Investors & landlords

If you want to go into the topic of how Lodging taxes on short term rentals are paid by Airbnb etc to the tax authorities of your state, here's some information you might be interested in because the bottom line it's your responsibility your property is properly paying the state, city, county taxes. https://www.avalara.com/mylodgetax/en/blog/2018/04/understanding-how-airbnb-tax-collection-happens-o...

 

The only point to take away from this information for this thread OP is how to discern whether your property use is a short term rental or not regarding where to report on the Federal 1040, schedule C or E and what to do with the 1099-K you will get for online electronic rent payment processing which could include non rental transactions too like PayPal.  It's going to be a fun tax year just be careful to do your own research on the rules because you will ultimately be responsible for the accuracy of your filing not Turbo Tax or even a CPA.