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The refund date from TurboTax is only an estimated based on the IRS average of 21 days to issue a tax refund after receiving the tax return.   Once a tax return has been Accepted by the IRS or a State, TurboTax receives no further information concerning the tax return or the status of any tax refund.   After the tax return has been Accepted by the IRS (meaning only that they received the return) it will be in the Processing mode until the tax refund has been Approved and then an Issue Date will be available on the IRS website.

Did you e-file your tax return and was it accepted? Only the IRS and your State control when and if a Federal or State tax refund is Approved and Issued.   You complete your tax return by finishing all 3 Steps in the File section. In Step 3, to e-file your tax return, you must click on the large button labeled "Transmit my returns now".   After completing the File section and e-filing your tax return you will receive two emails from TurboTax. The first email when your tax return was transmitted and the second email when the tax return has either been accepted or rejected.   Note - Once a tax return has been Accepted by the IRS or a State, TurboTax receives no further information concerning the tax return or the status of any tax refund.  Only the taxpayer listed on the tax return can obtain the status of a tax refund or a tax return.   To check the status of an e-filed return, open up your desktop product or log into your TurboTax Online Account. You can find your status within the TurboTax product. If accepted by the IRS use the federal tax refund website to check the refund status - https://www.irs.gov/refunds If accepted by the state use this TurboTax support FAQ to check the state tax refund status - https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-refund/track-state-refund/L3jgO8PGs_...   After the tax return has been Accepted by the IRS (meaning only that they received the return) it will be in the Processing mode until the tax refund has been Approved and then an Issue Date will be available on the IRS website.

A valid QMID is letter - number - letter - number. This is an IRS rule, not a TurboTax rule. Make sure you are not mistaking a capital letter I for a number one, letter S for number 5, or some similar confusion. If the QMID that you have definitely starts with a number, then what you need to do is contact the manufacturer to get the correct QMID. It cannot start with a number.  

"what does accessed mean" "what does assessed mean" Accessed or assessed? And where exactly do you see this word? What is the context? We can't see your screen. You have to tell us all the details of what you are seeing and how you got there.  

@2tennpalmers wrote:   occupy it for two weeks (so it's a "home,"   and you return the third week to the timeshare company for compensation and they send you a 1099 MISC, how do you report the 1099 MISC to the IRS and claim that no income taxes are due because you rented your "home" for less than 14 days?   You would need to occupy it for "more" than 14 days.  If you only occupied for 14 days, it is not a "residence" and therefore the rental income is taxable.   If you occupied for 15 or more days, you technically should just not report it.  But there will be an IRS notice coming that you would need to respond to.   Some people try to avoid the IRS notice by reporting the amount of the 1099-MISC, then reporting an equal amount as an expense (resulting in $0 gain/loss).  However, if you are entering accurate rental days and personal days, I don't think TurboTax will let you do that.

To go back to a lower version or the Free Edition you can try to clear and start over https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/using-turbotax/help/how-do-i-clear-and-start-over-in-turbotax-online/00/26444 To Downgrade to Free If you started your tax return in TurboTax Free Edition (Form 1040 with limited credits; roughly 37% of taxpayers qualify), you won't need to clear and start over. You can select Switch to Free Edition instead. In the Turbo Tax Free Edition, information that you can enter is limited now.  Why do I have to upgrade from the Free Edition? https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/upgrading/help/why-do-i-have-to-upgrade-from-free-edition/00/26379 Or try the IRS Free File program https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-for-free A couple reasons it could be saying you need to upgrade…. You might be seeing this because of form 8959, that goes to Schedule 2. The amount of Medicare taxes withheld in W2 box 6 is not exactly 1.45% of the Medicare wages in box 5, due to rounding. I read a post that said to try leaving the cents off of the Medicare tax on your W2 box 6. Box 6 has to be exactly 1.45% of box 5 or less. If it is saying you need Schedule 3 and can't use the Free Edition it might be giving you the Retirement Savings Credit. You can say you are a student to decline the credit. You must answer Yes when asked in the Retirement Savings Contributions Credit section if your were a full-time student. The answer to this same question asked in the personal-information section is not the answer that is used.