simple fix ... just enter ONE day of rental use to keep the rental on the program
Seems when I suggest that, everyone and their mother jumps down my throat screaming they can't do that, because "They didn't even try to rent it in [Tax year]!" But that's exactly what I would do. Claming 1 day rented with zero rental income is no big deal. For example, if the rental contract ended on Jan 1 of the current tax year, the rent for that one day would have been paid already in Dec of the prior tax year. So you'd have 1 day of rental in 2022 with no rental income in 2022, I see no problem with that.
The problem could arise if audited however. But the IRS is not going to bother one over something that trivial. However, if pulled for a random audit, or there's other things on the tax return that trigger an audit, finding this "one day rented" thing could potentially just be another small itty-bitty feather in the cap of the auditor.
Until and unless the new congress kills the funding for the $87,000 new IRS agents to add to the 82,000 they already have, I would suggest folks keep in mind they're not hiring those new agents to go after rich people whom it's claimed "don't pay their fair share". (Many of them do.)
