>>You can include the maintenance days as rental days.<<
This doesn't sound right. Pub. 527 keeps using the phrase, " ...total days rented to others at a fair rental price." Under this definition of rental days, maintenance days would not be included. It matters, because it will change the ratio of rented-to-personal-use-days. In my understanding, maintenance/repair days simply do not count toward anything in the figuring of deductible expenses on a rental property.
