What Is a Short-Term Rental?
A short-term rental is a furnished residential property rented to guests for stays shorter than 30 days, typically booked through a platform such as...
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Short, direct definitions of the terms used in short-term rental investing: the STR loophole, cost segregation, ADR, RevPAR, cap rate, and whether Airbnb income counts as passive.
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Short-term rental questions, answered directly
What Is the Short-Term Rental Loophole?
The short-term rental loophole is the combination of two tax rules that lets a rental property's paper losses offset wage and business income. When a...
Is Airbnb Passive Income?
No. Operationally, a short-term rental is an active business with 60 to 120 guest turnovers a year. For tax purposes the word means something...
Can Airbnb Losses Offset W-2 Income?
Yes, if two conditions hold at once. The property's average stay across the year must be seven days or less, which removes it from the passive rental...
What Is Cost Segregation?
Cost segregation is an engineering-based study that breaks a property's purchase price into components and reassigns them to shorter depreciation...
What Is ADR in Short-Term Rentals?
ADR stands for average daily rate. It is total accommodation revenue divided by the number of nights actually booked, and it measures pricing power...
What Is RevPAR?
RevPAR stands for revenue per available rental night. It is average daily rate multiplied by occupancy, or equivalently total revenue divided by...
What Is a Good Cap Rate for an Airbnb?
Short-term rental cap rates commonly land between 6 and 10 percent, higher than long-term rentals because the operating burden is higher. But cap...
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