Back in December 2020 our long term tenants moved out of our out-of-state rental house. With COVID travel restrictions and the need to do some work on the place, it was not rented (vacant) in 2021 and 2022. For our 2021 tax return, TurboTax asked how many days it was rented. I put in zero, so TurboTax erased the rental property. No Schedule E was filed for 2021. Maybe that was a mistake. But assuming we open the house as a vacation rental in 2023, how do we capture the passive activity loss carryover from our 2020 return along with the rental's depreciation records and pick it up again as a rental? We did incur expenses in 2021 and 2022 like exterior painting, repair of a retaining wall, etc. Any way to recapture those expenses once the place returns to a rental? I do not recall telling TurboTax that we converted the property to personal use, just entered zero for the days rented and zero for rental income in 2021.
