Give your house its own email address.
Forward every invoice for the roof, the deck and the new floors. Reimburse reads each one, keeps what raises your home’s cost basis, and has the record ready the year you sell.
Free. No bank login. Export the whole record whenever you want it.
$112,750 of improvements on record since you bought in 2019. Your basis is $687,550.
Forward it, and it’s filed
Send an invoice to your home’s address from any inbox, or give the address to your contractor. Reimburse reads who you paid, how much and when, works out whether it is an improvement or a repair, and adds what counts to your basis. A PDF, a photo or the email itself all work.
Or photograph a paper invoice with the +. If you also run a business or keep HSA receipts, the same button takes every kind and sends each where it belongs.
What counts, and what doesn’t
An improvement adds to the home’s value, makes it last longer or adapts it to a new use. A repair keeps it in good condition. Only improvements raise your basis, unless the repairs were part of an extensive remodel, when the whole job counts.
Raises your basis
Doesn’t
When it matters
Most sellers owe nothing. A married couple keeps up to $500,000 of gain tax-free and a single seller $250,000, once they have owned and lived in the home two of the last five years. That limit was set in 1997 and has never moved, so a long stay in a rising market can cross it, and then every dollar on record is a dollar of gain that isn’t taxed.
Reimburse shows the price where tax would start for you, and every receipt you keep moves it up by what it cost.
The folder you meant to keep, that knows what counts.
Its own address
Every home gets one, named for your street if you like, with a few letters nobody can guess. Mail to it from anyone is read and filed.
Sorted for you
Improvements, repairs, closing costs and quotes, by Publication 523’s headings. A replaced carpet comes off; a credit you took comes off.
Ready the year you sell
One export: your basis in the IRS worksheet’s order, a spreadsheet, and every invoice behind it, for whoever does your taxes.
Questions
The rules are from IRS Publication 523, Selling Your Home, and Publication 551, Basis of Assets.
What is cost basis?
What the home cost you for tax: the price, some of what you paid at closing, and every improvement since, less any energy credits taken for them. The gain when you sell is the price less selling costs, less the basis.
Do I need this if I’ll never owe tax?
Maybe not, and Reimburse says so: if your gain stays under the tax-free amount, the receipts change nothing. People keep them because nobody knows the price in twenty years, a spouse may sell alone, or the home may become a rental.
Can my contractor send invoices straight to it?
Yes. Give them the address. Each message shows who sent it, and anything that can’t be read waits for you to say what it is.
Can Gmail forward to it automatically?
Yes. Gmail sends a confirmation message to the address first; it appears on your home’s record with the email’s text, so you can open the link inside it.
What about repairs?
They are kept, marked as repairs and not added. If they were part of a bigger remodel, mark them so and they count.
What does it cost?
Nothing. No trial and no card.
Checked on October 1, 2026 against Publication 523, Selling Your Home, Publication 551, Basis of Assets and 26 U.S.C. 121, the home sale exclusion. An estimate for your records, not tax advice.
Your next invoice is worth keeping.
Yours will look like 2214alder.@reimburse.com.