STR Minion

STR Minion helps short-term-rental owners keep contemporaneous records of the work they do on their properties — the kind of time log that holds up under IRS scrutiny.

If you use the short-term-rental tax strategy, your records have to show material participation under the IRS tests: 500+ hours, substantially all the work, or 100+ hours and more than anyone else. The catch is timing. Logs reconstructed from memory at year-end — or worse, after an audit notice — are exactly what gets thrown out. Records made as the work happens are what survive.

The problem is that logging your time is a chore, so most owners don't do it until it's too late. STR Minion makes it take seconds.

LOG IN SECONDS — BY CHAT OR VOICE Just say or type what you did: "20 minutes at the Joshua Tree cabin fixing the lockbox." STR Minion turns it into a clean, categorized time entry. Tap once to confirm. On iPhone, voice uses on-device speech recognition when your device supports it, so dictation is fast.

NOTHING IS SAVED WITHOUT YOUR CONFIRMATION Every entry is shown back to you as a confirmation card before it's written. You see the property, category, duration, and date, and you can edit any of it. No silent logging, no surprises.

CONTEMPORANEOUS BY DESIGN Each entry records when the work happened and when you logged it. Entries logged well after the fact are flagged automatically, so your record is honest and you can see at a glance how current you're staying.

KNOW WHERE YOU STAND The dashboard shows your current-year hours — total, by property, by category, and by person — and which material-participation tests you're currently passing. Spouse and co-host hours combine into one household total, the way the rules treat them.

BUILT FOR REAL PORTFOLIOS Track multiple properties. Invite a spouse or co-host so your work counts together. Review, filter, and edit every entry. Your data is yours — export it any time through a documented API.

WHO IT'S FOR Short-term-rental owners using the STR tax strategy who want defensible records without the year-end spreadsheet scramble.

STR Minion is a record-keeping tool, not tax advice. Talk to your CPA about your specific situation.