Can we claim lost rent on from a broken lease agreement when it took 2 months to rent the property because it around the Christmas holiday.

[db3476]

They moved out 7.5 months early and broke their lease.  It was actually 3 months of lost  rent at 1250 per month, but we still had $1250 of their deposit with offset one month.

[MinhT · Accepted solution]

Lost rent is not deductible for the simple reason that you have never reported the lost rent as income.