Thanks for your information. This is more complicated in that the apartment is in Florida and I am in Maryland. We can’t get into apartment and can’t get to Florida. The apartment needs to be cleaned out this week. I was going to make detailed listing of the belongings and we have pictures. The estate can’t take deduction on 1041 because there was no specific instructions in trust documentation noting what to do with belongings. The estate is divided 50-50 and only one sibling itemized deductions. I was hoping to be able to deduct the fmv for each charity even though the total for all charities would be greater than $5000?
