Investors & landlords

Carl wrote, “I am assuming the improvements were completed after the last renter moved out, and before the closing date of the sale.”  No, my parent died in December 2018 and the house is now used as a rental (5/1/19). Carpet replaced 1/4/19 and HVAC replaced 9/9/19. Changing the “Placed in Service” date to 12/19/18 (even tried 12/21/18 since TurboTax didn't like the date 1 day prior to transfer/acquisition) still has different numbers from the accountants for building and carpet. This is a new jointly held business (as of 12/20/18). The accountant I’m referring to is highly qualified and does taxes for my other partners. I’m the only one using TurboTax so I’m trying to make it work to match the accountant’s numbers. I’ve tried the options you suggested but I’m not getting the correct numbers. As I wrote in my original post, the HVAC numbers in TurboTax matched the accountant’s depreciation figure of $155. It’s just the building and carpet numbers that differed. Now I’m getting $55,638 and $5,720 respectively and TurboTax keeps trying to put 179 depreciation numbers in too which the accountant said would be problematic in future years. I tried to change those 179#s to 0 but still didn’t get the accountant’s numbers for building ($53,241), and carpet ($6,256). I haven’t touched the correct HVAC numbers ($155). 

You wrote, “This is easy - just not intuitive is all.” Doesn’t appear to be easy and certainly isn’t intuitive. Can I use the “Form’s view” to change the numbers to reflect the accountant’s numbers for building and carpet? If not, are you getting the numbers the accountant has if you enter them in TurboTax? Thanks!