Guides

Free, practical writing for landlords with a handful of units. No fluff, no gated PDFs.

These are the long-form pieces behind the toolkit — the reasoning, the edge cases, and the arithmetic. Read them without buying anything.

The rent tracker spreadsheet that actually works

Why the month-grid everyone builds falls apart on partial payments and mid-year rent increases — and what to build instead.

Schedule E, line by line (2026)

Every expense line on Form 1040 Schedule E Part I, translated into the words your receipts actually use.

The 7 write-offs small landlords miss

Including the mileage math nobody does, and the repairs-versus-improvements line that costs the most to get wrong.

The one-page version

Every Schedule E line, the repairs-vs-improvements trap and the most-missed deductions, condensed onto a single printable page.

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More coming

New guides land every few weeks. If there's something you keep having to look up, tell us at support@landlordledgerhq.com and it may well become the next one.