Business & farm

This whole thing sounds shady.  You are not renting your property to an uninterested party, you are renting it to yourself.  That seems pointless for one thing, since any expense you deduct on schedule E will be taxable to you on your personal 1040.

 

Are you thinking you could get a bigger rental expense deduction by charging a high rent, instead of taking a rather small personal deduction for business use of a personal computer (which would require documentation of the hours used in business, for example)?

 

What are you actually trying to do?  If you have a large enough rental business, why not just buy a cheap PC to manage it, and deduct or depreciate that as a business asset?   I don't like the idea that you can somehow charge yourself rent on your own personal property and come out ahead.