Since posting the question,
Can you provide a screen shot? Ensure that you don't expose any personally identifiable information in it.
I get the impression you may think I work for TurboTax or have some kind of influence. Unfortunately, neither is true. I have been stating to the moderators for years about this, and many, many other things that are outdated and some even flat out wrong, to no avail. So I gave up.
Just understand that "escrow fees" included as a part of your payment or on your closing statement is money that is placed into a separate account for things like property taxes, when they come due to your taxing authority. The money in the escrow account is your money, and it remains your money until such time the escrow account manager distributes it to pay property taxes and other things. The money is not tax deductible until such time that it is used to pay a tax deductible expense with.
There was a time where I could tell by looking at symbols in your initial post, what version of the program you were using and if it was desktop or online. Apparently, that feature is no more.
My "wild guess" is that the program may be asking for this, so that it doesn't get included in your cost basis of the property. But that's just a guess at this point.
