Real estate mid-year conversion personal to rental bug

[bn1977]

When I enter mortgage interest for real estate that was converted from personal use to rental use on the 'Home Interest Worksheet', and I also indicate the days personal vs rental use on Schedule E (in my case, it is 155 personal, 210 rental), Schedule E correctly shows the breakdown of interest between rental and personal. However, Schedule A adds the Total Interest reported PLUS the personal use interest.

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Late entry: I couldn't find a way to delete this post. I addressed this by NOT entering the interest in the Home Interest Worksheet', and only entered it on Schedule E. To me, this wasn't clear in that the worksheet 'Note' did not clarify treatment of property that was converted mid-year.

[AmeliesUncle]

If you read that screen carefully, you only enter the number of days AFTER it was converted to a rental.

If there were no personal days after it was converted to a rental, then you enter zero personal days.  Then you will need to MANUALLY prorate the annual expense such as insurance, real estate tax, etc.

While it may SEEM like doing it the way you are doing it is working, it often causes errors and miscalculations.