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Rental Property Schedule E Deducting for Personal Use

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March 27, 2025
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For tax year 2024, I hired a management company to rent my beach condo and made it available for rent all year, 365 days. The management company only found renters for 180 days during the year. It was also utilized for personal use for 32 days, with family members using it, but only paying for the cleaning fee. The condo was completely vacant for 153 days. This leads to a calculation of 17% personal use (32/180) and 83% rentals for the year as I understand it. Am I correct in assuming that 17% will then be deducted from each expense entry that I am reporting on Schedule E due to the personal use being greater than 10% of the days it was rented out at fair market rates? Will 180 be placed in box 2a to indicate the “Fair Rental Days”?

Thanks in advance for your assist with this!!

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MAK70

Yes, the deductions will be divided for the rental with your personal use percentage.

If you use the dwelling unit for both rental and personal purposes, you generally must divide your total expenses between the rental use and the personal use based on the number of days used for each purpose. You won't be able to deduct your rental expense in excess of the gross rental income limitation (your gross rental income less the rental portion of mortgage interest, real estate taxes, casualty losses, and rental expenses like realtors' fees and advertising costs). However, you may be able to carry forward some of these rental expenses to the next year, subject to the gross rental income limitation for that year. Source: Topic no. 415, Renting residential and vacation property

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MedicaidQsAuthor

Thanks- a couple of follow-ups- So are you saying that if the total income for the rental is $30,000, for example, and the property taxes are $5000, your total expenses listed on Schedule E cannot be more than $25000?

Also, I should put 180 for Schedule E Lines 2a?

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MAK70

Correct- your deductions are limited to your income- but they do carryforward so you may be able to take advantage of them in future years. With the vacation property, your deductions are limited to "operating expenses". If you look at your Schedule E Worksheet in TurboTax (I did a partial screen shot for your reference I just threw some random number in but you can see the expenses in Col. D that are deductible). @MedicaidQs