MayaD
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Investors & landlords

You must increase the basis of the property by the cost of any additions or improvements made before placing your property into service as a rental that have a useful life of more than 1 year.

Those improvement should be entered as separate Rental Assets and are subject to depreciation. 

For more information please check How do I handle capital improvements and depreciation for my rental?

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