Yes, I think you may have made an incorrect entry somewhere in your program if you feel the deprecation taken was excessive. it should be very small. Check your entries and make sure the service date that the rental was placed in service is the date you took ownership of the house and made the contractual agreement with the seller.
Meanwhile to give you a rough outline on how deprecation should work, i will offer this an example. Say if the cost basis of the house is $500,000 and if you rented for two months or 1/6 of a year. The depreciation would be determine by the following calculation. ($500,000)/(27.5) X 1/6 = $3030. This is a rough estimate because it depends on if you are using a MM convention, HY, or mid-quarter depending on when the property is placed in service. This doesn't matter so much though as the depreciation may differ by a few bucks but doesn't make a dramatic impact.
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