AIrBnB rental reporting clarification?

[LP1968]

I offered  my house (for the first time) on airBnB from April 8 to April 27 last year. It was eventually rented for just 5 days (of these 20 days).  How best should i report this using Turbotax (Premier)? 

More specifically: 

1) when Turbotax asks me  to report how many days was the property rented for, do I input 20 or 5? 

2) when Turbotax later asks me to report my property tax, mortgage interest, and utilities, do I report the amount for the entire year (because Turbotax will  prorate the amounts accordingly)? or should I calculate the amount of these expenses that corresponds to the 20 (or 5) days, and enter only that amount? 

3) since this the first time i had this property on AirBnB, when Turbotax asks me in the very beginning if "i converted this property to rental for the first time in 2019"  do I check the box (reporting that I converted)? or not (because it was only for a few days)?   

Please advise. Thanks in advance! 

[Carl]

Duplicate post.

Since you only had a renter in the property for less than 14 days for the entire tax year, I wouldn't bother converting anything. Simply report your 5 days worth of rental income as miscellaneous income and be done with it. No SCH E is needed and you don't have to deal with all that crap of converting the property to rental and back to personal use in the same tax year. (That's a *REAL* pain with TurboTax).  Of couse when you do this, you can't claim any expenses against that income. But so what? It's only 5 days of rental income. Another $1000 give or take, is not going to break you tax-wise.

[Critter · Accepted solution]

If the personal residence was rented for less than 14 days the entire year then NOTHING needs to be reported ... no income nor expenses... just enjoy the extra income.