https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/investments-and-rental-properties/discussion/short-term-rental-avg-stay-lt-7-days-showing-as-passive-in-turbotax-online-how-to-mark-non-passive/01/3792701#M128942 My STR averages 2.1 nights per booking (10 stays, 21 nights total). I materially participated. TurboTax Online is treating it as passive and suspending the loss. I was never asked about average stay length. How do I properly classify this as non-passive? Is this only possible in Desktop? Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:32:25 GMT CMCLLC 2026-02-21T18:32:25Z https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/investments-and-rental-properties/discussion/short-term-rental-avg-stay-lt-7-days-showing-as-passive-in-turbotax-online-how-to-mark-non-passive/01/3792701#M128942 My STR averages 2.1 nights per booking (10 stays, 21 nights total). I materially participated. TurboTax Online is treating it as passive and suspending the loss. I was never asked about average stay length. How do I properly classify this as non-passive? Is this only possible in Desktop? Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:32:25 GMT https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/investments-and-rental-properties/discussion/short-term-rental-avg-stay-lt-7-days-showing-as-passive-in-turbotax-online-how-to-mark-non-passive/01/3792701#M128942 CMCLLC 2026-02-21T18:32:25Z https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/investments-and-rental-properties/discussion/re-short-term-rental-avg-stay-lt-7-days-showing-as-passive-in-turbotax-online-how-to-mark-non/01/3792715#M128944 <P><a href="https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/729456">@AmeliesUncle</a>&nbsp;?? [he has dealt with this scenario previously]</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I believe that you need to mark a box in Forms Mode which is not available in the online versions.</P> Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:37:17 GMT https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/investments-and-rental-properties/discussion/re-short-term-rental-avg-stay-lt-7-days-showing-as-passive-in-turbotax-online-how-to-mark-non/01/3792715#M128944 M-MTax 2026-02-21T18:37:17Z https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/investments-and-rental-properties/discussion/re-short-term-rental-avg-stay-lt-7-days-showing-as-passive-in-turbotax-online-how-to-mark-non/01/3793467#M128976 <P>As M-MTax said, the last I saw, TurboTax is NOT set up for that.<BR /><BR />The only way around it is to use the desktop/downloaded version and go to the "Forms" mode to manually check the box on the "Schedule E Wks" for "Other Passive Exceptions".</P> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 01:05:34 GMT https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/investments-and-rental-properties/discussion/re-short-term-rental-avg-stay-lt-7-days-showing-as-passive-in-turbotax-online-how-to-mark-non/01/3793467#M128976 AmeliesUncle 2026-02-22T01:05:34Z https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/investments-and-rental-properties/discussion/re-short-term-rental-avg-stay-lt-7-days-showing-as-passive-in-turbotax-online-how-to-mark-non/01/3810080#M129480 <P>Will manually overriding to mark as “other passive exemptions”, create audit risk?&nbsp;</P> Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:45:28 GMT https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/investments-and-rental-properties/discussion/re-short-term-rental-avg-stay-lt-7-days-showing-as-passive-in-turbotax-online-how-to-mark-non/01/3810080#M129480 user17723906719 2026-03-01T18:45:28Z https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/investments-and-rental-properties/discussion/re-short-term-rental-avg-stay-lt-7-days-showing-as-passive-in-turbotax-online-how-to-mark-non/01/3810222#M129489 <BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><a href="https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4171524">@user17723906719</a>&nbsp;wrote:<BR /><P>Will manually overriding to mark as “other passive exemptions”, create audit risk?&nbsp;</P><HR /></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Who knows? It's possible, though, particularly if you have a large loss.</P> Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:47:40 GMT https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/investments-and-rental-properties/discussion/re-short-term-rental-avg-stay-lt-7-days-showing-as-passive-in-turbotax-online-how-to-mark-non/01/3810222#M129489 M-MTax 2026-03-01T19:47:40Z