How to manually change Asset Entry Worksheet

[dazz13]

Due to a 1031 exchange a rental property has inherited the deprecation schedule of the relinquished property. The number of years depreciation remaining for the new property is therefore not 27.5 years. How do I change this? The Asset Entry Worksheet doesn't allow me to edit the number of years.

[dazz13]

None of those threads help with my issue.

[AmeliesUncle · Accepted solution]

You continue to depreciate the 'old' house  (carryover Basis) using the original "placed in service" date of the 'old' house.  That will 'finish' depreciating that part.

You then create a second asset to depreciate the 'extra' money paid for the new property, using the new property's placed in service date.

[dazz13]

The only workaround I could think of is to work with the 27.5 years number and adjust the amount paid in previous years to twist TurboTax's arm to force it to produce the correct depreciation amount. This way, the details of the calculation are wrong but the end result is correct.

[dazz13]

I like AmeliesUncle's answer: use the original placed in service date (it's weird to have a placed in service date for a property years before the property was purchased ... but, oh well).