{"id":13649,"date":"2026-03-20T20:22:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/vacation-home-rules\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T21:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:40:21","slug":"vacation-home-rules","status":"publish","type":"epkb_post_type_3","link":"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/vacation-home-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacation Home Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 ez-toc-wrap-right counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table Of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/vacation-home-rules\/#Fair_Rental_Price\" >Fair Rental Price<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/vacation-home-rules\/#Personal_Use_Days\" >Personal Use Days<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/vacation-home-rules\/#Rental_Property_Expenses_Are_Limited\" >Rental Property Expenses Are Limited<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/vacation-home-rules\/#Tax_Court_Method\" >Tax Court Method<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/vacation-home-rules\/#The_Vacation_Rules_Steps\" >The Vacation Rules Steps<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/vacation-home-rules\/#I_Just_Got_A_Rental_What_Do_I_Do_2026_Edition\" >I Just Got A Rental, What Do I Do? 2026 Edition<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/vacation-home-rules\/#Rental_Expert_Pod_the_REP\" >Rental Expert Pod (the REP)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/vacation-home-rules\/#Talk_to_a_Real_Estate_CPA_About_Your_Rental_Property\" >Talk to a Real Estate CPA About Your Rental Property<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/vacation-home-rules\/#Schedule_Discovery_Meeting_Now\" >Schedule Discovery Meeting Now<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221; woodmart_inline=&#8221;no&#8221; text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;]<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31735 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/293554_2392945463_vacation_home_rules_300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" \/>By <strong>Jason Watson, CPA<\/strong><br \/>\nPosted Saturday, March 21, 2026<\/p>\n<p>It is common to have a second home that you rent out. It is also common to have a rental property that you use personally. It\u2019s all a matter of perspective, right? One of the biggest reasons to have a mixed-use rental property, or what the IRS would call personal use of a dwelling unit or vacation home, is to defray costs of ownership. Said in another way, a vacation home can be a nice split between current-day lifestyle enhancements and long-term wealth-building.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/publications\/p527\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IRS Publication 527 Residential Rental Property<\/a>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">You use a dwelling unit as a home during the tax year if you use it for personal purposes more than the greater of:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">14 days, or<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">10% of the total days it is rented to others at a fair rental price.<\/p>\n<p>If you trip these wires, the IRS considers the rental property (dwelling unit) a home. Why do you care about triggering these rules? If your rental property is partially considered to also be a residence (vacation home) then your expenses and therefore rental property deductions are limited. We\u2019ll dig into what this means including the Bolton Tax Court case in a little bit<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s review the calculations first. You rent the property to others at a fair rental price for 67 days. The calculation above then becomes the greater of 14 days or 6.7 days. As such, you can use the property for 14 days as personal use and not trip the vacation home rules.<\/p>\n<p>Another way to look at this- if you had 30 personal use days of your vacation home, then you would need to have rented it to others for 301 days or more. Why? You trigger the vacation home rules at the greater of 14 days or 10% of 301, or 30.1 days.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s take a step back. There are two immediate questions. What is a day of personal use? What is fair rental price?<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Fair_Rental_Price\"><\/span>Fair Rental Price<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This is typically not a tough question to answer. AirDNA, Airbnb and VRBO can quickly help determine the fair rental price for short-term stays. Zillow, Realtor.com and others can also quickly help with long-term leases. There are a zillion other tools that we are not mentioning. Here is the blurb from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/publications\/p527\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IRS Publication 527 Residential Rental Property<\/a>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">A fair rental price for your property is generally the amount of rent that a person who isn\u2019t related to you would be willing to pay. The rent you charge isn\u2019t a fair rental price if it is substantially less than the rents charged for other properties that are similar to your property in your area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Ask yourself the following questions when comparing another property with yours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Is it used for the same purpose?<br \/>\nIs it approximately the same size?<br \/>\nIs it in approximately the same condition?<br \/>\nDoes it have similar furnishings?<br \/>\nIs it in a similar location?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">If any of the answers are no, the properties probably aren\u2019t similar.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Personal_Use_Days\"><\/span>Personal Use Days<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>We have a deep dive section on <a href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/personal-use-of-your-short-term-rental\/\">personal use days with your STR<\/a>. However, here is a quick summary of the talking points-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The limit.<\/strong> Personal use days cannot exceed 14 days or 10% of the fair rented days, whichever is higher.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Repair days.<\/strong> Personal use days do not include days where you substantially full time doing repairs and maintenance including deep cleanings.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Improvement days.<\/strong> Days spent improving the property are neutral days, where they are not considered personal or rented days which makes sense. These days also should not be included in the denominator of any percentage use calculation. This is not supported directly by statute or regulations, but it is supported by reasonable logic that we discuss later.