I have a rental house that I've owned for a long time. The house is about 3 hrs away, it was my first residence before I relocated for my job many years ago. The tenant had lived in the house for a number of years, but in 2025 he started getting way behind on rent. He kept telling me he would catch up when he got his tax refund, so I didn't evict. Around October, I had hip surgery. That's around the time he stopped paying rent entirely. Some time around October, he moved to a smaller house, but didn't remove everything from the house. He didn't turn in the keys until late December, and he left a mess.
So there are a couple of questions I'm not sure how to answer. Turbotax asks me if the house was rented all year. The tenant only paid about 7 months of rent, but he lived there for about 10 months. He essentially used it for free storage for a couple of months.
If the rent was paid for 7 months, occupied for 10 months, how do I answer this question? He kept telling me he was working on getting the stuff moved, then finally told me he had nowhere to put it.
