The Most Complete REPS & STR
Platform for Rental Investors
REP Helper is the AI-powered platform that helps rental investors track hours, document activities, capture trips, and monitor every major REPS and STR Material Participation test from one secure place.
Real-Estate Professional Status
In Progressof the 750h goal (70% achieved)
Need >50% of work time
Material Participation Progress
In Progressof the 500h goal (75% achieved)
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Bring in Your REPS & STRHours and See the Difference
Already tracking your hours in a spreadsheet or time tracking app? Now you can import them into REP Helper from CSV, Excel, or Google Sheets and see exactly where you stand across every test that matters.
Most trackers focus on the 750-hour test and stop there. REP Helper gives you a more complete view by tracking the 50% test, STR material participation, the 100-hour test, the 500-hour test, and substantially all participation.
Once your hours are imported, keep building stronger records with features only available in REP Helper:
- Travel Time Logging to capture rental-related driving time
- Gmail Auto Sync to turn rental emails into activity records
- REP Helper Gmail Add-on to create qualifying hours directly from Gmail
- Performance Hub to monitor your progress across REPS and STR tests
- Intelligence Hub to identify gaps, risks, and missing documentation
- Collaboration with your spouse, team members, and CPAs
- Professional reports you can download, print, and share with your tax advisors
Move your existing records in. Then use REP Helper to track what other tools miss.
already on the books — the moment your hours move in.
Introducing Travel Time Logging:Your Helper for Capturing and Documenting Real Estate Travel Time
Capture rental-related trips, turn travel time into documented activities, and build more complete records for
REPS and STR Material Participation — with privacy controls designed specifically for rental investors, all in one app.
Capture Rental Trips Automatically
Drive between properties, vendors, and offices — the app records each qualifying trip in the background, no manual logging.
Turn Travel Time Into Activity Records
Every saved trip becomes a structured activity with date, distance, duration, and purpose — ready for your hour log.
Capture More Qualifying Hours
Drive time you used to forget about now counts toward your 750h and material participation totals.
Built from the Ground Up for Privacy
You decide when tracking is on. Trips stay in your account, never shared, never sold, never monetized.
Avoid Paying for Other Mileage Apps
No more $10–$15 a month for a separate mileage tracker. Travel Time Logging is built right into REP Helper.
Give Your CPA Cleaner Records
Connected mileage, hours, and supporting evidence in one export your CPA can actually audit.
Keep Travel Time, Hours, and Evidence Together
Trips, receipts, calendar events, and emails all live alongside the activity records they support.
Review, Keep, or Discard Every Trip
Approve trips with one tap, edit details when needed, or discard the ones that aren’t qualifying.
It Takes a Team to Run Your Rentals.Now It Can Log the Hours Too.
Invite the people who keep your rentals running, your cleaners, handymen, and property managers, to log the time they put into your properties. Their hours flow straight into your records, building a fuller and more credible account of every hour worked.
Invite your team
Send an invite from your REP Helper account to cleaners, handymen, property managers, and other service providers.
Logs from the Teams app
Service providers record completed services, time spent, and evidence from the free REP Helper Teams mobile app.
Grow more complete and credible
Every logged activity connects to the right property and strengthens your REPS & STR documentation.
When Your Whole Team Logs, Everyone Wins
Bringing the people who work on your properties into the logging does more than save you time. It strengthens every record behind your REPS and STR position. Here is what a true team effort unlocks.
A complete picture of hours
Capture the work done on a property by everyone, not just the hours you log yourself.
Sharper material participation
See your hours alongside your providers’ to know exactly where you stand on the 50% and material participation tests.
One connected ecosystem
Owners and providers work in the same system, so every qualifying hour lands in the right place.
Audit ready credibility
Contemporaneous, third party records add real weight to the documentation you’d present to the IRS.
Share the logging load
Stop logging every hour yourself. Your team records the work as they complete it.
Stronger provider relationships
Providers stay connected and ready for repeat work, already set up to log for your properties.
REP Helper Teams is invitation only. It’s a separate mobile app built solely for service providers. Your team can only join when you invite them, and they use it free. You keep working in the main REP Helper app.
