Mileage trackingNew
A mileage tracker built for real estate professionals
Your hours prove your REPS status. Your miles are a second, separate deduction — and most landlords never document them well enough to claim. REPSShield now keeps your IRS mileage log right beside your hour log.
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The second deduction
Hours get tracked. Miles get forgotten.
Driving between rentals, to the supply store, to meet a contractor or a tenant — that mileage is a real estate mileage deduction most investors leave on the table because nobody wrote it down.
The drives nobody logs
Rental property mileage adds up quietly: a supply run here, a showing there, a bank trip for the property account. At the 2026 standard mileage rate, a few hundred undocumented miles is hundreds of dollars of deduction, gone.
Trips between properties you own or manage
Supply-store and hardware runs for a rental
Tenant, contractor, and property-manager meetings
Bank, post office, and office errands for the business
Reconstructed logs don't hold up
The IRS expects a mileage log recorded as you drive — not a spreadsheet rebuilt in December from memory and gas receipts. A log with gaps and round numbers invites questions you don't want.
Entries created when the drive happens
Date, miles, destination, and purpose on every trip
Business, personal, and commute kept separate
Totals your CPA can tie to your return
In the product
Log the drive where you log the work
Mileage lives inside the same Log Hours flow you already use — a drive can attach to the activity entry it supports, the same way evidence files do.
Log a drive in seconds
Enter odometer start and end, or just the miles driven. Add the destination and business purpose and you're done — no separate app, no second system.
Odometer start/end or direct miles
Destination and business purpose on every trip
Vehicle and property attached to each drive
Linked to the activity it supports
A trip can link to the time entry for the work at the other end of the drive, so your mileage log and your hour log corroborate each other.
Trips link to activity entries like evidence does
Per-property mileage totals build themselves
Standalone drives for trips with no logged work
Classify every trip
Mark each drive business, personal, or commute. Only documented business miles roll into your real estate mileage deduction.
Business / personal / commute classifications
Unclassified trips flagged until you sort them
Deduction totals count business miles only
Reports per property, export in CSV
See miles and deduction value per property and per IRS rate period, then export the full mileage log as CSV for your CPA or tax software.
Per-property mileage and deduction reports
Totals split by IRS rate period
One-click CSV export of the complete log
The workflow
Drive, log, deduct
1
Log the drive
From the Log Hours form or the Mileage page, enter the odometer readings or miles, destination, and purpose — while the trip is still fresh.
2
REPSShield rates it
Each trip is stamped with the IRS standard mileage rate in effect on its own date and linked to its property and activity entry. Classify it business, personal, or commute.
3
Export at tax time
Your deduction total is already calculated — per property and per rate period — and the full log exports to CSV for your CPA.
Built for IRS rules
The record the IRS asks for, kept by default
IRS Publication 463 sets out what a mileage log must show to support a vehicle deduction. REPSShield's mileage log is structured around exactly those elements.
The Pub. 463 record elements
- Date — the day of each trip, recorded as it happens
- Miles — the distance driven, to two decimals — never rounded to whole miles
- Destination — where you went, with the property attached
- Business purpose — why the trip was a rental-business trip
The 2026 standard mileage rate, snapshotted per trip
The IRS changed the rate mid-year for 2026. REPSShield stamps every trip with the rate in effect on that trip's date, so history is never rewritten when the rate changes.
| Trip date | Rate per mile |
|---|---|
| Jan 1 – Jun 30, 2026 | 72.5¢ |
| Jul 1 – Dec 31, 2026 | 76¢ |
Per IRS Notice 2026-10 and Announcement 2026-11.
Miles are not hours — and REPSShield never mixes them
Mileage does not count toward the 750-hour Real Estate Professional test, and driving doesn't inflate your hour log. REPSShield keeps both records side by side — hours for your status, miles for your deduction — each documenting exactly what it should.
General information only — REPSShield does not provide tax advice. Confirm your mileage deduction with your tax professional.
Bring your MileIQ or Everlance history
Already tracking drives in another app? A dedicated mileage import mode reads MileIQ, Everlance, and Stride CSV exports and brings your trips in with dates, miles, and classifications intact.
Mileage CSV import for MileIQ, Everlance & Stride
Trips land in your mileage log — not your hour log
Smart Import routes travel rows to trips for you
One audit file, hours and miles together
At tax time your CPA gets the complete picture: the contemporaneous hour log that supports your REPS status and the mileage log that supports your vehicle deduction, from one system.
Mileage log exports alongside your hour reports
Trips linked to the entries and evidence they support
Per-property totals for each rental's return