When entering rental property expenses, all entered amounts (cleaning, repair, etc) get split between rental and personal use. Why can't I force an expense into rental?

[phlow2001]

I started renting my property in october of last year.  I have cleaning and repair expenses that occurred during those rental months.  Turbo Tax wants to split those expenses between rental and personal use.  That seems wrong to me.  Is it?

[TaxGuyBill · Accepted solution]

Unless it went back-and-forth between rental use and personal use, you should enter zero personal days.  The question wants to know how many personal days the property was used after it was converted to a rental property.

You will then need to manually prorate the mortgage interest and real estate taxes between personal use (Jan-Sept) and rental use (Oct-Dec).

[sss3d]

This honestly don't help at all.  Doesn't answer his question.

[TaxGuyBill]

His problem was that the expenses were being divided between rental use and person use.  It was doing that because he entered personal days, so entering zero personal days allowed all amounts entered to be used as 100% rental expenses.

[macmom]

Since this year was not completely for rental (not personal use) the way to allocate those expenses to the rental is to list them as "other" expenses. (You can see this on the actual forms.) You can list as many as needed.  However, if those expenses were for things that you used then perhaps letting TT allocate for rental/personal use is correct.

[indrgun]

I have the same exact case where I would like to list rental repairs expense incurred starting December last year.