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Investors & landlords
Should all of these expenses be deductible?
No. Those expenses are not deductible "as a rental expense" per-se. The entire cost (and I mean *every* *single* *penny* including your storage fees) are a property improvement that adds value to the property. So that entire cost gets entered in the Assets/Depreciation section and depreciated over time.
Now if the work was finished and the asset was placed *in service* after the last tenant moved out prior to the sale, let me know. If you did not have a tenant in the property between the time you completed the work and the closing date of the sale, you are not required to depreciate the asset (and you definitely do not want to either). There's a special way to handle that in TurboTax, so that the cost gets added to the cost basis of the property, without having to depreciate it. This keeps your taxable gain lower than it otherwise would be if you depreciated the asset.