Federal and State Schedule E discrepancy

[Hubby]

My PA Schedule E is flagged for me to provide data to a second property but I have no second property.  My Rental and Royalty Summary section on federal return is correct and only lists one property.  How can I fix PA schedule E to remove the second non-existent property?

[ReginaM]

Your state return is populated by data entered into your Federal Return, so you want to make sure that TurboTax is not showing a secondary rental property.  Here is how you can check while you are in TurboTax:

1. While in your Tax Home,
2. Select Search from the top right of your screen,
3. Enter Schedule E,
4. Select Jump to Schedule E,
5. Continue through the on-screen prompts, until you
6. see your Rental and Royalty Summary, 
7. Select Delete next to the secondary property.

[Hubby]

Thanks for your reply Regina.  As I explained in my statement I did go to the Rental and Royalty Summary for my federal return and that property is not there.  It was a property that I rented last year but not this year.  It has already been deleted but I can't yet get around the forced entries into the state return.  More help is appreciated.

[ReginaM]

Oh, I see.  Your State return has been populated with the property you disposed of last year.  Try this, 

1. While your are in your Tax Home,
2. Select State from the left side of your screen,
3. Select Your State Return,
4. Follow through the On-Screen Prompts until you get to your Rental & Royalty Property Summary.

It should be here on this screen for you to delete.

Hopefully, this does it!

[Hubby]

No luck.  The property is not listed in the state Rental and Royalty Summary.  There is one property listed and this is a valid rental property that is entered as property A on Schedule E.

The pink shaded boxes shown below for property B on Schedule E are the ones that are preventing me from finishing.  The form believes I have a second rental property to enter.  

Any more suggestions?

[JulieS · Accepted solution]

You can fix this by deleting the Pennsylvania Schedule E. Make sure you are not deleting your Federal Schedule E. Here is how:

1. Click on Tax Tools near the bottom of the left side menu.
2. Select Tools.
3. Click on Delete a form.
4. Scroll down to Pennsylvania Return.
5. Look for Schedule E (Schedule E, Copy 1) under Pennsylvania Return, click Delete to the right.
6. Confirm that you want to delete the form.

Because you still have a Federal Schedule E, the PA form will regenerate right away, but without the phantom property from last year. 

[Hubby]

Thank you Julie, that worked.