Upload your bank statements. Get your Schedule E in minutes, not weeks.
Built for Airbnb and VRBO hosts who are tired of spending two weeks every April reconstructing their books from scratch.
Free to upload and categorize. No credit card required.
~10 min
avg time to Schedule E
$2,400
avg additional deductions found
100%
STR-specific tax rules
Every STR host knows this pain. You shouldn't have to live it every year.
Airbnb payouts, Amazon orders, Venmo cleaners, bank statements, email receipts, and your notes app. Every April it's a scavenger hunt.
They treat it like a regular rental — or worse, a business. You're missing deductions they don't know to ask about.
One is deductible this year. The other has to be depreciated. Get it wrong and you're either leaving money on the table or inviting an audit.
Most STR hosts spend 10–20 hours on taxes. That's two full workdays you'll never get back, year after year.
Four steps. Forty minutes. Tax season done.
Works with Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, PayPal, Venmo, Airbnb, and virtually any bank. Supports CSV, Excel, OFX/QFX, and PDF — no manual entry.
Our STR-trained AI maps each expense to the correct Schedule E line — repairs vs. capital improvements, mileage, insurance, utilities — all correctly classified.
See every transaction with its category. Override anything with one click. The Deduction Advisor catches patterns you'd miss — missing mileage, insurance, utilities.
Get a clean PDF ready to hand to your CPA or file yourself. Per-property breakdown, every line mapped. Done in minutes.
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STR tax stuff is confusing. Here's what we get asked most.
Schedule E (Form 1040) is the IRS form for reporting rental income and expenses. If you rented your property for more than 14 days in the tax year, you almost certainly need to file it. HostBooks builds your Schedule E automatically from your transactions.
Upload your bank statement CSVs (most banks export these), your Airbnb/VRBO payout reports, and any credit card statements used for the property. HostBooks supports CSV, Excel, OFX, and PDF formats.
Repairs (fixing a broken fixture, patching drywall) are immediately deductible. Capital improvements (new roof, HVAC, full renovation) must be depreciated over time. Getting this wrong is one of the most common STR audit triggers — HostBooks flags these for you.
Yes. HostBooks tracks each property separately and generates a per-property Schedule E. Pricing is per property per tax year.
HostBooks gives you a CPA-ready Schedule E package — organized, accurate, and mapped to the right lines. Many hosts file it themselves. If you use a CPA, you'll hand them a clean document instead of a shoebox of receipts, which usually cuts their fees significantly.
Your CSV files are processed locally in your browser — they never touch our servers. Any data you save is encrypted at rest with AES-256. We don't sell or share your data with anyone.
Flat-rate tax prep, per property. No subscriptions, no surprises.
One-time per tax year
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