PattiF
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Investors & landlords

The new landscape is considered an improvement and would be depreciated. Capital improvements that add to the value of your rental property, prolong its life, or adapt it to new uses must be depreciated over a period of time rather than deducted as a current-year expense. 

 

Expenses are a short-term category such as maintaining the landscape.

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