750 Hours a year

[ceharris11]

I actively manage my 3 rental properties along with my full time non real estate job.  I do all the maintenance, I look for tenants, screen tenants, I do everything.  I keep records of everything I do.  When I select the 750 hours a year actively involved in real estate it comes back and says I don't qualify.  Any reason why not and if it did allow me what benefit would I have received?

[MinhT1]

Spending more than 750 hours in real estate alone is not sufficient to qualify as a real estate professional. You need to pass all the following four tests.

In TurboTax, you need to check both boxes saying that you spend more than 750 hours a year actively involved in real estate and that you spent more than 50% of your work-related time involved in real estate.

You are a real estate professional if all of the following are true:

 - You materially participated in a real property trade or business.

 - More than half of your time is involved in real estate activities during the year.

 - You materially participated for more than 750 hours in this business.

 - You materially participated in each rental real estate activity.

As a real estate professional, you can deduct losses from real estate activities against your ordinary income. This can potentially help reduce your overall tax liability.