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@Danielle479 wrote:

 how will this client (landlord) handle reporting the 'personal services' value back to the tenant - should there be a type of 1099-misc for this or is this the tenant's responsibility to report -

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If the client's business (including a rental that rises to the level of a business) did not pay for services (including the bartered services), no 1099 is needed.

In other words, if those "personal services" were for the benefit of the individual (not the taxpayer's business or rental), no 1099 is needed.

1099-NEC would be for services, and that's when it is between a business and a service provider.

But there are household employee rules, which are W2 and not 1099-NEC, as well, if this is personal care.

If the person renting a single family home gets a discount on rent in exchange for maintaining the property, that's not going to rise to the level of a business activity. If the person renting in a complex gets the same deal, that's starting to be property management.

Facts and circumstances matter.

In these days of JE and GM headlines, I would use a term other than "personal services."  

I like your gentle 'correction' - I guess I didn't want my question to go on and on - mainly that this tenant was doing maintenance towards the rental and then also services for the landlord's personal residence - and whether, somehow those 'personal residence' services should be reported in any way on some type of additional 1099 -thanks - 🙂

Would you report on 1099-NEC the people who rake leaves, mow lawns, move snow, pick up your prunings at your house? Your house doesn't have a profit-making intent.

Is the rent being charged/paid still within a reasonable market rate? There is a barter relationship for the rental work, apparently.