Investors & landlords

I won't comment on the capital gain figures unless you need math help that the other experts can't provide.

 

I do want to point out that your cleaning fees are not an allowable selling expense.  Keeping your property clean is an ordinary and routine expense for everyone and the fact that you had to clean the property for sale does not make your cleaning expenses deductible when they are not deductible for anyone else.  (They might be deductible as a rental expense on schedule E, @Carl  could answer that.).  Likewise, minor repairs are not deductible selling expenses for the same reason.

 

Staging fees are a deductible selling expense (as advertising) as long as there were no changes made to the home; that is, everything that was set up was taken and the home was left as-was.  

 

Allowable expenses are listed in Worksheet 2. https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p523.pdf

 

The idea that you can include "fix-up" expenses as adjustments to the selling price if they were made within 90 days of the sale was taken out of the tax code in 1997.

 

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fixing-up-expenses.asp

https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/home-ownership/home-improvements-and-your-taxes/L6IwHGrx6