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Investors & landlords
changing the classification should only change the allowable depreciation for this year and since you're disposing of the asset and recapturing all of the depreciation that you took it shouldn't make any difference.
Unfortunately, due to programming limitations the program just flat out will not work that way. If you change from say, 5 year depreciation to 27.5 year depreciation, the program will incorrectly assume you took the correct depreciation in prior years, thus making the current year's depreciation follow suit. So you will be recapturing much less depreciation than was actually taken.
Since you sold the property in 2022 it's best to leave well enough alone and report the sale "as is" so you will correctly recapture the depreciation that was actually taken, since it is the higher amount.
Remember, you have to recapture the "higher" of depreciation taken, or the depreciation you should have taken.