Deductions & credits

how long have you owned it? is you son really giving you $35,000 in cash.  did you put any capital improvements into it before "selling it" to him? how did you come up with the market value? 

 

if you paid $120,000 for it that is its market value; if shortly thereafter you sold it to your son and didn't put any capital improvements into it, isn't it still worth $120,000?