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Family rule.<\/strong> If you rent to your parents, siblings or children, even at fair market rental rates, these days are counted at personal use days unless the rental is being rented as a personal residence (think long-term).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Friends rules aka the Homie hookup.<\/strong> If you rent to your friends at below-market rental rates, those days will also be considered personal use days. Ensure money moves las if you rented to a perfect stranger, but then spring for dinner and drinks when they get back.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lifestyle benefit.<\/strong> Personal use days are not necessarily bad and can be piggybacked onto repair or improvement days to create a lifestyle improvement or vacation or the hip word \u201cworkation.\u201d For example, you spend 3 days painting, you can still enjoy sunsets and views of the lake after you put the paint rollers away. Tack on a few more days as personal days, and you\u2019ve create a decent getaway while remaining compliant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Again, see our <a href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/kb-rental-property\/personal-use-of-your-short-term-rental\/\">personal use of your short-term rental section<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Rental_Property_Expenses_Are_Limited\"><\/span>Rental Property Expenses Are Limited<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Let\u2019s say you\u2019ve determined that your personal use days exceed what is allowed and now vacation home rules apply. What are these silly rules anyway? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/26\/280A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IRC Section 280A(c)(5)<\/a> reads in part-<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">(5) Limitation on deductions<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In the case of a use described in paragraph (1), (2), or (4), and in the case of a use described in paragraph (3) where the dwelling unit is used by the taxpayer during the taxable year as a residence, the deductions allowed under this chapter for the taxable year by reason of being attributed to such use shall not exceed the excess of-<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">(A) the gross income derived from such use for the taxable year,<\/p>\n<p>The first thing to do is calculate the rental use portion of the total days the property was used. Here is a table from a live <strong><span style=\"color: #5d3fd3;\">WCG CPAs &amp; Advisors<\/span><\/strong> client-<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; width: 75%;\">Personal Use Days<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 25%;\">51<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; width: 75%;\">Rental Use Days<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 25%;\">105<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; width: 75%;\">Total Days of Property Use<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 25%;\">156<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; width: 75%;\">Rental Use Portion<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 25%;\">67.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; width: 75%;\">Personal Use Portion<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 25%;\">32.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>In this example, we will apply 67.3% to certain rental property expenses. However, there are several expenses that this rental use percentage will not be applied to-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mortgage interest and real estate property taxes, and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Those expenses that are 100% attributable to renting the property such as advertising, management fees, commissions, and guest-related cleaning and supplies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep in mind that you must count actual rental use days as opposed to taking 365 days and simply deducting your personal use days.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Tax_Court_Method\"><\/span>Tax Court Method<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Under vacation home rules, the personal use portion of mortgage interest and real estate property taxes are deductible on Schedule A of your Form 1040 (individual tax return). However, if your rental property tax deductions are going to be limited, you want the highest personal use portion to be applied to mortgage interest and property taxes.<\/p>\n<p>What do we mean here? Look at the table above again. In that example, the rental property was rented for 105 days which would suggest there are \u201c260 days-worth\u201d of mortgage interest and real estate property taxes attributable to personal use, or about 71.2%, and not 32.7%.<\/p>\n<p>The IRS would rather have you use the lower percentage since a higher amount of mortgage interest and property taxes would be applied to the rental and therefore limited under the vacation home rules (and in turn, not deductible). Consider this table-<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 60%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; width: 75%;\">Mortgage Interest<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 25%;\">20,238<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; width: 75%;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 25%;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; width: 75%;\">Personal Use Portion (IRS Method)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 25%;\">32.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; width: 75%;\">Amount Deducted on Schedule A<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 25%;\">6,616<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; width: 75%;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 25%;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; width: 75%;\">Personal Use Portion (Tax Court Method)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 25%;\">71.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; width: 75%;\">Amount Deducted on Schedule A<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 25%;\">14,416<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; width: 75%;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 25%;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; width: 75%;\">Difference<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 25%;\">7,800<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; width: 75%;\">Tax Rate<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 25%;\">37%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; width: 75%;\">Cash Savings<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 25%;\">2,886<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>This is a big deal, right? It was for Dorance and Helen Bolton who owned a rental property in Palm Springs, California. In <a href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/wp-content\/documents\/taxcourt\/Bolton.v.Commissioner.