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Where to enter Short Term Rental Cleaning Expenses (between guests)?

We have a short term rental. A portion of income from rentals goes directly to cleaning between rentals. That's a 100% expense (unlike say, mortgage interest which is based on a percentage of personal use).

When I enter the cleaning expense total, it's lumped in with HOA maintenance expenses and being allocated as percentage. The area on TT is "

Enter your cleaning and maintenance expenses

Total up all cleaning and maintenance expenses and enter them below."

Obviously the cleaning we paying for between guests does NOT go here. But...where do I enter it, then? Under Misc? I'm confused about that because under MISC it notes, "must be safe harbor" or something and now I am more confused. 

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PatriciaV
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Where to enter Short Term Rental Cleaning Expenses (between guests)?

When you report personal days for a vacation rental, TurboTax will allocate all expenses between the rental and personal use. 

 

Since the personal use expenses have no effect on the rest of your return, you may consider grossing up the expenses that you need to allocate 100% to the rental days. To do this, divide your actual expense by the percentage of vacation use. Enter this for the expense and confirm the result is what you expect. Be sure you have good evidence that none of these expenses benefited the personal use of the rental.

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