It keeps asking how many days my home was rented. It wont accept 0. I deleted schedule E from both state and federal but it still is asking the same question. Help?

[markmanuel57-aol]

I did have rental income from 2020 but not 2021. It wont let me efile my return and keeps asking for how many days the home was rented,. I put 0 in the box but keeps saying it needs to be fixed. Schedule e has been deleted but it still wants the info on rental days.

[PatriciaV]

Deleting Schedule E will not remove your rental property from your return. Because you have rental assets, the schedule will be recreated after you delete it.

If you reported the rental property last year, but had no activity this tax year, you have two choices:

1. Report that you no longer rent the property. This will remove all the history from TurboTax (assets & depreciation), which you would need to re-enter if you rented the property in the future.

2. Report that you rented it for 1 day with no income. You can do this if the property was available to be rented (was not used for another purpose), but you had no tenants. You also can deduct "holding" expenses and depreciation for the property during this period.

[markmanuel57-aol]

Thank you for your reply...If you don't mind me asking, how do I report that I no longer rent the property? I have no deductions and show 0 rent days, you would think that would be enough to trigger this. 

[VolvoGirl]

What did you do with it?  Did you sell it?

[markmanuel57-aol]

I moved into the house April 2020.