The Only Platform Builtfor the Full REPS & STR Tracking
All rental hour trackers focus only on the 750-hour test. But qualifying for REP status takes two tests, 750 hours and the 50% rule. The 50% rule is non-negotiable. REP Helper is the only platform designed to track every REPS test and every major material participation test for LTR and STR investors.
The audit liability.
- 750-hour test
- 50% rule
- 500-hour material participation
- 100-hour material participation
- Substantially all
- Grouping election
The complete platform.
- 750-hour test
- 50% rule
- 500-hour material participation
- 100-hour material participation
- Substantially all
- Grouping election — per property or all combined
Simplify Your Journey toREP Status
Five simple steps from setup to IRS Real Estate Professional qualification. REP Helper guides you every step of the way.
Set Up Properties
Add your rental properties in minutes. Long-term or short-term, we handle both.
Track Your Hours
Log your way—manual entry, bulk imports, email & calendar sync, voice notes, or snap a receipt and let AI do the rest.
Build Your Evidence
Every entry is documented with AI-generated evidence that satisfies IRS requirements.
Monitor Progress
Watch your real-time dashboard as you approach the 750-hour threshold.
Export Reports
Generate CPA-ready reports with one click when tax season arrives.
Set Up Properties
Add your rental properties in minutes. Long-term or short-term, we handle both.
Track Your Hours
Log your way—manual entry, bulk imports, email & calendar sync, voice notes, or snap a receipt and let AI do the rest.
Build Your Evidence
Every entry is documented with AI-generated evidence that satisfies IRS requirements.
Monitor Progress
Watch your real-time dashboard as you approach the 750-hour threshold.
Export Reports
Generate CPA-ready reports with one click when tax season arrives.
Powerful AI Features at Your Fingertips
Let intelligent automation handle the tedious work while you focus on growing your portfolio.
AI Activity Logger
Automatically scan your emails and calendars for qualifying real estate activities. Our AI identifies relevant events and logs them with supporting evidence.
Voice-Powered Entries
Simply speak to create detailed time entries. Our AI transcribes, categorizes, and logs activities hands-free.
Image-to-Time Estimates
Snap a picture of your work and get AI-estimated time for repairs, renovations, or property visits.
AI-Generated Descriptions
Skip the blank-page struggle. Our AI writes detailed, professional activity descriptions for you—saving time, improving clarity, and building stronger documentation for every entry.
AI Confidence Levels
Every AI-generated activity is rated high, medium, or low confidence so you know exactly when to trust it and when to double-check. No more blindly accepting suggestions—stay in control with full transparency.
What Is IRS Real Estate Professional Status?
IRS Real Estate Professional Status (REPS) is one of the most powerful tax benefits available to real estate investors. It allows you to reclassify rental income from “passive” to “non-passive,” enabling you to deduct rental losses — including depreciation — against your ordinary W-2 or business income. To qualify, the IRS requires you to meet these tests every tax year.
The 750-Hour Test
You must spend at least 750 hours per year working in real estate trades or businesses. Qualifying activities include property management, maintenance and repairs, tenant communications, lease negotiations, and administrative work like bookkeeping. The IRS requires a contemporaneous activity log — you need to document your hours as you go, not reconstruct them at year-end.
How the 750-hour and 50% tests workThe 50% Rule
More than half of all your working hours for the year must be spent in real estate activities. If you work 2,000 hours at a W-2 job and 750 hours in real estate, you fail — because 750 is only 27% of your 2,750 total hours. This is why many investors who claim REP status reduce non-real-estate work hours or time their qualification carefully.
Understanding the 50% ruleMaterial Participation
Beyond meeting the 750-hour and 50% requirements, you must also materially participate in each rental property or group of properties. The IRS defines seven tests to prove material participation — REP Helper supports the three most widely used: the 500-hour test, the 100-hour-and-more-than-anyone-else test, and the substantially-all test.
REP status vs. material participationWhat Is Short-Term Rental Material Participation?
Short-term rental properties with an average guest stay of fewer than 7 nights are treated differently by the IRS. Under the 7-day rule, these properties may be classified as non-rental businesses — which means STR owners can potentially deduct losses without REP status, but must prove material participation through one of the IRS tests below.
