REP Helper

What is REP Helper?

REP Helper is an MCP server that connects AI assistants like Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, or any MCP‑compatible agent to a REP Helper account. It provides a conversational interface for tracking rental hours, documenting material participation for IRS tests, and generating audit‑ready reports — built for real estate investors, tax professionals, and developers creating agentic real estate tools.

How to use REP Helper?

No installation or configuration instructions are provided in the README. To use it, you connect the server to your REP Helper account and then interact with your AI assistant using natural language to log hours, query totals, manage properties, or generate reports.

Key features of REP Helper

• Log time entries by property and activity type.
• Query hours by property, date range, or activity.
• Retrieve participation summaries per property or portfolio.
• Generate IRS‑ready audit reports.
• Manage properties and team members.
• Pull year‑end documentation packages.

Use cases of REP Helper

• Real estate investors log rental hours and track the 750‑hour REPS threshold via natural language.
• Agents automatically capture time entries from calendars, emails, or task logs and push them to REP Helper.
• Tax professionals run portfolio‑wide participation summaries to qualify short‑term rental income as non‑passive.
• Developers build agentic real‑estate tools on top of Claude or ChatGPT using MCP.

FAQ from REP Helper

What IRS tests does REP Helper support?

It supports the Real Estate Professional Status (REPS) test — tracking the 750‑hour threshold and majority‑of‑services test across your portfolio — and the STR Material Participation test — documenting the 100‑hour and more‑than‑anyone‑else rules per property for short‑term rentals.

What do I need to run the REP Helper MCP server?

You need a REP Helper account. The server connects your AI assistant (Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, or any MCP‑compatible agent) to that account.

Where does my time‑entry data live?

Your data resides in your REP Helper account. The server reads and writes entries through the MCP interface.

Can I query hours for a single property or the whole portfolio?

Yes. You can query hours by property, date range, or activity type, and retrieve participation summaries across your entire portfolio.

What transports or authentication does the server use?

The README does not specify transports or authentication details; it only states that the server connects to your REP Helper account.