Investors & landlords

You should total all the asset basis and use a ratio of the individual asset to the total when you sell off the entire property.  Use the same ratio for the sales price and the cost of sale.  And the reason you need to sell off all the assets using the correct ratio (not just $1) is because the land, home and other assets like appliances & furniture have different depreciation recovery methods.  Figuring ratios was something you were taught in grade school  so get out a calculator, excel worksheet  or even just a pencil & paper and do some simple figuring.  

 

ALL the assets listed for depreciation need to be sold so you need to allocate the sale price & costs of sale over all of them.  You need to  make yourself a table so you have all the info needed when the program asks for it since the program  will not do the allocation  for you.

 

 A simple allocation example using 100,000 of assets  and a sale price of 200,000 and cost of sale of 20,000 : 

 

assets              original basis             % of total basis      sales price     cost of sale

house             70,000                          70%                         140,000          14,000

land                20,000                           20%                            40,000           4000

appliances    10,000                           10%                             20,000           2000

 totals            100,000                         100%                         200,000         20,000