Deedwell · Record books for landlords
Tax time, already done.
Every rent payment, every expense, every deductible mile, recorded once, in the order your tax return actually reads. A structured paper record book built backwards from IRS Schedule E, so December’s shoebox becomes a finished page you hand straight to your preparer.
Built for the landlord with one to a few rentals. 108 pages, 8.5 × 11 — $16.99 in paperback, $8.99 as a printable PDF. No app, no login, no subscription. You write in it. The checklist is free and needs no email.
Rent rollIncome & expensesMileageSchedule E
The whole point
Blank columns leave the hard part to you. This one tells you where each dollar goes.
A plain-English Schedule E Map pairs every expense with its exact IRS line, so a year of receipts ends up somewhere the form can actually use. It is page 5, the first thing you see, before you have written anything.
And because the 2026 mileage rate changed mid-year, the mileage log carries both rates with a year-total band that separates the two halves. We print both 2026 rates, with a year-total band that keeps the two halves apart — and the log has columns for date, purpose, odometer start and odometer end, which is the substantiation an examiner asks for and the reason most handwritten mileage logs fail.
The paperback is $16.99 on Amazon, printed and bound. The printable is the same 108 record pages as a PDF you print yourself, as many times as you like. The free checklist is the same thinking on one page, and it stays free.
Sound familiar?
Renting the place out is easy. The money side is where it slips.
Receipts in three places
A folder, a glovebox and a banking app. None of them adds up to a number you can put on a form.
Leaked deductions
Mileage, supplies, repairs, depreciation. What goes untracked all year is the hardest money to find again in April.
Schedule E guesswork
Generic ledgers do not map to the form the IRS actually wants, so April becomes translation work.
Repairs or improvement?
Deduct it now or depreciate it over 27.5 years. It is the call that most often goes wrong, and it is worth real money.
See it before you buy it
The inside, shown.
Every book on this shelf asks you to trust a cover. Here are the actual pages, at full size.
Inside the book
108 pages, in the order the year happens.
Nothing decorative. Every page exists because a landlord has to record something, and the tax return has to receive it.
- The Schedule E Map: every expense line, in plain English
- A worked example month, filled in
- Property profiles
- A cost-basis worksheet that feeds depreciation
- Tenant and lease logs
- Security-deposit tracking
- Twelve monthly rent rolls
- A full-year expense ledger, each page tallied by Schedule E line
- The mileage log, built for 2026’s split rate
- Repairs vs. improvements
- Depreciation and assets
- Per-property year summaries
- The Annual Schedule E Summary
- A landlord deduction checklist
Please know what this is. It is a structured record book, organized around one tax form, for the landlord with one to a few rentals who wants the year to end tidily. It is not a blank ledger you can repurpose, and it is not software. If you want free-form columns, a plain ledger will serve you better and cost less.
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The landlord deductions that are easiest to miss.
A plain-English checklist for owners who file their own Schedule E. Each deduction is named alongside the expense category that captures it — the same thinking as the book, on one page.
On the next page, in full. No email, no download gate, no form. Print it or work down it on screen.
Optional · nothing is gated
The numbers on your Schedule E move. One of them moved halfway through 2026.
The IRS standard mileage rate ran at 72.5¢ a mile through 30 June 2026, then 76¢ from 1 July — a split year, which is unusual and easy to file wrong. When a figure moves, we will tell you what changed and which Schedule E line it touches.
Email me when a figure changesThe free checklist stays free either way — this is not a gate, and nothing on this site sits behind it. A few notes a year, and nothing else. Every one goes up openly at deedwell.co/updates with no email required. The signup is hosted by Gumroad rather than sitting on this page, so we never put a form in front of you; what happens to your address is on the privacy page.
Why Deedwell
Built from the IRS’s own instructions, and dated so you can check.
Deedwell is a brand of Cedarstone Ventures LLC, a registered US company. We build from the IRS’s own Schedule E instructions, we name the source next to any figure we print, and we say plainly what a book does not do. Records you own and keep, not an app holding your data.
Gabriel, Office of the CEOQuestions? Write to info@cedarstonellc.com and we answer every one.