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Investors & landlords
Let's go back to basics. Depreciation for a rental is 27.5 year on the house, not the land.
For example: A $200,000 property with $20,000 land value leaves $180,000 to depreciate. So, $180,000 divided by 27.5 = $6545 for a year of depreciation. You would then multiply that by the percentage of days actually rented (or multiply by the number of days and divide by 365). Your math for your house should match your program.
It is zero personal days while rented. It was 100% business while rented for 50% of the year. You marked the number of rental days. For my program to give me the correct answer, I used 100 percent business under the start date.
Also, look at the actual tax forms in your return. You can look at form 4562 and see the depreciation amount.
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