REP Helper Teams is a free app for your cleaners, co-hosts, handymen and property managers. They log their time and photos from their phone, and each entry lands on the right property in your account.
Free for invited team members · Up to 5 team members on Starter, 10 on Professional, unlimited on Elite
Your 750 hours, the 50% test and your material participation use your own hours, plus your spouse’s for material participation.
IRC §469(c)(7) · §469(h)(5)
The 100-hour and “substantially all” tests look at everyone who works on the rental. A busy cleaner, co-host or manager can out-work you, so you need to show you did more than anyone else.
Treas. Reg. §1.469-5T(a)(2), (a)(3)
Decide which test you rely on with your CPA, and keep your crew’s hours on record either way.
123 Main St · 2026 · Example
Hours by person
You
Owner
Maria
Cleaner
Carlos
Handyman
More than 100 hours, and not less than anyone else. Only your 142 hours count toward the test. Maria’s and Carlos’s logs show nobody did more.
You decide who logs and where. Your crew does the rest from their phone.
Add a cleaner, handyman or property manager by email and choose the rentals they work on. REP Helper enforces it, so nobody can log to a property you didn’t share.
Invite a team member
Role
Properties they can log
Time, a few words that AI turns into a clear description, and up to three photos or receipts. One tap picks the nearest property.
Log activity
turnover, linens, restock, bath photos
Each one is tagged by person and property, in your activity log and your reports. You see who did what without asking for it.
REP Helper Teams · free
Turnover clean
123 Main St · 9:10 – 11:40 AM
Your record · 123 Main St
Maria added 2.5 h
Tracked so you can prove you did more than anyone else.
Message your crew in REP Helper, with photos attached, instead of a text thread you’ll never find again.
123 Main St · Messages
The patio door lock is sticking. Photo attached.
1 photoThanks Maria. Carlos is coming tomorrow at 10.
Got an invite from an owner? Download REP Helper Teams and sign in with the email address the invitation was sent to. It costs you nothing.
Work for three investors? One login shows all of them, each with their own properties.
You see the rentals you were invited to log, and nothing else of the owner’s.
Day, week and month views of everything you’ve logged.
One entry with time, notes and photos, instead of a text, a photo and an invoice.
iPhone and Android · The app opens with an owner’s invitation
Yes, for team members. They download it from the App Store or Google Play and join through your invitation. You need a REP Helper plan: Starter includes up to 5 team members, Professional up to 10 and Elite unlimited.
No. Your 750 hours, the 50% test and your material participation use your own hours, plus your spouse’s for material participation. The 100-hour and substantially-all tests compare other people’s hours with yours, and how hired cleaners and contractors count is debated, so choose the test you rely on with your CPA. Keeping your crew’s hours on record shows who did what.
Invite them to the free Teams app. Each entry they log lands on the property, tagged by person, so your records show the hours each cleaner, co-host, handyman or manager worked next to your own. That comparison is what the 100-hour test (more than 100 hours and not less than anyone else) and the substantially-all test turn on. How hired help counts is debated, so choose the test you rely on with your CPA.
Yes. One login shows every owner who invited them, and each owner sees only the work logged on their own properties.
No. They see only the properties you share with them, and REP Helper rejects entries for any other property. You can change their access or remove them at any time.
Time spent on a property, a description that AI can write from a few words, and up to three photos or receipts. They can also message you and see their own hours by day, week or month.
No. They use the Teams app for free when you invite them. Only the property owner needs a plan.
Invite your cleaners, handymen and managers, and keep every hour they log on the right property.