[soledad15]

I want to buy a house in Virginia as an investment property and rent it to myself? If that is not possible, can I rent it to my husband?

[ScottGem]

It makes absolutely no sense to to rent a property to yourself or even your husband, unless you are looking to take a loss for tax purposes and even then its really iffy.

[ebaines]

Renting to yourself is considered personal use of the property and expenses incurred are not deductible. This often comes up when people rent out a condo for most of the year but use it for personal use for a few weeks each year. The rule is that if you use the property for personal use for more than 2 weeks per year or more than 10% of the number of days rented to third parties you can't treat it as a rental property for tax purposes. The reason for this is to prevent people from trying to turn personal expenses into business expenses.

[joypulv]

I'm curious what your reason to do this is?