Carl, Amy posted something about the spot where I enter the number of personal days and rented days.
I saw that. To clarify: (Caps for emphasis/importance)
Personal use days is the number of days you or a related family member lived in the property rent free, as your primary residence, 2nd home, vacation home, or any other type of "personal pleasure" use *WHILE* *THE* *PROPERTY* *WAS* *CLASSIFIED* *AS* *A* *RENTAL*.
The number of days before it was converted to a rental, or after it was converted to personal use, *do* *not* *get* *counted* for anything.
That could be what triggered it to be converted?
Nothing "triggers" a conversion from personal use to rental, or from rental to personal use. Take a look at the screenshot @AmyC posted in her previous post. You actually have to take physical action to select the box for "I converted this property from personal use to a rental", or "I converted this property from a rental to personal use".
It gets hung up on SC and I don't want to pay $45 for SC anyway because I probably don't need it. (we have an out of state rental in SC)
I myself am in FL and don't deal with state taxes. However, I got some news for you, and you're probably not going to like it.
Assuming SC is not your resident state, you should be filing a non-resident return with SC every year so that you're showing your losses every year. Otherwise, when you sell that property in SC a significant portion of your gain may be taxable by the state in SC, since you didn't show SC that you depreciated the property and operated at a loss every year.
You really need to seek professional help yesterday, if not sooner.
