@Critter-3 thank you, there are many of these freelance people providing services, i hire them for cleaning the tenant room ($25 for bed&bathroom) and also making dinner for tenant ($5 per meal), these are all ways to attract tenant for renting, you know it is hard to rent out a room:(.
so totally i spend $150 per month for these services, which is about $1800 per year. but these are all cash deal with no receipt, the best to get is a hand written on paper like "i receive $xxx from xxx for service xxxx on day xxxx". will that count as a receipt by IRS?
so if i deduct these amount, and got audited by IRS that i had no real receipt to proof, so what will happen? does it really worth the risk of being audited to deduct $1800 expense?
thanks.
