For accountants & tax preparers
Your STR clients, audit-ready by April.
hostli keeps the material-participation hours, average stay and depreciation for your short-term rental clients all year, then hands you one audit file. You get a free seat and a referral fee.
Insights
Reports
The STR exception is easy to claim and hard to prove
The tax benefit is real. The evidence usually isn't there when you need it.
Clients claiming the short-term rental exception hand you a reconstructed hours log in March — if they hand you one at all.
You end up re-deriving the average period of customer use from Airbnb and Vrbo exports for every property.
Material participation turns on hours versus the cleaner and co-host, and nobody tracked theirs.
Cost-seg studies, bonus depreciation and placed-in-service dates arrive as separate PDFs and spreadsheets.
What you and your clients get
hostli reports figures and which tests they support. The determination stays with you.
A free accountant seat
Every STR Tax account includes a seat for you: your own login to the client's figures — no shared passwords, no exports by email.
Hours logged as the year happens
Clients log participation by property and person, with turnovers pulled from their bookings. Each entry shows when it was recorded, so you can see what's contemporaneous and what was backfilled.
Average stay, computed for you
Total nights ÷ stays per property per year, from the actual reservations, excluding cancelled and long-term bookings.
Warnings before year-end
Clients see their pace toward 100 and 500 hours, and are warned when a cleaner out-logs them or an average stay drifts over 7 days — while there's still time to fix it.
The audit file
One PDF per property and year: the determination figures, the dated activity log, third-party comparison, depreciation summary, sign-off and a fingerprint of the underlying records.
Schedule E and the CPA export
Schedule E organizer, depreciation schedules, loss-limitation worksheets and a QuickBooks export, alongside the audit file.
How the partnership works
- We set you up as a partner and give you a referral link.
- Clients start on the STR Tax plan and add you as their accountant — your seat is free.
- You see their figures through the year and download the audit file at tax time.
- You earn a referral fee for each paying client you bring. We'll walk through the terms on a short call.
Talk to us about partnering
Tell us about your STR client base. We'll show you an audit file built from sample data and set up your partner account.