I received rental income for an investment property that I report on my schedule E; however, since the payer did not report it in Box #1 Rents in the 1099-MISC that I received, the software is treating it as self employed income since they marked it as Box #3 Other income. This was received due to the fact that my tenant stopped paying rent and the city of Los Angeles stepped in and covered their rent. They refuse to correct the 1099 to Box 1, even though, going forward the state of California is covering this and has provided the same 10990-Misc for future months and has marked box #1 rent.
Los Angeles is refusing to comply with how California does it so the rent LA provided was for Jan-Aug; however, the rent provided by CA was from Sept-Dec. I want to know if there is a proper way I can list Jan-Aug rent marked as "Other Income" but not get dinged as self employed income. I can't carry it over into my schedule E since it's not marked as Box 1, Rent
