Yes as long as your rental was available for renting during the year, you claim power and water as utility expenses on your rental property even though it was vacant. Just include under the utilities section.
For example if the house was available for rent in Aug but not actually rented until Dec, you can include the utility costs as rental expenses from Aug until the end of the year. Any utility costs before the time the house was available for renting will not be deductible.
To enter rental
information in TurboTax, log into your tax return (for TurboTax Online sign-in,
click Here and click on "Take
me to my return") type "rental income
and expenses" in the search bar then select "jump to rental income and expenses".
TurboTax will guide you in entering this information.
