Deductions & credits

@DianeW777 I have noticed that TurboTax provides two screens for the rental property QBI deduction for 2020 tax returning.

Just like you mentioned above, the first screen is about using the 2 Safe harbors to qualify for the QBI deduction. The second screenshot (also appeared in the previous year's turboxtax) is the QBI deduction w/o using the safe harbor.

If all of my three rental properties in the same nature, can I still use the 2nd screen (QBI without using the safe harbor) to determine the QBI deduction for each property individually and don't have to group them together in an enterprise ( on the 1st QBI screen using the safe harbor)?

 

Since I have two profitable rental properties and 1 profit-loss rental property, if I group them together in an enterprise and using the safe harbor (I was qualified for all the conditions in 2020), I found the QBI deduction is basically wiped away by the big loss from the 3rd rental property. 

 

the 1st screen for the QBI deduction using safe harbors.

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the 2nd screenshot for the QBI without using the safe harbor:

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