You will enter these items as improvements that will be depreciated. When you sell the property, all of the unused depreciation will be added to your rental property and you will have the tax benefit of the expense. The contingency would be entered as an expense to deduct for the year instead of as a depreciable item.
After the ordinary income and expenses are entered, you will see the Rental Summary screen.
- Select Start next to Asset/Depreciation and follow the online instructions to enter the depreciable improvement expenses. These will all have the same depreciation life of 27.5 years.
The expenses that you listed in your last response are all Rental Real Estate Property as they are all improvements to the rental property.
This TurboTax help article has more information about capital improvements and depreciation for your rental property along with additional links.
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