Logged RE tracks your hours on every rental, scores them against the six material participation tests, the 750 hour REPS bar, and the short-term rental 7 day average, and hands your CPA a clean PDF with the evidence attached.
Coming soon to the App StoreFree to start. No credit card needed for your first 10 entries.
Why this matters
If you claim material participation or REPS, the IRS expects a contemporaneous record of your hours. Courts have thrown out six figure loss deductions because the taxpayer rebuilt their time from memory after the fact.
A log you keep as the work happens, with photos and documents behind each entry, is the difference between keeping those losses and paying them back with interest and penalties. Logged RE exists so that record is already sitting in your pocket when anyone asks for it.
Who built this
Logged RE was built by Dan Mullen, a CPA whose practice centers on tax strategy for rental property investors. Every test, every activity category, and every warning in the app comes from the rules he applies for clients all year, not from a feature list written by a software company.
He built the log he wished every client walked in with. Now it fits in your pocket.
Dan Mullen CPA, founder of Logged RE
What you get
Every screen in the app maps to a rule in section 469. You log the hours once and the app does the scoring, the math, and the paperwork.
You log time against a specific rental and a specific activity. Under section 469 each rental is its own activity by default, so your record has to be kept that way to hold up.
The dashboard shows where you stand on every material participation test as you log, including the 500 hour and 100 hour bars measured per property.
Qualifying for REPS takes 750 hours and more than half of your total working time. The Progress tab counts both so December is not a surprise.
Snap a photo of the repair or attach the invoice right on the time entry. A corroborated log carries far more weight with an auditor than a bare spreadsheet ever will.
Work you already blocked on your phone's calendar can be pulled in as entries in a couple of taps, and events you already imported are caught so nothing gets counted twice.
Export a dated report with your hours, activities, totals, and an evidence column. Hand it over at tax time and the conversation about your participation is short.
The What Counts tab covers 55 activities, each marked as qualifying or not, with the tax authority behind the answer. You learn the rules while you track, so bad hours never enter your log.
Log the time your cleaner, handyman, or property manager puts in. If anyone outworks you on a property, the app warns you before it costs you the 100 hour test.
Chasing the short-term rental strategy instead? Log guest stays, watch your average against the 7 day limit with headroom to spare, link your Airbnb or Vrbo booking calendar, and test future bookings in the scenario planner before you accept them.
Pick the qualification you are aiming for and the dashboard tracks your pace toward it. Past years stay in the app, so the record behind an old return is always a tap away.
Inside the app
You log the hours on the Time Log tab, the Dashboard scores them against the tests, What Counts tells you which activities qualify, and the Progress tab shows how the year is tracking.
Short-term rentals
Keep your average guest stay at 7 days or less and a short-term rental is treated as a trade or business, so material participation alone can make the losses non passive. The app does that math for you, stay by stay.
The deliverable
One tap exports the whole year: your totals, every test scored with the hours behind it, and a full entry log with notes and evidence file names. No cleanup, no reformatting, ready for the workpapers.
Your data stays yours
Some hour tracking apps hand your contact details to advertising platforms for ad targeting. We find that strange for an app that holds your tax records, so here is our position in plain words.
We do not sell your personal information to anyone, and we do not share it with advertisers or ad platforms. Not directly, not hashed, not anonymized.
There are no advertising cookies or ad tracking tools in the app or on this site. Nothing you log is used to build a marketing profile of you.
We collect only what the app needs to keep your log synced and secure. Delete your account and your entries and uploaded evidence are removed with it.
Pricing
Ten free entries is enough to see whether this fits how you work. Pro costs less than one hour of your CPA's time for the whole year.
$0
Your first 10 time entries
$99.99
Per year, cancel anytime
Subscriptions are billed through the App Store and can be managed or canceled from your Apple account at any time.
Questions
REPS is a status under section 469(c)(7) that lets qualifying investors treat rental losses as non passive, which can offset other income. Qualifying takes more than 750 hours in property trades or businesses and more than half of your total working time, and you have to be able to prove both.
When a property's average guest stay is 7 days or less, it is treated as a trade or business rather than a rental, so material participation alone can make its losses non passive, with no REPS required. The app tracks your stays, shows your average against the 7 day limit, and scores your hours, so you can see whether your property could qualify and how much headroom you have left.
It is the IRS standard for being genuinely involved in running your rentals rather than investing passively. There are several tests, the most common being 500 hours in an activity or 100 hours with nobody else doing more. The app scores all of them from the hours you log.
Courts routinely reject logs rebuilt from memory after an audit notice arrives. A record kept while the work happens, backed by photos and documents, carries far more weight. That is the whole reason this app exists.
Yes. Your log is tied to your account, synced over encrypted connections, and stored with your uploaded evidence in private storage only you can access. We never sell your information or share it with advertisers, and deleting your account removes your data.
Your first 10 time entries are free with no credit card, and the full reference library, live test scoring, and evidence uploads are all included. Pro is $99.99 per year when you are ready for unlimited entries and PDF reports.