Investors & landlords

In the rental section, when going through the asset say YES when you get to the "Special Handling" screen.  Then:

 

Option #1:  Report the sale in the "Sale of Business Property" section.  Adjust your Basis to result in $0 gain/loss (actually, if I remember correctly, that section of the program has a problem with that; if so, adjust so it shows a $1 gain).

 

Option #2:  Report the sale as a personal home sale.  It will report it on the wrong form (8949 rather than 4797), but it will properly limit it to a $0 loss.

 

Option #3:  Go ahead and report the sale in the rental section (say "no" to the Special Handling question) and show the loss.  Then to the "Sale of Business Property" section and report a sale that shows an equal amount of gain.  You can call it something like "Offset for non-allowable loss".  The net result will be $0 gain/loss.  

 

Personally, I would go with option #1.