How does TurboTax handle part of home rental for part of time?

[AbrahamT]

So basically, it's 43% of the 60% of the total expense amount or 43% of approximately 50% of the total.  From your earlier input it sounds like app. 50% when you say 180 days rented from 365 days?

[rachelzoe]

Thank you for posting this! Your experience is consistent with mine. I've been battling this for hours and hours with Turbo Tax support and nobody can fix it and I keep getting sent in the same circular review process and have the exact same situation. 

[taxpayer34]

I have the same problem. I ended up just pretending there were two separate properties (the rented room and the rest of the property) and prorating the amounts. The room I rented out constituted 9% of the property, so I used 9% of all values in schedule E, and used the other 91% under deductions and credits (except I used the full amount when listing the total remaining balance in case I'd hit some maximum while calculating deductions).

I don't know if that's the right way to do it, but one of the messages early in the Schedule E wizard made it seem like it was. If someone could weigh in that would be great, I also intend to add a comment to the return explaining what I did and why.