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Investors & landlords
"Where do I list 'sold' put options?"
Your question is confusing because it really doesn't explain your situation and you're forcing people to try and interpret a verb in quotation marks, which usually means that the author doesn't really agree with the use of the term.
If you wrote a put option, i.e., sold a put, then that doesn't go on your income tax return. You've taken a position, (e.g., you've bought a stock), and until that position results in a realized gain or loss you don't report that on your income tax return. Just like you don't report to the IRS every stock you've ever bought, unless you've sold the stock, you don't report the writing of a put option. When the put expires or is exercised, that's when you have a reportable event.