Any residential rental property placed in service after 1986 is depreciated using the general Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System (MACRS), an accounting technique that spreads costs (and depreciation deductions) over 27.5 years. This is the amount of time the IRS considers to be the “useful life” of a rental property.
You would use 40 years if you elected to use the alternative MACRS for depreciation
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