The 7-Day Rule: Which STR Properties Qualify
Only short-term rental properties with an average guest stay of fewer than 7 nights qualify for non-rental business treatment under IRS rules. This classification is what allows STR owners to deduct losses without REP status — but it must be proven with data. REP Helper automatically calculates your average stay length by syncing booking calendars from Airbnb, VRBO, and other platforms.
The 7-day rule explainedThe 500-Hour Test
The most straightforward path: spend at least 500 hours per year working on your STR properties. When properties are grouped together — an election you make on your tax return — your hours across all STR properties in the portfolio are aggregated, making this test significantly easier to meet for multi-property owners.
How the 500-hour test works for STRThe 100-Hour Test
You must spend at least 100 hours on your STR activities during the year, and your participation must be more than any other individual — including property managers, cleaners, and contractors. This test works well for hands-on owners who personally manage their properties but don't reach the 500-hour threshold.
Whose hours count toward this testThe Substantially All Test
The STR owner must show that they performed substantially all of the work for their properties — typically more than 90% of total hours. No other person, including employees, contractors, or property managers, can contribute significant hours. This test is ideal for solo operators who handle everything themselves.
STR material participation tests explainedEverything You Need toQualify and Thrive
Professional-grade tools designed to make your IRS REP qualification seamless and your property management effortless.
Short-Term Rental Tracking
Track hours for your entire STR team—cleaners, contractors, property managers. Everything you need to track and manage material participation in one place.
Family & Spouse Tracking
Unified dashboard for you and your spouse. Track progress side-by-side and maximize your household's real estate professional benefits.
Long-Term Rental Tracking
Effortlessly track the IRS 750-hour test, 50% rule, and material participation on the go. Our mobile app makes it easy and convenient to stay on top of your qualification—anytime, anywhere.
Professional Reports
Generate CPA-ready reports instantly. Export detailed activity logs formatted specifically for IRS compliance review.
Plus Everything Else You Need
Activity Timeline
Comprehensive view with smart filters
Manual Entry
Full control when you need it
Analytics Dashboard
Insights that drive decisions
Semantic Search
Find anything in seconds
Stay Ledger
Track average stay length for STR properties
Connect Your Workflow,Multiply Your Productivity
Stop wasting hours on manual entry. Connect your email and calendar once, and let AI capture every qualifying real estate activity automatically.
Eliminate manual data entry with automatic activity capture
Never miss a qualifying activity from your connected accounts
Reclaim your time with intelligent automation
Gmail
Sync work correspondenceSeamlessly import real estate emails from your Gmail inbox
Google Calendar
Capture scheduled eventsEvery real estate appointment in Google Calendar becomes a tracked activity
Outlook Mail
Sync work correspondenceSeamlessly import real estate emails from your professional inbox
Outlook Calendar
Capture scheduled eventsEvery real estate appointment becomes a tracked activity
Manage Your STR Portfolio,Classify with Confidence
Import booking calendars from your favorite platforms and let REP Helper automatically track guest stays and determine your property classification under IRS rules.
Stay Calendar Import
Import iCal feeds from Airbnb, VRBO, and other booking platforms to automatically track guest stays and classify your properties.
Track Average Stay
Automatically calculate average stay length for each property with a connected stay calendar
Rental Classification
Know if your property qualifies as a rental or non-rental business under IRS rules
Qualify with Confidence
Data-backed clarity on your STR status—no guesswork, no surprises at tax time
Loved by Real EstateProfessionals
Join thousands of investors and agents who are transforming how they track their path to REP status.
“This product has changed the way I manage my rental properties! It's intuitive and incredibly powerful for tracking IRS hours.”
“REP Helper saved me countless hours. The AI features for logging activities from my email and calendar are a game-changer for REP qualification.”
“Finally, a tool that understands the nuances of Real Estate Professional status. The reporting is exactly what my accountant needed. Highly recommended!”
Ready to Claim YourREP Tax Benefits?
Stop leaving money on the table. Let AI automatically track your real estate activities and build an IRS-compliant log that maximizes your deductions.
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