLCs Taxed Like Sole Proprietorships In terms of tax treatment, a vacation rental…
While there’s no shortage of vacation rental tax deductions available in 2025, finding your way through the thicket of confusing regulations and guidance can be tricky. In this timely article, we break down the most significant opportunities the typical short-term rental property owner can pursue to reduce tax liability. For our purposes here, we’ll assume…
As a real estate investor, one of the biggest decisions you’ll make is whether to self-manage your rental properties or hire a property manager. And one of the most important questions to research in advance of this decision is, how much do property managers charge? The right choice at each moment in your investing journey…
There are quite a few options for collecting rent these days, but the fine print matters and all online rent collection methods are definitely not the same. There’s no point in owning property, fixing the boiler, or paying someone to mow the lawn if your tenant’s not going to pay you for the privilege of…
Experienced rental property investors know that landlord insurance not only helps you sleep at night, but is nearly always required by your lender. Historically, insurance premiums were a stable and predictable operating expense…but times have changed. Today’s wildly fluctuating premiums are often landing on ridiculous numbers that can significantly cut into cash flow. The encouraging…
Here’s a simple and powerful mortgage calculator that includes options to analyze the impact of points and fees. Modeling of interest-only loans is also supported. Just input your purchase price or current value, desired loan-to-value percentage, interest rate, amortization period, and other key inputs. Finally, tell the mortgage calculator whether you’ll pay upfront costs (points…