Unless you continued to advertise and hold the property
available for rent after the tenants moved out, it ceased to be a rental
property between that time and when it was sold.
If it is no longer a rental property, the expenses that you
incurred are personal expenses and not rental expenses. The improvements that you made to the
property would be added to the basis and would be taken into account on your
2017 tax return when you report the sale of the property. The expenses for repairs or supplies are
personal expenses and would not be deducted or added to the basis.
If the property did continue to be a rental property, then
you would claim the repairs and supplies as an expense on Schedule E for the
year in which they were paid.
Improvements would be entered as a depreciable asset (carpet for
example) placed in service when they were installed.
