Investors & landlords

With a personal sublet situation, is there an issue with profit motive with using Schedule E?  maybe that is why Turbotax avoids the issue by only dealing with situations where someone is the owner and is renting to make a profit, not offset rent expenses otherwise owed as tenant on main lease.  See IRS Pub. 527, p. 16 re: Not Rented for Profit.  If this is a concern and I am not missing something, it becomes of particular concern in 2018 to individual sub-letters since not even Itemized Deductions would be available