I rent part of my home out, so I need to distribute mortgage interest across rental income (schedule E) and schedule A. In the past few years with turbotax I calculated and distributed mortage interest by myself manually, but this year it seems "Mortgage Interest Limited Smart Worksheet" will add the amount together with what I entered in schedule E's "mortgage smart sheet" to the schedule A (which definitely double counted the interest for itemized deduction).
So what should I do? From my current exploration, I could make the amount from smart worksheet to be zero to get schedule A right, but box will becomes red and not sure if this is good.
(This screenshot is the mortgage smart sheet that has all the mortage information that automatically calculated the qualified part. Currently I make the amount of box A2 to be 0 so that scheduleA does not double count the interest)
(this one is the smart worksheet in schedule E, that fills in manually. It seems that I have to put the amount here to make the schedule E correctly deduct my interest from rental income)
