Course 1.4 · 50 minutes
Short-Term Rentals: The Loophole Done Right
Use a short-term rental to create deductible losses without real estate professional status, and keep it out of the traps that turn it into a hobby or a self-employment tax bill.
- Who it is for
- Owners and buyers of vacation rentals, and W-2 earners who want a first investment property.
- Runtime
- 50 minutes · Headliner course
Pre-order: this course is in development and appears in your portal the day it is released. Buy 5 or more and every course is 30% off.
Instant download after payment. Nothing is withheld for a later purchase.
What you receive
- Average Stay Calculator Guide.
- Schedule E vs C Decision Tree.
- Year One Tax Plan Checklist.
- Slide deck.
- Visual: Roadmap.
- Visual: STR Path Flowchart.
- Visual: Average Stay Math.
- Visual: Material Participation Tests.
- Visual: Services Ladder.
- Visual: Personal Use Calendar.
- Visual: Cost Seg Buckets.
- Visual: Year One Example.
- Visual: Before After Comparison.
- Visual: Traps Decision Tree.
- Visual: Year One Timeline.
- The narrated lesson. 50 minutes, cued to the deck, with chapter markers by lesson. Emailed to you the day it publishes, at no extra cost.
What the course covers
- 01Why a short-term rental is not a rental activity under the passive rules: the seven-day and thirty-day tests8 min
- 02Material participation for a short-term rental: the 100-hour test and the more-than-anyone-else test7 min
- 03Schedule E or Schedule C: substantial services and self-employment tax6 min
- 04Personal use days, the allocation rules, and the fourteen-day rule6 min
- 05Cost segregation and bonus depreciation on a short-term rental5 min
- 06Worked example: buy in November, place in service in December, offset 60,000 dollars of wages8 min
- 07Tricks of the trade: self-managing year one, cleaning and turnover logs, and average-stay math5 min
- 08Mistakes and traps: management companies, co-hosts, lodging taxes, and personal use3 min
- 09Action plan and recap2 min
How it fits: Headline course. Requires 1.1 and 1.2. Alternative path to 1.3.
The standard every course holds
- A narrated lesson of 45 to 60 minutes, produced as audio
- A designed slide deck you download and keep
- A computational workbook that runs the actual legal tests
- A toolkit of checklists and protocols
- A legal authority appendix carrying the two-pass vetting protocol
Written for a diligent reader with no legal education. Professionally narrated using a studio voice model of Brian T. Boyd. The course is recorded instruction, not a live consultation.
Where this course sits
Track 1: Real Estate
This course is one step in a track built around a single outcome. See the full build order and the other courses that get you there.
Back to this trackEducational material from the private client curriculum of Brian T. Boyd. This is legal education for a general audience, not legal advice, and no attorney-client relationship is created by purchasing, viewing, or using it. Tax outcomes depend on your facts and your state.