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sold rental property

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March 26, 2022
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We sold a rental property in November. We had installed a new heating and AC system the year before and installed a retaining wall and renovated the back yard 2 years before.

How do I handle these two items in the property Assets section on turbo tax ? Do I say yes I stopped using them and then the date of sale of the home and then what? Or?

ColeenD3

Yes, you would say that they were sold, the same way as the house was. You would apportion the sale to include these assets as well.

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resytad1Author

Thank You. Can you help me with the the next steps? after answering yes that the HVac system was sold it brings me to Special handling required? and I click no and then it wants sales information. Sales price and Sales expenses. I am not what to put there?

Carl11_2

Employee

Please read the below for guidance on how to report the sale of rental property. It covers the allocation of the sales price when you have more than one item listed in the Sale of Assets/Depreciation section.

Don't over think it. Or your head will explode. 🙂

Reporting the Sale of Rental Property

If you qualify for the "lived in 2 of last 5 years" capital gains exclusion, then when prompted you WILL indicate that this sale DOES INCLUDE the sale of your main home. For AD MIL personnel who don't qualify because of PCS orders, select this option anyway, because you "MIGHT" qualify for at last a partial exclusion.

Start working through Rental & Royalty Income (SCH E) "AS IF" you did not sell the property. One of the screens near the start will have a selection on it for "I sold or otherwise disposed of this property in 2021". Select it. After you select the "I sold or otherwise disposed of this property in 2021" you continue working it through "as if" you still own it. When you come to the summary screen you will enter all of your rental income and expenses, even if it's zero. Then you MUST work through the "Sale of Property/Depreciation" section. You must work through each individual asset one at a time to report its disposition (in your case, all your rental assets were sold).

Understand that if more than the property itself is listed in your assets list, then you need to allocate your sales price across all of your assets. You will only allocate the structure sales price; you will NOT allocate the land sales price, since the land is not a depreciable asset. Then if you sold this rental at a gain, you must show a gain on all assets, even if that gain is $1 on some assets. Likewise, if you sold at a loss then you must show a loss on all assets, even if that loss is $1 on some assets.

Basically, when working through an asset you select the option for "I stopped using this asset in 2021" and go from there. Note that you MUST do this for EACH AND EVERY asset listed.

When you finish working through everything listed in the assets section, if you ever at any time you owned this rental you claimed vehicle expenses, then you must also work through the vehicle section and show the disposition of the vehicle. Most likely, your vehicle disposition will be "removed for personal use", as I seriously doubt you sold your vehicle as a part of this rental sale.