@golies In regards to filing my 2018 and 2019 forms 8582, I ended up calling TurboTax. I spoke with Kim and she said the best thing to do was NOT to amend since the forms would not change my taxes for those years. Amending would most likely cause confusion. She said to go ahead and file in 2020 and take the PAL and if they ask for the forms at a later date I could just send in the forms separately. At that point I could just print a hard copy and mail it. Although she thought it was unlikely they would request anything since they have record of the PAL from the 2017 filing and many tax programs do not file the form in this situation so I am not alone.
I want to thank you for your explanation on how to file the sale and PAL. It is very helpful. I have also spent a lot of time trying several ways in TurboTax to get the correct way. I will most likely file the same way you described as I am having a lot of problems trying to enter the PAL on Schedule E when it wasn’t a rental in 2020. I also am unable to get my state return (California) to pick up the PAL when entering in Schedule E even though the property is in California and all activity on the rental was always in California and the passive loss was filed with California in prior years. @AmeliesUncle if I do enter the PAL in schedule E as you suggested is there something I need to do so that the PAL shows up on my state (California) return? Also, thank you so much for all your posts on this topic. They have been very helpful.