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bolton v. Commissioner, 77 Tax Court 104 (1981)<\/a>, the Tax Court stated-<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Interest is an expense that accrues ratably over the year and property taxes may likewise be regarded as being applicable to the entire year. The ordinary and normal method of determining what portion of interest is allocable to any part of a year would be to multiply the annual interest by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days in the period involved and the denominator is the number of days in the year. The same process would be employed in respect of real estate taxes. It was this method that petitioner used in applying the limiting provisions of section 280A(c)(5)(B).<\/p>\n<p>It continued to state-<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In taking a different view, the Government utilizes the identical computation specified in section 280A(e)(1), in which it compresses the annual interest and property taxes into the 121-day period that the property was used. But while that computation may serve a useful purpose in respect of the otherwise nondeductible maintenance expenses that are ordinarily associated with occupancy or use of the property, entirely different considerations are involved in respect of items such as interest and taxes that are spread over the entire year and are deductible in any event.<\/p>\n<p>What does all this mean? The Tax Court sided with Bolton who had basically computed a daily amount of mortgage interest and real estate property taxes, and deducted the amount associated with rental days from their rental income, and then deducted the remainder on Schedule A.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #a08750;\"><strong>Sidebar:<\/strong><\/span> The Commissioner (IRS) appealed, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in 1982 affirmed the Tax Court\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>As such, we now have a thing called the Tax Court Method and it is sometimes called the Bolton Method. A win for the taxpayer! The IRS really hated this loss. A lot.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Vacation_Rules_Steps\"><\/span>The Vacation Rules Steps<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>There is an iterative process to determining the eligibility to deduct certain rental property expenses. Worksheet 5-1. Worksheet for Figuring Rental Deductions for a Dwelling Unit Used as a Home from IRS Publication 527 Residential Rental Property walks you through the process. We will try to simplify it here-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Starting with gross rental income, deduct the allocated mortgage interest and real estate property taxes according to the Tax Court Method with the remainder being reported on Schedule A. Keep in mind that there might be additional limitations based on mortgage interest and state and local taxes (SALT) limitations, or what is called excess.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Next, deduct direct rental expenses such advertising, management fees, commissions, and other expenses that are directly related to and generated from the rental days.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Next, deduct allocated operating expenses such as insurance, repairs, utilities, etc. according to the rental use portion. Keep in mind that some of these expenses might have a direct component such as guest-related cleaning and commissions, and are therefore deducted at 100%. This will also include excess mortgage interest and real estate property taxes (however, these add-ons are not the personal use portion but rather limited by other tax code provisions).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Next, if operating expenses based on the rental use portion exceed the remaining rental income after mortgage interest, property taxes and direct rental expenses, the calculated loss will be added to the carryover from prior years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Next, calculate the depreciation considering the rental use portion. If rental income remains after mortgage interest, property taxes, direct expenses and allocated operating expenses, then deduct the calculated depreciation. If this creates a loss, the calculated loss due to depreciation will be added to the carryover from prior years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As such you can see, you could possibly be calculating two carryover amounts for future years: operating expenses and depreciation.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the worksheet from our tax software for a <span style=\"color: #5d3fd3;\"><strong>WCG CPAs &amp; Advisors<\/strong><\/span> real estate investor-<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-293561 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/VacationHomeWorksheet.png\" alt=\"bolton method\" width=\"941\" height=\"1225\" \/>A few notables on this Vacation Home Worksheet-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You will see the two methods for determining personal and rental use portions. The typical or IRS method showing 67.31% for rental expenses, and then the Tax Court Method showing 28.77% for mortgage interest and real estate property taxes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The inverse of these two percentages is 32.69% and 71.23% respectively. You will see those numbers used under the \u201cPersonal Usage\u201d column.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The taxpayer was limited on state and local taxes (SALT) and as such you don\u2019t see an amount on line 2b.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Cleaning, supplies and certain other expenses were allocated as 100% for rental property operating expenses. These could have been listed in line 2d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>You will notice that operating expenses exceeded the rental income on line 3. As such, the carryover amount for future years is calculated by taking current operating expenses of $20,522 (line 4a, 4b and 4c) plus prior carryover amounts of $36,108 (line 4d) less the remainder of rental income of $20,495 (line 4f). This equals $36,135 is listed on line 7a.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can see a <a href=\"https:\/\/wcginc.com\/wp-content\/documents\/tax\/VacationRental.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF of this worksheet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that these carryover amounts are not passive activity losses which are traditionally reported on Form 8582. Also, they cannot be used like passive activity loss carryovers upon sale. 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We used to publish with iTunes and Nook, but keeping up with two different formats was brutal. 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