Mileage tracking for real estate agents
You drive between listings all day. Your calendar already holds the showings and their addresses. Kilevo turns them into a mileage log.
The miles add up faster than in almost any other job
A busy agent runs fifteen to thirty showings a week, plus listing appointments, inspections, closings and open houses. Fifteen thousand business miles in a year is ordinary. At the 2026 IRS standard rate of 72.5 cents a mile, that is $10,875 — deducted on Schedule C, since most agents are independent contractors rather than employees.
Miles that size are worth recording properly. They are also the miles an examiner reads hardest, because a car that does everything mixes business and personal driving in a single odometer. Weekend open houses, a broker preview across town, a second trip back to a listing for the inspection — each is a separate business drive, and each is easy to forget by April.
The commute rule catches agents constantly
Driving from home to your brokerage office is a commute. It is never deductible, however far the office is. But most agents rarely start the day at the office — they start at a showing. If your home qualifies as your principal place of business, the drive from home to the first property is business mileage, not a commute.
That single distinction decides thousands of dollars for an agent. Where the line falls is settled on the business miles vs commuting page.
Which drives count
| Drive | Deductible? |
|---|---|
| Home office → showing | Yes, with a qualifying home office |
| Showing → showing | Yes |
| Office → listing appointment | Yes |
| Home → brokerage office | No. Commute |
How Kilevo builds the log
You already schedule showings. Kilevo reads your Google, Outlook or ICS calendar and, for every appointment that carries a property address, creates a round trip from your home address to that address. The listing address becomes the destination; the appointment title becomes the business purpose. Property addresses are usually complete — street, city, ZIP — which is exactly what a correct distance needs. The calendar sync runs every night on a paid plan, and on demand whenever you want.
What it will not do
Kilevo has no GPS and no mobile app. It does not follow your car. If a showing never made it into your calendar, there is no trip to build. A virtual walkthrough with no address produces zero miles, not a guess. If you keep no calendar, Kilevo is not for you.
When a listing address is missing its city, Kilevo picks the closest match to your home address, flags it as a guessed address, and one click confirms it for every showing with the same title.
At tax time
Kilevo exports an annual PDF report, broken out per vehicle, with the date, destination and business purpose the IRS expects on every line. How those miles land on your return is covered on the mileage deduction on Schedule C page.
Kilevo is a mileage log, not tax advice. What actually qualifies depends on your home office and your business, so confirm the details with the IRS rate page and a tax professional. Then create a free account, connect your calendar, and import last year's showings to see your mileage. The free plan covers 5 trips a month; a paid plan lifts the limit and syncs every night.
